Knowing what's profitable to flip is only half the problem. The other half is figuring out what actually fits your bank, given that every item has a buy limit and a real ceiling on how much of it trades. That's the gap the Budget planner is built to close.

How it works

You enter how much GP you have to work with, and the tool ranks every live item by capital efficiency — profit per gold tied up — then allocates your budget down that list. Each item is capped at whichever is lower: its 4-hour buy limit, or a realistic share of its recent trading volume. That second cap matters — it stops the plan from ever recommending more of an item than the market could plausibly absorb.

Say you have 5,000,000 gp. Instead of guessing, the planner might allocate 2,000,000 gp to one item at its buy limit, 1,800,000 to a second, and the rest to a third — with the exact quantities, costs, and after-tax profit spelled out as a shopping list.

What you get back

  • Estimated profit for one full 4-hour buy-limit cycle.
  • Total capital actually deployed, and what's left over.
  • A line-by-line table: item, buy price, sell price, quantity, cost, and profit — click any row to open that item directly.

Treat it as a snapshot, not a fixed plan

The plan the Budget tool hands you reflects prices and volume at the exact moment you generate it — and the market doesn't stand still. If you don't act on it for a few hours, or if a couple of the recommended items get bought up by other flippers first, re-running the planner takes a few seconds and gives you a fresh allocation based on current conditions. Treat it as something to regenerate each time you're about to commit capital, not a plan to save and follow days later.

What the tool intentionally doesn't do

The Budget planner won't predict where prices are headed, and it doesn't know how much attention you personally have available to manage multiple flips at once — it optimizes for capital efficiency given a snapshot of current prices and volume, nothing more. It also can't guarantee your offers will fill at the exact prices shown, since the market keeps moving after you generate the plan. Understanding these boundaries is part of using the tool well — it's a strong starting point for a decision, not a promise about the future.

Combining Budget with Watchlist

Adjusting the liquidity filter to match your style

The Budget planner's liquidity setting changes what kind of plan you get, and it's worth adjusting deliberately rather than leaving it on a default. A stricter liquidity filter produces a more conservative plan built entirely around items that fill quickly and reliably, at the cost of potentially skipping over higher-margin but thinner-volume opportunities. A looser filter opens up more of those higher-margin possibilities, but with a real chance some of the recommended quantity takes longer to actually sell. Neither setting is objectively correct — it depends on whether you'd rather have certainty or a shot at a bigger number.

Once you have a plan, adding the recommended items to your Watchlist with a price alert lets you act on it without needing to babysit the market waiting for a good entry. Rather than committing capital the instant the plan is generated, setting alerts near the plan's suggested buy prices means you're notified the moment conditions match what the tool recommended — combining the planning step with the timing step instead of treating them as two separate, disconnected tasks.

It's free to use, filters by liquidity and members/F2P, and — like every figure on the tracker — the profit numbers are net of the current GE tax. Treat them as a strong estimate rather than a guarantee, since prices and fill times move; but it turns "what should I flip with this much gold" from a guessing game into a concrete plan in a few seconds.

It's a tool meant to remove guesswork from a specific, recurring question — not a substitute for understanding why an item made the list, which is worth glancing at before you commit, especially the first few times you use it.