Alchemy Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Alchemy at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

67 of the 517 Alchemy recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 267 lose money at current prices, 19 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 164 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

67of 517 recipes

Top estimated profit

412 gold53 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

22 gold40 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

164a price is missing, so none is guessed

Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitPotion of Frozen Fatality412 gold53 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 418 gold · keeps 47% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueSomniferous Incense274 gold76 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 11 gold · keeps 91% of the listed value
• Smallest material billMighty Arcane Protection Potion1 gold99 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 55 silver · keeps 74% of the listed value

Best Alchemy crafts right now

The 12 Alchemy crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Potion of Frozen Fatality	Potion of Frozen Fatality	418 gold72 silver	875 gold (5 per craft)	440 gold75 silver	412 gold53 silver	47%
Somniferous Incense	Somniferous Incense	11 gold34 silver	301 gold16 silver (2 per craft)	11 gold93 silver	274 gold76 silver	91%
Potion Absorption Inhibitor	Potion Absorption Inhibitor	749 gold76 silver	1,000 gold	789 gold22 silver	200 gold24 silver	20%
Stinky Bright Potion	Stinky Bright Potion	438 gold28 silver	650 gold (5 per craft)	461 gold34 silver	179 gold22 silver	28%
Infusion: Corpse Purification	Infusion: Corpse Purification	204 gold54 silver	320 gold	215 gold30 silver	99 gold46 silver	31%
Flask of Titanic Strength	Flask of Titanic Strength	192 gold1 silver	298 gold	202 gold11 silver	91 gold9 silver	31%
Superior Battle Potion of Strength	Superior Battle Potion of Strength	62 gold12 silver	149 gold97 silver	65 gold38 silver	80 gold35 silver	54%
Superior Battle Potion of Agility	Superior Battle Potion of Agility	62 gold81 silver	150 gold66 silver	66 gold11 silver	80 gold31 silver	53%
Greater Draenic Strength Flask	Greater Draenic Strength Flask	15 gold15 silver	100 gold (5 per craft)	15 gold94 silver	79 gold85 silver	80%
Superior Battle Potion of Stamina	Superior Battle Potion of Stamina	62 gold51 silver	139 gold55 silver	65 gold80 silver	70 gold6 silver	50%
Transmute: Pyrium Bar	Pyrium Bar	31 gold89 silver	105 gold (3 per craft)	33 gold56 silver	67 gold86 silver	65%
Transmute: Ametrine	Ametrine	99 gold20 silver	174 gold20 silver	104 gold42 silver	66 gold29 silver	38%