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Rune battleaxe

Rune battleaxe

A vicious looking axe.

Free-to-playBuy limit 70WeaponsWeapon
Insta-buy

24,538gp

Insta-sell

24,538gp

Spread

0gp

0.00%
Margin

-490gp

-2.00% ROI
Volume

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Price history

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Volume · units traded

30D low
24,538
30D high
24,538
Volatility
0.0%

Flip calculator

Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax

gp
gp
units
Net profitLoss

-490gp

-490 per item · -2.00% ROI

Tax puts break-even at 25,038 gp.

Capital required
24,538 gp
Gross revenue
24,538 gp
GE tax (2%, 490/item)
− 490 gp
Break-even sell
25,038 gp

Item data

High alchemy
24,960 gp1.7% above market
Low alchemy
16,640 gp
Shop value
41,600 gp
Weight
2.721 kg
Skill / type
Melee
Combat
Melee · Axe · 6 ticks
Requires
Smithing 95
Stack / note
Not stackable · noteable
Released
Aug 13, 2001

About Rune battleaxe

The Rune battleaxe is a free-to-play weapon in Old School RuneScape.

"A vicious looking axe"

Over the last 30 days it traded between 24,351 and 24,689 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 24,494 gp. About 23,502 units changed hands per day. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 70 every 4 hours. Selling one at the average price costs 489 gp in Grand Exchange tax.

Casting High Level Alchemy returns 24,960 gp, which is 1.9% above the 30-day average price, so buying and alching it covers its own cost before the nature rune.

How to get Rune battleaxe

94 monsters drop Rune battleaxe, most commonly Tarnished battleaxe (5/10), Lost camphor crate (1/8) and Mithril dragon (8/128). It can be made from Runite bar.

Dropped by

MonsterRarityQuantity
Tarnished battleaxe5/101
Lost camphor crate1/81
Mithril dragon8/1281
Scurrius6/1001
Reward casket (hard)1/27.11
Zombie Pirate's Locker6/1732
Chest (Obor's lair)4/1181
Monumental chest1/304 (noted)
Barbarian Assault/Gambles1/321
Thermonuclear smoke devil3/1071
Chaos Elemental3/1281
Grotesque Guardians3/1421
Basilisk Knight1/521
Basilisk Sentinel1/521
Zombie pirate6/3781
Mutated Terrorbird1/641
Skeletal Wyvern2/1281
Warped Terrorbird1/641
Ancient Wyvern2/1321
Shadow Wyrm1/761

74 further monsters drop it less commonly.

Recipes

Where this item appears in crafting and processing.

Made from

Rune battleaxe price history

Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.

Monthly average, low and high price of Rune battleaxe on the Grand Exchange
MonthAverageLowHighVolume
October 202612d24,53824,43424,628333,861
September 202624,41824,14124,689619,379
August 202624,56024,30324,707804,984
July 202624,35024,26424,558953,373
June 202621d24,40324,25924,490383,186
May 20262d24,61824,50624,72931,763
April 20261d24,59724,59724,59710,779
March 202624,53224,43224,744205,566
February 202624,71724,60124,87632,113
January 202624,63924,42224,75117,856

Across 10 months of recorded prices Rune battleaxe ranged from 24,141 gp in September 2026 to 24,876 gp in February 2026, measured over 218 trading days.

The 30-day average of 24,494 gp sits around the middle of that range.

All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.