548gp
530gp
18gp
+8gp
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Price history
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Volume · units traded
- 30D low
- 530
- 30D high
- 548
- Volatility
- 3.3%
Flip calculator
Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax
+8gp
+8 per item · +1.51% ROI
- Capital required
- 530 gp
- Gross revenue
- 548 gp
- GE tax (2%, 10/item)
- − 10 gp
- Break-even sell
- 540 gp
Item data
- High alchemy
- 60 gp89.1% below market
- Low alchemy
- 40 gp
- Shop value
- 100 gp
- Weight
- 1.814 kg
- Skill / type
- Smithing
- Requires
- Smithing 30, Magic 43
- Stack / note
- Not stackable · noteable
- Released
- Jan 4, 2001
About Steel bar
The Steel bar is a free-to-play skilling resource in Old School RuneScape.
"It's a bar of steel"
Over the last 30 days it traded between 531 and 671 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 600 gp. About 4,194,428 units changed hands per day. The price is down 11.2% across that window. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 10,000 every 4 hours. Selling one at the average price costs 12 gp in Grand Exchange tax.
Casting High Level Alchemy returns 60 gp, which is 90.0% below the 30-day average price, so alching a bought one loses money.
How to get Steel bar
70 monsters drop Steel bar, most commonly Marlo's crate (Always), Steel dragon (Always) and Supply crate (Mahogany Homes) (20/144). It can be made from Iron ore and Coal.
Dropped by
| Monster | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Marlo's crate | Always | 5 (noted) |
| Steel dragon | Always | 5 |
| Supply crate (Mahogany Homes) | 20/144 | 24 (noted) |
| Zalcano | 3/36 | 16–699 (noted) |
| Mystery box | 1/15 | 5 (noted) |
| Black Knight | 6/128 | 1 |
| Bryophyta | 6/128 | 1 |
| Gargoyle | 6/128 | 15 (noted) |
| Marble gargoyle | 6/128 | 15 (noted) |
| Moss giant | 6/128 | 1 |
| Angry barbarian spirit | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Bandit (Bandit Camp) | 5/128 | 1 |
| Berserk barbarian spirit | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Enraged barbarian spirit | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Skeleton brute | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Skeleton heavy | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Skeleton hero | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Skeleton thug | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Skeleton warlord | 5/128 | 3 (noted) |
| Brimstone chest | 2/60 | 300–500 (noted) |
50 further monsters drop it less commonly.
Recipes
Where this item appears in crafting and processing.
Used to make
- 1× Bullseye lantern (unf) from 1× Steel bar
- 4× Steel cannonball from 1× Steel bar
- 1× Chef's delight (flatpack) from 3× Oak plank, 2× Steel bar, 8× Chef's delight
- 1× Clockwork from 1× Steel bar
- 1× Dragon bitter (flatpack) from 3× Oak plank, 2× Steel bar, 8× Dragon bitter
- 1× Sextant from 1× Steel bar
- 1× Steel 2h sword from 3× Steel bar
- 15× Steel arrowtips from 1× Steel bar
- 1× Steel axe from 1× Steel bar
- 1× Steel battleaxe from 3× Steel bar
Steel bar appears in 35 recipes in total.
Steel bar price history
Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.
| Month | Average | Low | High | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 202612d | 563 | 531 | 597 | 69,661,874 |
| September 2026 | 604 | 540 | 671 | 88,231,624 |
| August 2026 | 575 | 537 | 596 | 114,612,435 |
| July 2026 | 575 | 555 | 623 | 130,669,180 |
| June 202621d | 618 | 551 | 652 | 51,472,566 |
| May 20262d | 558 | 549 | 566 | 5,337,593 |
| April 20261d | 569 | 569 | 569 | 2,343,135 |
| March 2026 | 568 | 529 | 635 | 28,623,698 |
| February 2026 | 594 | 554 | 631 | 3,251,173 |
| January 2026 | 539 | 486 | 574 | 17,856 |
Across 10 months of recorded prices Steel bar ranged from 486 gp in January 2026 to 671 gp in September 2026, measured over 218 trading days.
The 30-day average of 600 gp sits around the middle of that range.
All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.
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