Tarkov PVE vs PVP Flea Market Prices 2026: We Compared 3,510 Items

Escape from Tarkov's PVE mode has its own flea market, completely separate from PVP. Same items, different players, different prices. Most price tools only show one of the two, which means a lot of PVE players are reading PVP numbers without knowing it.

TarkovForge samples both markets every hour, so we lined them up. This is a snapshot of 3,510 items that had a flea price in both modes, using each item's average over the seven days ending September 30, 2026.

The Headline: Same Average, Completely Different Prices

Here is the surprising part. Across all 3,510 items, the median PVE price is within 1% of the median PVP price. Neither mode is "the cheap one". About half of all items (49%) are cheaper in PVE and about half (51%) are cheaper in PVP.

But that average hides how far apart individual items are:

• Only 23% of items are within 10% of each other across the two modes
• 31% of items cost at least 25% more in PVE
• 20% of items cost at least 25% less in PVE
• 13% of items cost at least double in PVE
• 7% of items cost half or less in PVE

So the right way to think about it is not "PVE is cheaper" or "PVE is pricier". It is that a PVP price tells you very little about what you will pay in PVE, and the other way around.

What Costs More in PVE

The clearest pattern is hideout and crafting materials. The items every player needs to build and run their hideout are consistently more expensive in PVE:

• Graphics card: about 344,000 roubles in PVP, about 739,000 in PVE
• Water filter: about 83,000 in PVP, about 234,000 in PVE
• Military power filter: about 50,000 in PVP, about 131,000 in PVE
• Portable defibrillator: about 164,000 in PVP, about 496,000 in PVE
• Virtex programmable processor: about 69,000 in PVP, about 166,000 in PVE
• Car battery: about 41,000 in PVP, about 90,000 in PVE
• Electric motor: about 87,000 in PVP, about 147,000 in PVE
• Bottle of Fierce Hatchling moonshine: about 242,000 in PVP, about 435,000 in PVE
• LEDX Skin Transilluminator: about 591,000 in PVP, about 860,000 in PVE

We also priced the whole hideout. Buying every hideout construction item that is sold on the flea costs about 53 million roubles in PVP and about 69 million in PVE, which is 29% more.

High-end keys follow the same direction. The Dorm room 314 marked key averaged about 3.2 million roubles in PVP and about 8 million in PVE. Rare keys have very few listings in either mode, so their prices swing hard from week to week, and a single listing can move the average.

What Costs Less in PVE

Everyday raid gear and meds go the other way:

• Salewa first aid kit: about 32,000 roubles in PVP, about 18,000 in PVE
• IFAK individual first aid kit: about 22,000 in PVP, about 13,000 in PVE
• Gas analyzer: about 28,000 in PVP, about 19,000 in PVE
• Tetriz portable game console: about 201,000 in PVP, about 105,000 in PVE
• Golden rooster figurine: about 69,000 in PVP, about 50,000 in PVE

By category, the typical headset is 27% cheaper in PVE, the typical backpack is 15% cheaper, and suppressors are about 11% cheaper, with 78% of all suppressors costing less in PVE. Two out of three meds, armors and keys are cheaper in PVE too. Ordinary keys are cheap there. It is only the top-tier loot room keys that flip.

What Costs About the Same

A few staples barely move between modes:

• Intelligence folder: about 310,000 roubles in PVP, about 312,000 in PVE
• Secure Flash drive: about 18,000 in both
• TerraGroup Labs access keycard: about 130,000 in PVP, about 132,000 in PVE
• Red Rebel ice pick: about 838,000 in PVP, about 794,000 in PVE

Weapon parts as a group also land close to even on average, but they have the widest spread of any category. Individual mods can be ten times the price in one mode and a tenth of it in the other, mostly because a single listing can set the price of a rarely traded part.

Why the Two Markets Split

This part is our read of the numbers, not something the data can prove. In PVE, players survive far more raids, so the things you carry out of an ordinary raid (meds, headsets, backpacks, suppressors, common valuables) flood the market and get cheap. At the same time, PVE players tend to push the hideout and crafting hard, and nobody is losing a kit to another player and rebuying it, so roubles pile up and chase the same limited pool of graphics cards, filters and rare keys. More supply of everyday loot, more money chasing the rare stuff.

What to Do With This

• If you play PVE, stop pricing your loot off PVP numbers. You are likely underselling hideout materials and overpaying for nothing else
• In PVE, loot hideout and craft materials first. A graphics card is worth more than twice what a PVP price list tells you
• In PVE, do not bother hoarding meds to sell. Buy them, they are cheap
• In PVP, the opposite holds: meds and common gear hold their value, and hideout parts are the comparatively cheap part of progression
• Check the mode before you trust any price, including ours

Our flea market page has a PVE and PVP switch, and every item page on TarkovForge follows it, so the price, the chart and the trader comparison all match the mode you actually play. The Should I Keep This? tool uses the same switch.

Prices move every hour, so treat the exact numbers above as a snapshot from the end of September 2026. The overall shape has held in every week since we started sampling both markets in late August: the median stays within 1% and roughly three quarters of items sit more than 10% apart.