Iron bar

It's a bar of iron. Iron bar is a free-to-play item in the Ores & Bars market, used in Smithing and crafting metal equipment. Browse all Ores & Bars prices for live GE data.

Iron bar trades for 172 gp, making it one of the cheapest items on the GE. The buy-sell spread is 5 gp (2.9%), which indicates a tight spread common in actively traded items.

Iron bar is one of the most heavily traded items on the Grand Exchange with 31,282 trades recorded recently. With a buy limit of 10,000 every 4 hours, you can trade in large quantities per session.

Iron bar currently has a negative margin of -6 gp after tax, meaning instant flips would result in a loss at these prices. Margins fluctuate throughout the day — check back later or set a price alert to be notified when the margin turns positive. The price has dropped 3.9% in the last hour, which could signal a buying opportunity if the margin improves.

Iron bar has a high alchemy value of 16 gp, but at the current buy price it is not profitable to alch.

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