126gp
80gp
46gp
+44gp
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Price history
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Volume · units traded
- 30D low
- 80
- 30D high
- 126
- Volatility
- 44.7%
Flip calculator
Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax
+44gp
+44 per item · +55.00% ROI
- Capital required
- 80 gp
- Gross revenue
- 126 gp
- GE tax (2%, 2/item)
- − 2 gp
- Break-even sell
- 81 gp
Item data
- High alchemy
- 3 gp97.6% below market
- Low alchemy
- 2 gp
- Shop value
- 5 gp
- Weight
- 0.02 kg
- Stack / note
- Not stackable · noteable
- Released
- Feb 28, 2001
About Yellow dye
The Yellow dye is a free-to-play item in Old School RuneScape.
"A little bottle of yellow dye"
Over the last 30 days it traded between 143 and 378 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 216 gp. About 2,783 units changed hands per day. The price is down 18.6% across that window. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 150 every 4 hours. Selling one at the average price costs 4 gp in Grand Exchange tax.
Casting High Level Alchemy returns 3 gp, which is 98.6% below the 30-day average price, so alching a bought one loses money.
How to get Yellow dye
Only Shelves (Getting Ahead) (Always) drops Yellow dye. 3 shops sell it, including Lletya Seamstress and Guinevere's Dyes. It can be made from Onion and Coins.
Dropped by
| Monster | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Shelves (Getting Ahead) | Always | 1 |
Sold in shops
| Shop | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| Lletya Seamstress | 6 gp | 10 |
| Guinevere's Dyes | 6 gp | 10 |
| Dyes to Die For | 6 gp | 10 |
Recipes
Where this item appears in crafting and processing.
Used to make
- 1× Green dye from 1× Blue dye, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Orange dye from 1× Red dye, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Wig from 1× Wig, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Black cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Blue cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Green cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Orange cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Pink cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Purple cape, 1× Yellow dye
- 1× Yellow cape from 1× Red cape, 1× Yellow dye
Yellow dye appears in 11 recipes in total.
Yellow dye price history
Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.
| Month | Average | Low | High | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 202612d | 169 | 143 | 278 | 37,682 |
| September 2026 | 234 | 148 | 378 | 74,310 |
| August 2026 | 157 | 58 | 294 | 88,348 |
| July 2026 | 166 | 97 | 254 | 96,350 |
| June 202621d | 188 | 128 | 253 | 48,610 |
| May 20262d | 248 | 207 | 289 | 4,136 |
| April 20261d | 274 | 274 | 274 | 1,609 |
| March 2026 | 229 | 122 | 375 | 43,763 |
| February 2026 | 236 | 154 | 324 | 18,496 |
| January 2026 | 261 | 128 | 775 | 17,746 |
Across 10 months of recorded prices Yellow dye ranged from 58 gp in August 2026 to 775 gp in January 2026, measured over 218 trading days.
The 30-day average of 216 gp sits in the lower third of that range.
All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.
