OSRS Bond Price in November 2026 and What It Buys

The OSRS bond price on 6 November 2026 sits at about 10.5 million coins on the official Grand Exchange guide, with live trades on the wiki's real-time price feed landing between roughly 10.5 million and 11 million. That is well below where bonds traded for most of the past year, and the official guide shows the price down 12 percent over 30 days and 26 percent over 180 days. Below you will find what a bond costs in real money, what it buys, how the price has moved since late 2025, and the bond changes Jagex shipped this month.

We checked this against the official Grand Exchange item database, the OSRS Wiki's bond page and real-time price history, and Jagex's November 2026 news posts.

What a Bond Costs Right Now

There are two prices to keep in mind. The in-game price is set by players on the Grand Exchange, and on 6 November 2026 the official guide price was 10.5 million coins. The wiki's real-time feed, which tracks actual instant buys and sells, showed recent trades at 10,998,000 coins on the high side and 10,500,672 on the low side. Guide prices lag behind live trading, so expect to pay somewhere in that band rather than an exact figure.

The real-money price is set by Jagex. Since the membership and bond price change posted on 10 March 2026, one bond costs 9.99 US dollars, with bundles of 3 bonds for 29.95, 5 for 48.99, 10 for 96.99 and 20 for 192.99. The same post set the US 1-month membership at 14.99 and the 12-month plan at 10.99 per month, with the new prices applying to renewals from 9 April 2026.

When you buy a bond with real money, it arrives in your bond pouch as a tradeable bond. You can redeem it yourself, sell it on the Grand Exchange, or give it to another player. Any of those transfers turns the bond untradeable for whoever receives it, which matters if you plan to resell later.

How the Price Moved Over the Past Year

The wiki's daily price history gives a clear picture of the last twelve months. Bonds were trading around 14 million coins in late 2025, peaked above 16 million in mid-January 2026, and then slid in stages through the summer and autumn. The table below uses the wiki's daily average high and low instant-trade prices on selected dates.

Old school bond daily average prices (OSRS Wiki real-time data)

Date	Avg high (coins)	Avg low (coins)
1 Dec 2025	14,314,021	14,267,939
15 Jan 2026	16,357,590	16,287,466
1 Mar 2026	12,699,351	12,601,467
1 May 2026	14,535,699	14,510,044
1 Jul 2026	11,985,749	11,877,585
1 Sep 2026	11,322,311	11,393,107
15 Oct 2026	11,609,359	11,344,734
1 Nov 2026	9,613,318	9,384,725
4 Nov 2026	10,869,083	10,662,984

Two things stand out. First, the price moves a lot, often by a million coins or more within a few weeks, so timing your purchase can save real gold. Second, the start of November saw a sharp dip under 10 million followed by a quick rebound to around 10.9 million within days. We are not going to guess at the cause; the data simply shows that short dips do happen and tend not to last.

If you are buying for membership, it rarely pays to wait for a perfect bottom. Watch the price for a few days, place an offer near the lower end of the recent range, and adjust if it does not fill.

What One Bond Buys

A bond's main job is membership, and it works for both Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3. Redeeming one bond gives 14 days. Redeeming several at once adds bonus time: 2 bonds give 29 days, 3 bonds give 45 days, and 20 bonds give a 12-month membership, which the wiki notes is 85 days more than redeeming 20 bonds separately.

That makes per-day costs easy to estimate. At about 10.5 million coins per bond, a single bond works out to roughly 750,000 coins per day of membership. Three bonds for 45 days bring it to about 700,000 a day, and the 20-bond yearly option drops it to around 575,000 a day, though it needs more than 200 million coins up front. If you can comfortably earn more than that per day of play, gold membership is sustainable; our money making guide lays out methods by requirement so you can check.

Bonds have one other use: skipping the name change cooldown. Members can change their display name once every 28 days for free, and redeeming a bond removes that wait. Our name change guide covers how that interacts with the name release Jagex started this month.

Tradeable, Untradeable and Converting

An untradeable bond can be turned back into a tradeable one through the bond pouch by paying 10 percent of a tradeable bond's current Grand Exchange value. At today's price that fee is a little over a million coins. Because of that fee, buying a bond and instantly reselling it is usually a loss, although the wiki notes that converting and holding for a later price rise can sometimes work.

A few other rules are worth knowing. The bond pouch holds up to 100 bonds, an increase from 20 made in January 2025. Bonds can never be dropped, destroyed, alchemized or sold to shops, and they are always kept on death, even in the Wilderness. You can only buy or sell one bond per Grand Exchange slot, and bonds are exempt from the Grand Exchange tax, so sellers keep the full sale price.

Ironmen are treated differently. Bonds are the only item an Ironman can buy on the Grand Exchange, through a special interface that does not allow selling, and since April 2025 Ironmen can also give bonds to other players. Our Ironman guide covers the rest of the mode's trading limits.

Bond Changes in November 2026

The 3 November 2026 game update added the ability to use a bond to apply membership to another character on the same Jagex Account. Jagex's post is clear that this applies membership without giving the other character the bond itself, and says the team is still working to make further bond transfer options fully available.

That feature ties into the wider move to Jagex Accounts. According to Jagex, the full migration begins on 17 November 2026, when all remaining legacy accounts must make a one-time upgrade before they can log in again. Character names are preserved, and the cap on characters per Jagex Account has been raised to 50. If you manage several characters, upgrading early means you can start moving membership between them from one place.

Leagues are another reason people buy bonds. Past Leagues have been open to accounts with membership, so if you are planning around the next one, factor in at least two months of membership; our Leagues guide covers what is known about the next season.

Buying Bonds Without Getting Burned

The only approved ways to get bonds are buying them from Jagex, buying them from other players through the Grand Exchange or a normal trade, or receiving them as a gift. Never pay an outside party real money for gold to buy bonds. Jagex's Rules of RuneScape define real-world trading as buying or selling, for real money or anything of value, things that relate to Jagex accounts, and accounts caught doing it can be banned.

Your bond pouch is part of the account rather than an item in your bank, and you reach it through the Account Management tab. If the pouch is full and you buy more bonds through the in-game store, the game refuses the purchase with a message asking you to empty it first. Bonds bought on the website while the pouch is full are not lost; they are held and delivered the next time you log in with enough free space, along with a message explaining the delay.

Gifting is simple and does not need a trade window. Using a tradeable bond on another player hands it over for free, and that works on Ironmen too. The receiver gets an untradeable bond, so if they want to sell it rather than redeem it, they pay the 10 percent conversion fee first. From the receiver's side, converting and selling a gifted bond therefore nets roughly 90 percent of its market value. If you are buying a bond with coins to give to a friend, budget about 110 percent of the price, since the bond you buy from the Grand Exchange must be converted back to tradeable before you can pass it on. Older advice about turning bonds into membership passcodes is out of date: Jagex removed the ability to create passcodes with bonds in July 2024.

For a simple routine, check the guide price and the recent range, set a buy offer slightly above the low end, and give it a little time. Remember that redeeming a bond in the last three minutes before a server reboot is blocked, so do not leave it until a system update is counting down.

Membership Versus a Head Start

A bond covers membership, but it does not cover the hours needed to build levels and a bank. Some players weighing that up look at our Old School RuneScape page, which lists accounts and changes its selection daily.

Read Jagex's position on that first. The Rules of RuneScape treat every account as usable only by the person who made it, bar transferring or lending it, and describe account selling as something Jagex has authorized for nobody. Bonds, by contrast, are Jagex's own product, sold through its store and the Grand Exchange.

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