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Compost

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Compost
P2P F Buy limit: 2,000 per 4 hours
Live flip margin +18 GP
257.1% ROI per flip · up to 36.0K GP per buy-limit cycle
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If you bought your full buy limit on Compost right now, you'd clear roughly 36.0K GP after the 2% GE tax. That's the ceiling. The actual margin shifts every few minutes, especially after Wednesday updates and weekend supply spikes.

Good for plants, helps them grow. Members-only on the GE. Buy limit 2,000 per 4 hours.

How Compost trades on the Grand Exchange

A generous buy limit here means you can fill a full cycle at once and let it sell in the background. Because it is members-only, it is only visible on the Grand Exchange for P2P accounts. Over the last hour its margin has held fairly steady.

Live flip margin

Buy at
7
Sell at
25
Margin (after tax)
+18
ROI
+257.1%
Daily volume
99.8K
Profit per limit
36.0K
High alch
12
Flip grade
F
Margin stability
Stable

Don't miss the next move on Compost

The margin can swing 30% within an hour after an OSRS update or a weekend supply shift. Set a price alert in GE IQ and you'll get pinged the second it crosses your target, no manual checking needed.

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Prices snapshot from the official RuneScape Wiki API. Refreshed at build time: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:23:49 GMT. Open the tool for live prices that refresh every two minutes.

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