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Albion Online Upgrade Calculator
The Upgrade Calculator finds the cheapest way to get a piece of gear at the enchantment and quality you want. Instead of buying the item ready, it is often cheaper to buy a lower enchantment or quality, reroll the quality, and upgrade the enchantment with runes, souls, and relics. This tool compares the options for you, using real market data.
For example, if you want an Excellent 5.3 weapon, it might be cheaper to buy the 5.0 at Outstanding quality, reroll it to Excellent, and then enchant it up to 5.3 — or it might not. Now you'll know before you spend your silver.
🛒 Every Path Compared
See every way to reach your desired item: each source enchantment and quality combination with its buy price, reroll cost, and upgrade material cost, against buying the item ready.
🎲 Optional Quality Rerolls
Enable "Include Quality Rerolls" to also consider buying below your desired quality. You set a chance goal (like 99%), and the calculator shows the average and worst-case number of rerolls, and the average cost.
⚖️ Equivalent Tiers
Need "T8 equivalent" for a ZvZ build? Enable "Add Equivalent Tiers" to also compare items of equal power (4.4 = 5.3 = 6.2 = 7.1 = 8.0). The "You Get" column shows what each path ends at, so you can pick the cheapest item that is in spec.
📈 Your Prices or Market Prices
Prices come from Estimated Market Values or live sell/buy orders in the city of your choice — or enable "Use Best Price of All Cities" to let the calculator pick the cheapest royal city for every price. You can also type your own price for any item or material, and optionally add the 2.5% buy order setup fee.
💰 Savings at a Glance
Each option shows how much silver you save (or lose) compared to buying the item ready, with the cheapest path highlighted.
1. Pick Your Desired Item
Use the item selector to pick the exact item you want to end up with, including its tier and enchantment — for example, a T5.3 Hallowfall. If any item of equal power works for you — like a "T8 equivalent" requirement — enable "Add Equivalent Tiers" to compare the sibling tiers too.
2. Set Your Desired Quality
Choose the quality you want (like Excellent). To also consider buying lower qualities and rerolling, enable "Include Quality Rerolls" and set a chance goal. A higher goal means more rerolls and a higher average cost.
3. Choose Your Price Source
Use Estimated Market Values (requires login), or live sell/buy order prices from the city where you plan to shop — every market price shows a chip with the city it comes from. Enable "Use Best Price of All Cities" to pick the cheapest royal city for each price automatically. You can also type your own price on any row or material: prices are marked "Auto" when they come from market data and "Manual" when you typed them. Clicking a "Manual" chip reverts that price, and the button next to Refresh Prices removes all manual prices at once.
4. Read the Table
Each row is one way to get your item: buy at that enchantment and quality, reroll the quality if needed, then upgrade to your target enchantment. The cheapest option is highlighted, and the savings column shows the difference against buying the item ready.
Avg and Up To
Rerolls are random, so the tool shows two numbers: avg is the average number of rerolls needed to reach your desired quality, and up to is how many you might need on an unlucky streak before reaching your chance goal. All reroll costs in the table are averages: a lucky item costs less, an unlucky one costs more.
The Breakdown Table
The info icon next to the rerolls shows a round-by-round breakdown:
- Chance to Reroll is the chance that round actually happens — that your item is still below the desired quality and you pay for another reroll. The first round is always 100%.
- Avg Cost is that chance multiplied by the price of a reroll in that round. One reroll costs the item value times a modifier that grows with the item's current quality, which is why a later round can cost more on average than an earlier one even though it is less likely to happen.
The Avg Cost column adds up to the "Avg total" used in the table.
- Quality is kept when you upgrade an enchantment, and rerolling is cheaper at lower enchantments because the reroll cost scales with item value — so reroll first, then upgrade.
- Tier and enchantment are equivalent in power (4.4 = 5.3 = 6.2 = 7.1 = 8.0). Enable "Add Equivalent Tiers" to also compare buying and upgrading the sibling items — sometimes a 7.1 is cheaper than the 8.0 you wanted, and it is just as good for a "T8 equivalent" build requirement.
- Reroll costs are averages: a lucky item costs less, an unlucky one costs more.
- If you already own some runes, souls, or relics, set their price to what they are worth to you (or zero) in the material prices section to see your real out-of-pocket cost.
- Buying a quality above your target is also compared — sometimes a Masterpiece sells for barely more than an Excellent.
- Enchantment .4 items cannot be reached by upgrading, so for those the tool only compares qualities.
- Use the "Hide Missing Prices" option when market data is sparse for the item you picked, or type a manual price to complete a row.
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