OSRS Herb Cleaning Calculator

Does cleaning herbs make money?

Cleaning pays when a clean herb sells for more than its grimy one after the 2% tax. The gap is usually small, from a few coins to a few hundred, so the money comes from volume: thousands of herbs an hour, each one a single click. The table above prices every herb right now at your level. The Grand Exchange sells each grimy herb in lots of 11,000 to 13,000 every four hours, which caps how many of one herb you can buy in a sitting. The GE tax calculator shows what the tax takes from any sale.

Every herb also gives Herblore experience as you clean it, from 1 for a golpar, found only in the Chambers of Xeric, to 15 for a torstol. The Herblore calculator plans levels from potions, which is where most Herblore experience comes from. To put the clean herbs into vials of water and sell those instead, use the unfinished potions calculator.

Zahur, in Nardah

Zahur, in the building north of the Nardah bank, cleans grimy herbs for 200 coins each. She cleans any herb whatever your level, which suits a player who has herbs but not the level, and having her clean one is an easy Desert diary task. She takes unnoted herbs, and noted ones too once you have the hard Desert diary, so a whole noted stack is cleaned in one go. She will not touch the jungle herbs from Jungle Potion. The achievement diaries calculator lists what the hard Desert diary needs.

Degrime

Degrime, on the Arceuus spellbook, cleans every grimy herb in your inventory with one cast. It needs 70 Magic and A Kingdom Divided, costs 4 earth and 2 nature runes, and gives 83 Magic experience a cast but only half the Herblore experience, rounded down. With an earth staff or a rune pouch you clean 27 herbs a cast, about 600 casts an hour. It works on the normal herbs only, not the jungle or raid herbs.

Ironmen, Hardcore Worlds and Deadman

Ironmen cannot use the Grand Exchange, so their herbs come from Farming and drops and what they clean is kept. For them the table ranks by Herblore experience an hour and counts only the coins they pay: Zahur's fee and runes from rune shops. Group ironmen are the same. An ultimate ironman cannot bank, so cleaning by hand means unnoting herbs at a bank and noting them again at a tool leprechaun, best done in the Farming Guild's north wing at 85 Farming or at the Hosidius vinery. With the hard Desert diary, Zahur cleans a noted stack and saves those trips.

Hardcore Worlds have their own economy and no experience boosts, so prices there are the main game's and marked with a "~". On the permanent Deadman world, 345, every experience drop is multiplied: 20 times at level 1 down to 10 times from 50 while protected, and half that once protection ends, with 2 times inside the Chambers of Xeric, which only an unprotected player can enter. Its Grand Exchange has no tax, and its prices are taken from the main game, marked with a "~".

Herb cleaning questions

Which herb is best to clean for money? It changes with prices. The table sorts every herb by profit an hour at your level, and the top row is the answer right now.

Is Degrime better than cleaning by hand? It cleans about 16,200 herbs an hour to the 5,000 of steady clicking, but each cast costs runes and the Herblore experience is halved. Pick a herb and the table of ways sets the two side by side.

Can I clean herbs I do not have the level for? Zahur will clean them for you, for 200 coins a herb.