Herb Run Profit Calculator

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Ranking every herb at GE prices…

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Herbs and XP for each herb are in the list below.

Herbs per patch, on average, after disease. Unprotected patches die about 7% of runs with ultracompost. disease-free diary boost: more herbs your run

Diaries Not set: counted as none.

Kandarin (Catherby)

Compost

Tools

Every herb at your Farming level

Per run, on average, with your patches. Tap a herb to plan it.

About herb runs

A herb run is a Farming loop: you plant herb seeds in your herb patches, do something else for about 80 minutes while they grow, then pick the grimy herbs and sell or use them. Each seed has a number of harvest lives set by your compost, and every pick has a chance to save a life, which rises with your Farming level, magic secateurs, the Farming cape and some diaries. Disease can kill a patch unless it is protected. This calculator compares every herb's average profit and XP per run for your level and patches, at GE prices with their time, after the GE tax.

Compost, secateurs, diaries and disease

Compost sets the harvest lives: 3 with none, 4 with compost, 5 with supercompost and 6 with ultracompost. It also lowers disease: each of the three growth stages has a 27/128 chance with no compost, 14/128 with compost, 6/128 with supercompost and 3/128 with ultracompost. Magic secateurs add 10% to the chance to save a life and the Farming cape adds 5% at level 99.

Two diaries matter here, and they do different things. The Kourend & Kebos Easy Diary makes the Hosidius patch disease-free. The Kourend & Kebos Hard Diary gives more herbs at Hosidius and the Farming Guild. The Kandarin Diary gives more herbs at Catherby. Troll Stronghold, Weiss and Harmony Island are always disease-free, and Civitas illa Fortis is disease-free at Champion rank.

What this run does not count

  • Travel and run time. No gp per hour.
  • Curing. A diseased patch counts as dead.
  • Attas and Iasor anima plants, Resurrect Crops and the bottomless compost bucket.
  • Cleaning herbs and Herblore XP. Herbs are sold grimy.
  • Goutweed (no GE price).
  • Which patches you have unlocked. Turn off any patch you don't have.
How this is worked out
  • Each seed gives 3 harvest lives plus 1 per compost tier. Herbs per patch = lives ÷ (1 − chance to save). Farming (OSRS Wiki, rev 15366981).
  • Chance to save uses the game's rounding since December 2023. The Wiki herb calculator still uses the older rule, so its yields can be up to about 1.5% lower.
  • Disease: 3/128 per growth stage with ultracompost, 3 stages. Disease (Farming) (rev 15215319).
  • Hosidius: disease-free with Kourend & Kebos Easy; +10 to both chance-to-save constants with Kourend & Kebos Hard. The Farming Guild gets the same +10 with Hard.
  • Diary boost: added as a whole number to the chance to save (a Jagex developer, 2023). An older Jagex statement describes a percentage. This page may be up to 11.6% high on diary patches.
  • Huasca's low chance-to-save constant (58) is the Wiki's own estimate.
  • Planting XP is paid on every patch, including one that dies (game update, 3 June 2026). Compost XP is counted per patch.
  • Prices: seeds and compost at each item's instant-buy price, herbs at instant-sell less the 2% GE tax. Each price shows its own last trade time. A price with no trade in 48 hours is not used. The Wiki herb calculator leaves out the GE tax, so our profit is about 2% lower.
  • Yield is an average. A single run can give more or fewer herbs.

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Herb run FAQ

Which herb is most profitable to farm right now?
It changes with GE prices, so no fixed answer holds for long. The calculator ranks every herb by profit per run after seeds, compost and the 2% GE tax, and shows the time of each price it uses.
How many herbs does one herb patch give?
It depends on compost, Farming level, tools and disease. With ultracompost, magic secateurs and the Farming cape at Farming 99, one unprotected patch gives about 8.8 herbs on average. The amount varies from run to run.
Does Farming level increase herb yield?
Yes. A higher level raises your chance to save a harvest life. A ranarr patch with ultracompost and magic secateurs gives about 7.2 herbs on average at Farming 32 and about 8.6 at Farming 99.
Do magic secateurs and the Farming cape give more herbs?
Yes. Magic secateurs add 10% to your chance to save a harvest life, and the Farming cape adds 5% at 99 Farming. At Farming 85 with ultracompost, secateurs raise a toadflax patch from about 7.9 to 8.3 herbs on average.
Which herb patches are disease-free?
Troll Stronghold, Weiss, Harmony Island (unlocked with the Morytania Elite Diary), Hosidius (after the Kourend & Kebos Easy Diary) and Civitas illa Fortis (at Champion rank). Herbs there never die from disease. The Kourend & Kebos Hard Diary does something different: it adds more herbs at Hosidius and the Farming Guild.
Is ultracompost worth it over supercompost?
Ultracompost gives 6 harvest lives instead of 5, and an unprotected patch dies about 7% of the time instead of about 13%. At Farming 85 with magic secateurs, a toadflax patch gives about 8.3 herbs on average instead of 6.4. The profit line shows whether the extra cost pays at current prices.

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