Pal Buy and Sell Values: Price Formula and Full Price List

Every Pal in Palworld carries a gold value, and it decides both what a merchant charges you for it and the pittance you get back when you sell one. This guide covers the price curve, the base value behind every Pal, what each merchant stock pool actually costs at its level band, and the handful of things that move the number.

How Pal Prices Work

Two things set the price: the Pal's own base value, which never changes, and its level, which multiplies that value. The multiplier starts at 1.65x at level 1 and climbs by 0.15 for every level, so a level 50 Pal costs 9x its base value — the same Pal is worth over five times more at 50 than it was at 1. Selling runs on the same curve but pays out one-twentieth of the buy price, which is why offloading Pals is a terrible way to make money and buying one is a real dent in your wallet.

The 20:1 gap between buying and selling is the single most important number here. Pocketpair has never posted the formula anywhere official, so treat the exact gold figures below as very close rather than to-the-coin — but the shape holds: levelling a Pal makes it dramatically more expensive to buy and only slightly less worthless to sell.

The Most Valuable Pals in Palworld

Base value does not track power the way you would expect — Jetragon and Frostallion sit mid-pack while a fish outclasses everything. Dumud Gild is the outlier by a mile at 19,900 base, which makes it the priciest Pal in the game to buy and the only one whose sale is worth thinking about at all. Turtacle Terra is the runner-up, then three Pals tie on a flat 10,000. Everything from Frostallion Noct down clusters in the 4,000s, so among legendaries the choice barely matters to your wallet.

Pal	Base value	Buy at Lv 50	Sell at Lv 50
Dumud Gild	19,900	179,100	8,955
Turtacle Terra	14,950	134,550	6,727
Menasting Terra	10,000	90,000	4,500
Warsect Terra	10,000	90,000	4,500
Astralym	10,000	90,000	4,500
Frostallion Noct	5,000	45,000	2,250
Panthalus	4,913	44,217	2,210
Frostallion	4,695	42,255	2,112
Shaolong	4,531	40,779	2,038
Jetragon	4,452	40,068	2,003
Dandilord	4,442	39,978	1,998
Silvance	4,436	39,924	1,996

The Cheapest Pals to Buy

At the bottom of the ladder, Chikipi and Swee tie at 313 base — under a thousand gold at level 10, which is the level band a roaming merchant carries them at. These are the Pals you buy to fill a Paldeck entry or to grab a specific work suitability without hunting for a spawn. The sell column tells the other half of the story: a low-tier Pal returns roughly 50 gold, so clearing bag space by selling twenty of them nets less than a single chest.

Pal	Base value	Buy at Lv 10	Sell at Lv 10
Swee	313	939	46
Chikipi	313	939	46
Teafant	355	1,065	53
Fuddler	358	1,074	53
Tocotoco	373	1,119	55
Killamari	376	1,128	56
Fuack	376	1,128	56
Muffly	385	1,155	57

Variants Cost Far More Than Their Base Forms

Elemental variants almost always carry a higher base value than the Pal they are a version of, and two of them are absurd about it. Turtacle Terra is worth 22.6 times what plain Turtacle is, and Dumud Gild exactly 20 times Dumud — those two are priced as trophies rather than as Pals. After that the premium drops off fast: Incineram Noct is only 1.5x its base form, and a few variants are actually worth *less* — Mau Cryst sells for 58% of what Mau does, which stings given Mau is the one that coughs up gold on a Ranch.

Variant	Base value	Base form	Its value	Premium
Turtacle Terra	14,950	Turtacle	661	22.6x
Dumud Gild	19,900	Dumud	995	20.0x
Menasting Terra	10,000	Menasting	2,469	4.1x
Warsect Terra	10,000	Warsect	2,913	3.4x
Gloopie Primo	1,612	Gloopie	577	2.8x
Croajiro Noct	1,254	Croajiro	584	2.1x
Woolipop Terra	836	Woolipop	502	1.7x
Incineram Noct	2,036	Incineram	1,325	1.5x

What Each Merchant Stock Pool Charges

Merchants do not sell every Pal — each one draws from a stock pool tied to a level band, and the band matters more than the Pal. The same Pal in a level 50–55 pool costs nearly double what it would in a level 20–30 pool. Below is every pool with its level range, how many Pals it can roll from, and the cheapest and priciest thing you can walk away with. Note the starter pool: 46 Pals deep and nothing in it breaks 8,800 gold, which makes it far and away the best place to fill Paldeck gaps.

Stock pool	Level band	Pals in pool	Cheapest	Priciest
Starter stock	Lv 5–10	46	Swee 704	Warsect 8,739
Early stock	Lv 10–15	10	Chikipi 939	Nitewing 3,795
Mid-game pool	Lv 20–30	11	Wispaw 3,721	Warsect 17,478
Volcano pool	Lv 30–35	8	Kelpsea Ignis 2,442	Vanwyrm 9,882
Fire-tier pool	Lv 35–40	9	Leezpunk Ignis 3,327	Moldron 21,832
Desert pool	Lv 40–45	8	Dazzi 4,620	Digtoise 13,010
High-level pool	Lv 42–48	8	Lovander 8,236	Relaxaurus Lux 23,359
Endgame pool	Lv 50–55	8	Foxcicle 13,887	Dualith 30,351

Endgame Stock: Level 50–55 Prices

This is the most expensive shelf in the game and the one worth saving for, because the Pals on it arrive at a level you would otherwise grind to. Dualith tops it at up to 30,351 gold — more than three Mimog kills' worth of coin for a single purchase. Quivern and Cryolinx are the value picks here if you want a mount and a Cooling worker respectively without paying Dualith money, and Foxcicle is the cheapest way onto the shelf at all.

Pal	Base value	Buy price (Lv 50–55)
Dualith	3,113	28,017 – 30,351
Wumpo	2,591	23,319 – 25,262
Mammorest Cryst	2,424	21,816 – 23,634
Icelyn	2,277	20,493 – 22,200
Quivern	2,081	18,729 – 20,289
Cryolinx	1,987	17,883 – 19,373
Lunaris	1,845	16,605 – 17,988
Foxcicle	1,543	13,887 – 15,044

Desert Stock: Level 40–45 Prices

The desert shelf is the best mid-late buy in the game per gold spent. Digtoise is the priciest at up to 13,010, and it is also the one to actually buy — a level 40+ Mining specialist saves you an enormous amount of ore grinding. Dinossom Lux is a hair cheaper and doubles as a mount, while Dazzi at 4,620 is the cheapest way to get a high-level Pal out of any shop.

Pal	Base value	Buy price (Lv 40–45)
Digtoise	1,577	11,827 – 13,010
Dinossom Lux	1,543	11,572 – 12,729
Gorirat Terra	1,284	9,630 – 10,593
Surfent Terra	1,205	9,037 – 9,941
Dazemu	896	6,720 – 7,392
Cawgnito	770	5,775 – 6,352
Needoll	702	5,265 – 5,791
Dazzi	616	4,620 – 5,082

Early Stock: Level 10–15 Prices

This is the shelf you will see first, and it is a genuinely good deal for a new save. Nitewing at under 3,800 gold is the standout — an early flying mount for less than a mid-game weapon costs to craft. Eikthyrdeer is the ground-mount equivalent, and everything under it is base-worker filler you can catch yourself in an afternoon.

Pal	Base value	Buy price (Lv 10–15)
Nitewing	1,012	3,036 – 3,795
Eikthyrdeer	791	2,373 – 2,966
Direhowl	611	1,833 – 2,291
Herbil	541	1,623 – 2,028
Lifmunk	480	1,440 – 1,800
Pengullet	463	1,389 – 1,736
Cattiva	436	1,308 – 1,635
Lamball	421	1,263 – 1,578
Foxparks	394	1,182 – 1,477
Chikipi	313	939 – 1,173

What Changes a Pal's Price

Beyond level and base value, only a short list of things actually moves the number — and an even shorter list of things you might expect to move it does nothing at all.

Alphas and Lucky Pals

Alpha and Lucky Pals are worth roughly double a standard Pal of the same species and level. That is the one situation where selling is not a total waste: a high-level Alpha of an expensive species is the single biggest lump of gold a Pal will ever hand you. It is still worth less than keeping it, since Alphas come with better stats and Lucky Pals are the only route to their glow, so weigh that before you cash one in. Every Alpha's location is mapped on our Alpha Pal list.

Passive Skills That Move the Price

Three passives shift what merchants pay and charge, and they cut both ways — Noble gets you 5% more when selling and takes 5% off what you pay. Fine Furs is the weaker version at 3%, and Shabby is the one to avoid: it drags 10% off everything you sell. They stack across your party, so a shopping trip with a Noble Pal in tow is a small but free discount on an expensive purchase. Full effects for all three are on the passive skills list.

What Doesn't Matter

Condensing a Pal does nothing to its value, and neither do the Pal Souls you pour into it — a four-star condensed Pal sells for exactly what an identical unfused one does. Active skill levels are ignored too. In short, every bit of investment you make in a Pal is sunk the moment you sell it, which is another reason the shop is a place to buy from and not to sell to.

Is Selling Pals Worth It?

Almost never. The best sale in the entire game is a level 50 Dumud Gild at 8,955 gold, and a single Mimog kill drops 8,500 to 11,000 Gold Coin plus a Training Manual (XL) on top. One fight beats the most valuable Pal you own, and the Mimog respawns. Selling makes sense only as cleanup — dumping the duplicate low-tier Pals your Palbox fills up with, where 50 gold each is better than nothing. For anything approaching a real income, the routes in our gold farming guide are an order of magnitude faster.

Where to Buy and Sell Pals

Pal Merchants wander the settlements and carry the low-level stock; Black Marketeers stand in fixed spots and carry the high-level pools. Both pay the same when you sell, so there is no point walking a Pal across the map to find a better offer. Our interactive map pins all 12 fixed merchant spots on the merchant layer, and if you are hunting a specific vendor, every Black Marketeer location is listed with coordinates.

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