OSRS Top 10 Skilling Money Makers in 2025
- Theoatrix
- 2 days ago
- 6 min read
What's going on guys, my name's Theoatrix and today I'm counting down the Top 10 Skilling Money Makers for 2025. I’m going to start with the top 10 overall, then I'll show the best skilling money makers for Ironmen and for free to play.
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10 - Mastering Mixology Minigame
In September of 2024, Jagex introduced the mastering mixology minigame which brought the most profitable herblore method to the game. If you exchange your reward points for chugging barrels, you can expect to make over 1.7 mil GP per hour at higher levels. You unlock this minigame with level 60 herblore, and completion of the children of the sun quest. The minigame gives fairly slow XP rates, but is an excellent place for ironmen to use herbs, since it gives the most XP per herb.
9 - Tan Leather Spell
The 9th best skilling money maker… is casting the tan leather spell. It currently brings in 1.8 mil GP per hour with both red and black d’hide. To be able to cast tan leather, you need to have level 78 magic as well as completion of the hard Fremennik achievement diaries. While earning millions, you’ll get close to 130k XP per hour in magic, which is decent for a money maker.
8 - Zalcano
After completing the Song of the Elves, you can access Zalcano. At Zalcano, you can either prioritize loot.. Or XP. Prioritizing loot brings an average of 2 mil GP an hour at higher levels, although the XP rates are fairly minimal. Without prioritizing XP, you only get 15k mining XP per hour, which is far less than what you'd normally get.
Defeating Zalcano can reward you with the crystal tool seed, and the uncut onyx, both worth a decent amount.
7 - Thieving Rogue Chests
At number 7 is stealing from rogues chests deep in the wilderness. This requires level 84 thieving, and its pretty much required to have 43 prayer for protect from melee.
Being in the wilderness, its hard to estimate the profit per hour. But with some luck, it is possible to get a little over 2 mil GP per hour, while getting near 300k thieving XP per hour.
To ensure you don't lose your loot on death, you can bring a rock cake or a locator orb to lower your health, then if a PKer comes, you turn off your protection prayers and die to the rogues. This counts as a PvM death, so you can retrieve your items.
In saying all this, the rogues castle area is a common PK area, but can be one of the best ways to get hard clues in the game, excluding implings.
6 - Blood Runes
The 6th most profitable skilling method, is runecrafting blood runes at the True Blood Altar. This brings in up to 48k runecrafting XP per hour, and 2.1 mil GP profit per hour with the Raiment's of the Eye set.
This method is unlocked at level 77 runecrafting, although having at least 74 agility is a must, otherwise its not worth doing this method. Having 93 agility really helps. To access the True Blood Altar, you need to have completed the sins of the father quest - the profit rates at the Arceuus blood altar are far lower.
5 - Wrath Runes
Next up, we have runecrafting wrath runes, in the 5th position. This requires full completion of the dragon slayer 2 quest, and also requires 95 runecrafting. While getting 42k runecrafting XP, its possible to get 2.3 mil GP profit per hour, with the full Raiment's of the eye set. Without the set, you can expect only 1.4 mil GP per hour.
4 - Pickpocketing Elves
Fourth place, is pickpocketing elves, which currently brings in 2.6 mil GP per hour if you get everything on the drop rate. To get 2.6 per hour, you do need a high thieving level, but when you unlock elves at 85 thieving, you can get about 1.8 mil gp per hour. At the same time, you get from 160 to 200k thieving XP per hour depending on your level.
The most notable drop from elves is the enhanced crystal teleport seeds, which are currently worth 2.2 mil as of late October 2025.
3 - Wilderness Agility
The third most profitable skilling money maker, is wilderness agility, where its currently possible to get 2.7 mil GP per hour. Although, this is in the wilderness, so to get those rates its recommended to join a clan or group to go there together. The wilderness agility course provides the fastest agility XP in the game between levels 47 and 62, giving 45 to 50k XP per hour.
You get rewarded based on how many laps you've done in one session, so you initially get rewarded less than 2.7 mil an hour, but once you reach over 60 laps, you start making a lot.
2 - Herb Runs
The second most profitable skilling activity, is completing herb runs.
Its possible to average up to 3.4 mil GP per hour with efficient herb runs, with disease free patches, magic secateurs, every patch unlocked and ultra compost on every patch.
To get started with herb runs, its recommended to begin with at least 32 farming to start making some profit.
In terms of farming XP rates, for the time you put in, if you convert that to an hourly XP rate, its 250k XP per hour at higher levels.
1 - Pickpocketing Vyres
And… the most profitable skilling method in 2025, is pickpocketing Vyres. At 99 thieving, you can get 4.8 mil GP per hour if you get everything on the drop rate. You unlock this method at 82 thieving, with completion of Sins of the Father, and at 82, its possible to get 2.5 mil GP per hour.
Your XP rates will range from 140 to 260 between levels 82 and 99, which is quite fast.
The biggest money maker here is the blood shard drop, while wearing the rogues outfit. With the doubled drop, getting those will bring in 27 mil into your bank account.
Ironmen Skilling Money Makers
Now lets switch it up and talk about the best skilling money makers for ironmen.
Crafting runes at the Ourania altar, or also known as ZMI, is an excellent way to make money if you sell the runes back to shops. You can get a range of high level runes, with a fairly short running distance to the altar. As an ironman, its possible to get up to 1.5 mil in cash per hour if you have at least 90 runecrafting at the ZMI.
An even better money maker for ironmen is crafting and alching battlestaves. From PvM, Celastrus trees, Zaff, or the magic guild store, you can convert the battlestaves to any of the powered battlestaves, then alch for profit, reaching over 2 mil per hour when it comes to crafting and alching.
Free to Play Skilling Monkey Makers
In free to play, you can use the bones to bananas spell to make 350k GP per hour, while getting 20k magic XP.
Or, the most reliable and profitable skilling money maker in free to play, is mining runite ore. This requires 85 mining, and its in the wilderness, but it is possible to get 440k GP per hour if you don't get PKed.
There’s also the method where you buy jug packs from Draynor Village, and with this you can get 380k GP per hour, although its not exactly a skilling method.
Anyways, that was the best skilling money makers in OSRS, thanks for reading.