If you want one number: the median Dota 2 account on our shelf sells for
$14.63. The full range on 6 September 2026 runs from $8.32 to
$554.99 across 229 listings, and two thirds of the shelf sits under $20.
That makes Dota one of the cheaper shelves we price — close to
Roblox, nowhere near the $74 of
Valorant or Fortnite. And it has the strangest headline of any game we have
measured: the rating everyone asks about is almost irrelevant to the price.
We ran the same measurement as for every other game — how strongly each number
on a listing tracks its final price, across all 229 listings:
| what is on the account | how strongly it tracks price |
|---|
| Inventory value | 0.57 |
| Steam level | 0.46 |
| Wins | 0.30 |
| Matches played | 0.29 |
| Solo MMR | 0.15 |
| Win rate | 0.13 |
| Behavior score | 0.05 |
The inventory leads at 0.57 — the strongest single stat on any shelf we have
measured after Genshin's 0.80. Solo MMR, the number every listing title leads
with, comes in at 0.15: a weak signal. And the behavior score, which
decides the quality of every match the account will ever play, has no
relationship with the price at all.
The reason is the shape of the shelf. Most accounts here calibrated into the
low and middle brackets, and inside those brackets a few hundred points change
the medal on the profile without changing what anyone pays for it.
| medal | solo MMR | listings | median |
|---|
| Herald and Guardian | under 1 540 | 116 | $13.27 – $14.63 |
| Crusader | 1 540 – 2 309 | 64 | $26.64 |
| Archon and Legend | 2 310 – 3 849 | 41 | $29.75 |
| Ancient and above | 3 850 and up | 6 | $60.12 |
Herald and Guardian are priced identically. Crusader is the first real step,
and from Archon the rating carries a premium of its own — but the whole ladder
from the bottom to Legend spans a factor of two, not ten. The top brackets are
rare enough that each listing sets its own price; there are six of them on the
shelf today, and no Immortal at all.
If you are shopping by medal, the catalogue has a shelf for each bracket —
Herald, Crusader,
Archon, Legend — and the price card on each
is computed from the live listings, not from this article.
Split the shelf by what is not Dota-specific and the picture sharpens:
| on the account | listings | median |
|---|
| no inventory | 201 | $14.63 |
| inventory worth $1 – $9 | 18 | $33.08 |
| inventory worth $10 or more | 10 | $50.06 |
| Steam level 0 | 143 | $13.27 |
| Steam level 1 – 9 | 73 | $31.64 |
| Steam level 10 or more | 13 | $50.20 |
| CS2 also in the library | 65 | $33.22 |
| Dota only | 164 | $13.27 |
An account with even a small inventory sells for more than twice the bare
median. A Steam level above zero — which in practice means an account that was
lived in and spent on — doubles it again. And an account that also carries CS2
Prime holds a median of $33.22 against $13.27 for a Dota-only login: buyers are
paying for a second game's worth of standing on the same Steam account.
The played history works the same way, more gently: under a thousand matches
the median barely moves; from a thousand it climbs to $33.05, and from three
thousand to $50.20. Years of play cannot be faked in a screenshot, and the
market prices them accordingly.
The dearest account on the shelf, at $554.99, has 1 360 solo MMR — a
Guardian. What it has instead is CS2 alongside Dota and a Steam profile with a
history. The second dearest, at $499.51, sits at 1 395 MMR with a behavior
score of 10 089, nearly three thousand matches and $347 of inventory. The
third, again under 1 500 MMR, again with CS2.
Not one of the six most expensive accounts is above 2 800 MMR. If you came here
to price a high-rated main, the honest answer is that our shelf does not hold
enough of them to say — Ancient and above is six listings, and they are priced
one at a time.
The single number with zero relationship to price is the one that decides who
you play with. Accounts with a behavior score below 6 000 — the lobbies nobody
wants — hold a median of $21.65, higher than the 6 000 – 7 999 band at
$13.27, simply because that band happens to contain the shelf's inventory-heavy
accounts. Above 8 000 the median jumps to $58.45, but there are only 22 such
listings, and the jump belongs to their history and inventory as much as to the
score.
Read it as a gate rather than a price: a low score is the one thing on a card
that no amount of playing well fixes quickly, and it is worth filtering on
before the rating — 8 000+ behavior score is the shelf
for that.
The rating is the last thing to look at. Start from what the measurement says
moves the price:
- The inventory. Arcanas, immortals and personas are Steam items that leave
with the account. Name them one by one — buyers search for them by name, and
an account with a few of them prices like an account with a few of them.
- The Steam account itself. Level, years, a second game — CS2 Prime above
all. A Dota-only login on a fresh Steam account is priced as a login.
- The history. Matches and wins, honestly stated. Three thousand games is
a fact the profile confirms.
- Then the MMR and the medal, which set the bracket, and the behavior
score, which decides who will want the account at all.
That is what the Dota 2 account value calculator does: it
prices against the live shelf rather than a formula. When you are ready to
list, sell your Dota 2 account — escrow holds the payment until
the buyer confirms the login works.
Figures from our own catalogue on 6 September 2026: 229 Dota 2 listings, $8.32
to $554.99, median $14.63, quartiles $13.27 – $28.64. Correlations are Pearson
coefficients across the listings with the attribute present; medal brackets are
Valve's published MMR thresholds. Everything moves as stock moves.
