Path of Price Check

Path of Price Check

Take the guesswork out of your Path to Riches. One hotkey press away.

Native, lightweight, fast*, open-source, multi-platform** and privacy-first price check overlay tool for Path of Exile. A live economy requires live data - this is the tool that lets you in on them in one place and at a glance, minimising the friction between the (for sure) multi-mirror item you've dropped and otherwise would vendor for Alteration shards.

* Results may vary, not tested on a potato.
** Windows and Linux, see below.

Windows · installer Recommended. Installs for you alone, so it needs no administrator, and lands somewhere the tool can update itself. 3.7 MB
Windows · portable .zip with the bare .exe. Updates itself only if you unpack it somewhere writable - which Program Files is not. 2.2 MB
Linux · AppImage Self-contained, libcurl and OpenSSL bundled. Other requirements: see requirements 9.2 MB
Linux · tarball Binary. For dependencies, see requirements 2.9 MB

v0.7.23 · released 2026-08-15 · all releases and changelogs

Early development. It works and it is used daily, but settings, interfaces and the panel layout all still move.

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The Price Check Window

The Price Check Window

  • Just one hotkey away
  • Rebuilt item preview
  • Modifier parsing including Rank, Tier and Ranges
  • Pre-selected modifiers based on strategies, but you decide what to search by
See what you are comparing to

See what you are comparing to

  • Item previews straight from the live trade site results
  • Rendered exactly the way your own item is
  • See the asking price and the gold fee as a bonus
  • Whenever available, the going rate poe.ninja records, and which way it is heading with a week of history behind it
  • Recognises variable modifiers (can roll n of m modifiers)
Every kind of item asks its own question

Every kind of item asks its own question

  • Different item, different strategy
  • Smart search for maps based on Tier, Quantity, More X modifiers...
  • Custom strategy for Blighted, Blight-ravaged, Corrupted or Influenced maps
  • Valdo map reward and Void matching
Faustus does the work, you should see it

Faustus does the work, you should see it

  • See how an item tradeable on the currency exchange actually trades
  • See the average price, volume, maximums and minimums for the stated period
  • Straight from GGG, published once each hour has closed
  • Every hour ever published* is crawled, going all the way back to Settlers, so no item that has ever traded there is missed
  • * Only to know what trades there at all - the prices you see are always the single hour named under the table
It knows what it cannot know

It knows what it cannot know

  • Identify an unidentified unique from a list
  • Pictures included! (unless they aren't)
  • The trade site search matches the Identified/Unidentified status, so the listings are the same product you are holding
  • Careful: poe.ninja shows you the identified price - don't forget to search!
  • Not a gambler? Never turn a Watcher's Eye into a 5c item*
  • * Without checking what the unidentified ones are selling for first!
Something priced wrong? Say so from where it happened

Something priced wrong? Say so from where it happened

  • Bug reporting with zero friction
  • Sends what the tool actually used to identify the item, which is the thing a maintainer has to see
  • As anonymous as it can be made - every account name is scrubbed out of the trade results before the picture is taken
  • Everything you see is what will be sent. Nothing more. No fingerprint, no identifying information, just what matters for fixing the problem
  • A screenshot sometimes tells the rest of the story, so you get the preview and the choice of whether to attach it
Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

  • You should probably tell the tool the league you play in
  • Adjustable range matching including open-sided matching
  • Want a pleasant surprise? Set up your own account name
  • The tool will spot your own listings in the results and highlight them

Main features

The full list, and how each part works →

Requirements

Path of Exile
  • The International client - Steam or Standalone
  • Client language: English
  • Any public league currently running; private leagues are not offered
Windows
  • Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit
  • Nothing else - no runtime, no DLLs beside the .exe
  • The installer puts the tool in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PathOfPriceCheck and asks for no administrator rights. The portable .zip goes wherever you put it.

Both downloads are unsigned, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time you run them - a code-signing certificate is a yearly fee this project does not charge anyone for. Choose More info → Run anyway. Every release is built in public by GitHub Actions from the source in this repository, and the checksums are published with it.

Linux
  • X11, or Wayland through Xwayland - it is an X11 client either way, and Xwayland is what it is developed on
  • glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12); older than that, build from source
Binary (tarball) release

The tarball is the bare executable, so it wants from the system what the AppImage carries for you:

  • libcurl, with whichever TLS stack it was built against
  • libXext, libXfixes, libXtst

Both downloads need glibc 2.35 or newer, libstdc++, libX11 and an OpenGL driver (libglvnd / libGL) - those belong to the session rather than to the application, so nothing can bundle them. The window also loads libXcursor, libXi, libXrandr and libxkbcommon where they exist, and the tray icon needs GTK 3 with libayatana-appindicator3; without that one the app still runs, it just has nothing to quit from.

These are library names, not package names - those differ by distribution. Building from source carries per-distribution lists, but those are the development headers for compiling rather than this.

An internet connection
  • The game data, republished every 6 hours - checked at startup, and ~4 MB to download only when there is a bundle you do not have
  • The official trade API, when you run a search
  • The in-game currency exchange history
  • poe.ninja, for reference prices
  • Item images, once each, cached from then on

Path of Exile needs one as well, so this is less a requirement than an observation.

Privacy first

Privacy is not a setting you have to find here - it's the default. No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no usage counter, and no server of ours on the other end to collect any of it with. What goes out is what a price check needs, to the same hosts your browser would talk to, and nothing else leaves the machine. The one thing you can send is a bug report, and only by pressing the button: the dialog shows you the whole of it - the screenshot too, if you tick that box - before any of it moves.

Read the entire privacy policy →

Documentation