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Calculators

Three questions worth doing the maths on

Should I buy this upgrade, what should I buy next, and do I sell now or wait. Everything else in GTA Online is taste. These three have actual answers.

Is this upgrade worth it?

Sticker price tells you nothing. What matters is how many sales it takes to earn itself back at the rate you actually play.

Payback

Acid Lab
List price ($250,000)
What it changesFull batch goes from $237,600 to $335,200, fill time from six hours to four, and supply use is halved.
Extra profit per sale $193,600
Extra per hour of play $46,095
Sales to break even 1.3
Hours of play to break even 5h 25m
At 8h a week, that is under a week
Profit in your first month after that $1,335,676
Buy it now

Built from published stock values and supply costs, so the per sale figure is solid. The per hour number still assumes you sell as soon as stock is full.

What should I buy next?

Ranked by how long each one takes to pay for itself at your play rate, counting the upgrades it needs before it earns anything. Anything you already own is left out.

Shopping list

8h a week · $500,000 on hand
Nothing on the list is within reach yetRun the Acid Lab and the daily collectibles until something below is affordable.

Most of these rates are estimates built from community testing rather than published figures, and none of them include weekly 2x events, which can move the order considerably. Use this to pick between two purchases, not to justify one you were going to make anyway.

Sell now or wait?

A half-full business sells for half as much, but waiting only pays if you are still online when it fills. This compares both against the time you actually have.

Sell comparison

Acid Lab
Sell right now, at 60%Amount
Gross value $201,120
Delivery time 12m
In your pocket $201,120
Per minute spent $16,760/min
Wait for full stockAmount
Time to fill from hereProduction only runs while you are in a session. 1h 36m
Then delivery 12m
Full stock value $335,200
Per minute spent $3,104/min
Extra money for waiting $134,080
Sell now $201,120
Will not fill in time

Filling to 100% needs 1h 48m including the delivery, and you told us you have 1h 30m. Sell what you have. Stock carries over to your next session, so the alternative is leaving $201,120 sitting in a warehouse doing nothing.

Every figure behind these comes from one file, so when Rockstar rebalances something the calculators and the reference tables move together. Where a number is community-tested rather than published, the statement says so instead of pretending otherwise.