Retail crafting

Crafting costs and profit

What each recipe’s reagents cost and what the crafted item sells for on the auction house, for every profession. Reagents are priced at the cheaper of the auction house and vendors; the sale price is the lowest listing, less the auction house’s 5% cut.

Prices from: Oct 25, 2026, 1:00 AM UTCRegion: US (commodities are shared across realms)

Most profitable now Every profession

Right now

Most profitable crafts.

From each profession’s newest expansion; only items with at least 10 for sale.

Recipe	Profession	Cost	Sells for, after the cut	Profit	For sale
Coiled Snake-Eye · rank 2	Engineering	46g50s	369g36s	+322g86s	150
Refine Bismuth	Mining	27g50s	187g15s	+159g65s	2,456
Tokka's Multi-Ward	Fishing	99g55s	188g99s30c	+89g44s30c	143
Illusory Adornment - Nature's Embrace · rank 2	Enchanting	4g57s	71g31s65c	+66g74s65c	682
Tasty Smoked Tetra · makes 2	Cooking	73g96s	134g82s40c	+60g86s40c	2,460
Null and Void Plate · makes 2	Cooking	30g83s	82g8s	+51g25s	12,308
Illusory Adornment - Voidtouched · rank 2	Enchanting	4g12s	33g25s	+29g13s	1,695
Composite Flora · rank 1 · makes 2	Alchemy	26g48s	51g30s	+24g82s	1,825
Crimson Calamari · rank 1 · makes 2	Cooking	160g2s	178g25s80c	+18g23s80c	2,861
Venom-Spiced Cutlets · makes 2	Cooking	78g70s	95g	+16g30s	797
Gleeful Glamour - Nightborne · rank 2	Enchanting	4g49s	17g73s65c	+13g24s65c	323
Gleeful Glamour - Night Elf · rank 2	Enchanting	4g49s	17g29s95c	+12g80s95c	639
Puffer Plate · makes 2	Cooking	33g51s	46g5s60c	+12g54s60c	6,549
Gleeful Glamour - Mechagnome · rank 2	Enchanting	4g2s	15g39s	+11g37s	3,789
Gleeful Glamour - Goblin · rank 2	Enchanting	4g2s	14g88s65c	+10g86s65c	238
Gleeful Glamour - Worgen · rank 2	Enchanting	4g49s	14g88s65c	+10g39s65c	369
Lightfused Mana Potion · rank 1 · makes 5	Alchemy	36g68s	47g2s50c	+10g34s50c	6,690
Sun-Seared Lumifin · makes 2	Cooking	4g85s	14g57s30c	+9g72s30c	23,725
Illusory Adornment - Blooming Light · rank 2	Enchanting	4g20s	13g54s70c	+9g34s70c	552
Gleeful Glamour - Gnome · rank 2	Enchanting	4g2s	13g29s5c	+9g27s5c	280
Blessed Pango Charm · rank 2	Leatherworking	95g62s	104g45s25c	+8g83s25c	1,161
Gleeful Glamour - Highmountain Tauren · rank 2	Enchanting	4g49s	13g28s10c	+8g79s10c	427
Gleeful Glamour - Haranir · rank 2	Enchanting	4g2s	12g52s10c	+8g50s10c	1,421
Gleeful Glamour - Dwarf · rank 2	Enchanting	4g2s	11g28s60c	+7g26s60c	499
Glitter Skewers · makes 2	Cooking	56g74s	63g32s70c	+6g58s70c	4,779

Professions

Every profession.

Each by expansion, with costs and profit per recipe.

Alchemy763 recipes · 12 expansions

Blacksmithing1,365 recipes · 12 expansions

Cooking560 recipes · 12 expansions

Enchanting221 recipes · 12 expansions

Engineering896 recipes · 12 expansions

Fishing6 recipes · 1 expansion

Herbalism7 recipes · 3 expansions

Inscription800 recipes · 12 expansions

Jewelcrafting1,220 recipes · 12 expansions

Leatherworking1,605 recipes · 12 expansions

Mining45 recipes · 7 expansions

Skinning33 recipes · 3 expansions

Tailoring1,178 recipes · 12 expansions

Source

Where this data comes from.

Read from Blizzard's official World of Warcraft API.

Data from Blizzard’s official World of Warcraft API, retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC. World of Warcraft and its game data are © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. NeedBeforeGreed isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard.

Recipes come from the Retail client’s own data (game version 12.1.0.69933), prices from Blizzard’s auction API every hour.

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