If you want one number: the median War Thunder account on our shelf sells for
. The range right now runs from
to
across
listings, with the middle half
between and
.
Two things make this shelf simple to read. Nothing in War Thunder ever
resets — research, crews, premiums and Golden Eagles stay on an account for as
long as it exists, so everything a listing states is permanent. And the
sellers describe accounts in two shapes only: a researched tech-tree line
(«Aviation • Sweden VI Rank from J8A to A28B») or a premium collection («16
Prems: F/A-18C, Su-22M4 …»). The first is months of grinding; the second is
money.
Rank is how far a nation's tree has been researched, and the shelf sorts by
it. Ranks I to VI are the historical trees — the grind everybody does — and an
account that stops there sells as a head start. Rank VII and above is top
tier: the modern jets and main battle tanks, the longest part of the grind and
the reason most accounts here are bought. The table shows the step.
Read the «not stated» row for what it is: a mix. Some of those listings are
premium collections that lead with the vehicles rather than the rank; some
are bare accounts sold for their hours or their region. The rank tells you the
band; it does not tell you which of the two shapes you are looking at.
At equal rank, the premium vehicles are most of the difference between two
listings. A premium is bought — with Golden Eagles or in a pack at the store —
and a top-tier premium costs as much as a full game; it cannot be researched,
so an account either has it or does not. A title that names its premiums is
telling you what it cost to build, and a listing with a long list of them is
priced like a collection whether or not the tree behind it is finished.
Only a handful of listings state a count of premiums or a Golden Eagles
balance, which is why neither has a table here — the number of listings
behind it would be too small to mean anything. Read them the way the sellers
write them: by name.
A few listings lead with hours — «5000+ hours», «9000+ hours» — and it is
tempting to read that as the value. It is not, on its own. Hours say the
account was played for years, which the rank and the crews already show; what
the hours do not say is what was researched or bought. An account with
thousands of hours and a rank IV tree is a rank IV account.
The phrase most people search for — «war thunder premium account» — means
premium time in this game: a subscription from Gaijin that speeds up research
and earnings. It is not an account for sale. What this shelf sells is the
account itself, with its tree and its vehicles; some listings include premium
time still running, and say so, but that is an extra, not the product.
The login. A War Thunder account made at Gaijin is recovered through its
email, and a listing without the mailbox is an account the seller can take
back. An account made through Steam logs in with Steam and has no email of
its own until it is linked to a Gaijin account — which the seller may or may
not have done. Ask which it is before you read a single vehicle; on this shelf
that line decides whether you keep what you paid for.
And the nation. Every nation has a tree, and a rank VII Sweden line and a rank
VII USSR line are worth about the same to the market — until you want to fly
one of them, at which point the nation is the whole purchase. Filter for it
before you compare prices.
Lead with the rank and the nation — «Rank VII, USSR aviation» — because that
is how the shelf is sorted and filtered, and a listing without a rank is
invisible to the top-tier slice. Then the premiums by name, and the Golden
Eagles. Say whether the account was made at Gaijin or through Steam and
whether the email comes with it.
The slices carry their own live medians —
top-tier accounts,
all War Thunder accounts — and when you are ready,
sell your War Thunder account: escrow holds the payment
until the buyer confirms the account opens and the hangar matches.
Every figure on this page is read from our live catalogue when the page
loads, not written into the text — the shelf moves, and so do the numbers.
The correlation is a Spearman coefficient, computed on ranks rather than raw
prices. Rank, premium counts and Golden Eagles are read from the sellers' own
titles and are present on part of the shelf, which is why the table prints its
own listing count and keeps a row for the listings that state nothing.