Apex heirloom accounts: what an heirloom is worth, why no marketplace can filter for it, and how to verify one before you pay

Every other thing on an Apex Legends account can be bought with money: skins, packs, the battle pass, even most of the rank if you count boosting. An heirloom cannot. It comes out of packs at a rate Respawn does not publish and guarantees only after a very large number of them, and that is exactly why an account that has one is priced as a different product from an account that does not.

It is also why heirloom accounts are the part of this market with the most fiction in it. Here is what the item actually is, why no shelf — ours included — can filter for it, and how to check a listing yourself.

What an heirloom is, in money

Heirlooms are the melee cosmetics tied to a legend — Wraith's kunai, Bloodhound's axe, Octane's butterfly knife and so on. They arrive one of two ways:

• Shards from packs. Opening Apex Packs can drop heirloom shards, and a full set of them buys any heirloom in the store. The drop is rare, but there is a hard guarantee: an account is promised a set of shards within 500 packs opened. Five hundred packs bought outright is several hundred dollars, and that figure is the floor the market prices the item at.
• Collection events. During an event, buying every one of the two dozen event items unlocks that event's heirloom directly. The full set costs well over a hundred dollars each time, and the event heirloom is exclusive to it until it eventually rotates into the shard store.

Either route means one thing for a buyer: whoever built the account spent either a great deal of money or a great deal of time, and there is no cheap way to have done it. A listing with an heirloom at the price of a listing without one is a listing to be suspicious of, not a bargain.

Why no marketplace can filter for it

We receive Apex accounts with their level, rank and rank points read from the account data. We do not receive a field that says «heirloom», because EA's account data does not expose the collection as a list a supplier can read out. That is not a gap in one supplier's spreadsheet; it is how the platform works.

Any site offering an «heirloom» checkbox is therefore filtering on something a seller typed, not on something read from the account — which is precisely the field a dishonest seller has the most reason to type. We would rather show you where to look than build a filter that reads as verified when it is not. On our Apex shelf the heirloom, when there is one, is on the screenshots and in the collection on the card, and the listing says so where you can see it.

What the price data shows — and does not

We measured what tracks price across 134 Apex listings on 6 September 2026. Rank does, in a staircase: Rookie and Bronze cheap, Silver three times Bronze, Gold double that, Platinum and Diamond at the top. Level barely registers.

Then there are the six most expensive listings on the shelf, all within a couple of dollars of each other at the very top. Their ranks: Silver 2, Bronze 4, Diamond 3, Gold 4, Gold 2, Diamond 4. Their levels: from 54 to 160. Nothing in the numbers we receive explains why a Bronze 4 account costs the same as a Diamond 3 — and that is the heirloom, showing up in the data as the thing the data cannot see. The full measurement is in how much is my Apex account worth.

The practical consequence: if you are pricing or buying an heirloom account, the rank table does not apply. The comparables are other heirloom listings, one at a time.

The five-minute check

1. Find it in the screenshots. The heirloom shows in the legend's melee slot and in the collection screen. A listing that says «heirloom» without a screenshot of either is a listing that says so.
2. Match the heirloom to the legend. Each heirloom belongs to one legend. A screenshot of Wraith's kunai on an account whose most-played legend is Octane is not impossible, but it is worth a question.
3. Look for the shards, not just the item. An account with unspent shards is an account that can buy any heirloom in the store — listed honestly as shards, it is worth about the same as an heirloom and more flexible.
4. Check the packs opened. A level 60 account with an heirloom and no collection-event items opened a lot of purchased packs, or got the rarest drop in the game. Both happen; the first is far more common, and the level and the purchase history on the card should agree with it.
5. Confirm inside the game before you confirm the order. With escrow the money stays frozen until you say the account matches. Open the collection, find the heirloom, then confirm. That is the whole point of the window.

Two things that are not heirlooms

• Prestige skins — the mythic-tier legend skins that evolve through challenges — come from their own events and are often listed next to heirlooms. They are valuable and they are not heirlooms; the listing should name which it means.
• «All heirlooms» is a phrase that appears in searches and on listings. Count them on the screenshots. An account genuinely holding many heirlooms is a very expensive account, and the price should say so before the title does.

After you buy

An heirloom is on the account, not on a platform, so it follows the EA account wherever it is linked. What you must do in the first ten minutes is the same as for any EA account and matters more here because of what is on it: change the password, move the email to your own, turn on EA login verification, and remove any linked console profile that is not yours. EA restores accounts to whoever holds the earliest purchase receipts, and an account with an heirloom has a purchase history somebody may remember.

The Apex Legends shelf shows rank, points and level read from the account data on every card; the heirloom, where there is one, is in the screenshots. Read those first.