How Much Are V-Bucks? Prices After the March 2026 Change

Summary: V-Bucks pack prices did not change on 19 March 2026, but the amount of currency in each pack did. The $8.99 pack dropped from 1,000 to 800 V-Bucks, $22.99 went from 2,800 to 2,400, $36.99 from 5,000 to 4,500, and $89.99 from 13,500 to 12,500. That is why so many of the numbers you will find quoted online no longer match what you get, and why gift cards in shops still show the old amounts. This guide has the current chart, the cost per V-Buck for each tier, and what the change did to the Battle Pass.

• Dollar prices stayed the same. You now get roughly 8 to 14 percent fewer V-Bucks per pack.
• The exact-amount option took the worst hit: 50 V-Bucks went from around $0.50 to $0.99.
• Gift cards already bought are unaffected and still redeem at the amount printed on them.
• Bigger packs are better value than small ones, and the gap widened after the change.

How Much Are V-Bucks Now?

These are the current pack amounts, with what the same money used to get you before 19 March 2026:

• $0.99: 50 V-Bucks (previously around $0.50 for 50)
• $8.99: 800 V-Bucks (previously 1,000)
• $22.99: 2,400 V-Bucks (previously 2,800)
• $36.99: 4,500 V-Bucks (previously 5,000)
• $89.99: 12,500 V-Bucks (previously 13,500)

Prices outside the United States follow Epic's regional pricing, so the local figures differ but the pack sizes are the same everywhere.

What Changed on 19 March 2026

Epic announced the change on 10 March 2026 and it took effect on 19 March, alongside Chapter 7 Season 2. Rather than raising the dollar price of each pack, Epic reduced how much currency each one contains, which amounts to the same thing for anyone buying. Epic's reasoning, given in its own announcement, was that the cost of running the game has risen substantially.

This is the second increase of its kind. Epic raised bundle prices by roughly 12 to 15 percent in late 2023, so anything written before March 2026 is describing the previous structure.

Which Pack Is Best Value

Divide the price by the V-Bucks and the tiers separate clearly:

• $89.99 for 12,500: about 0.72 cents per V-Buck, the best rate available
• $36.99 for 4,500: about 0.82 cents
• $22.99 for 2,400: about 0.96 cents
• $8.99 for 800: about 1.12 cents
• $0.99 for 50: about 1.98 cents, nearly three times the rate of the largest pack

The exact-amount option exists for topping up a few V-Bucks short of a purchase, and it is priced accordingly. If you find yourself using it regularly, a larger pack costs less overall.

How Much Is 2,800 V-Bucks? And Other Numbers That No Longer Exist

A lot of searches still use the old pack sizes, because those numbers were in circulation for years and are still printed on physical cards. If you are looking for 1,000, 2,800, 5,000 or 13,500 V-Bucks as a purchase option in the game, you will not find it any more. The nearest equivalents are 800, 2,400, 4,500 and 12,500.

Retail gift cards are a separate matter and this is where the confusion sharpens. Shops still stock cards printed with amounts like 2,800 V-Bucks for $24.99, because a gift card is its own product with its own denomination rather than a live store listing. A card printed with an old amount is not out of date: it redeems for exactly what it says.

Which means, for the moment, a physical card can be better value than buying the equivalent in-game. Worth comparing the printed amount against the current pack before deciding.

How Many V-Bucks Do You Get for $20, $25 or $50?

None of those figures matches a pack exactly, which is why the question comes up so often. Working from the current tiers:

• $20 does not reach the $22.99 tier, so it buys the $8.99 pack (800) with change left over
• $25 covers the $22.99 pack, giving 2,400 V-Bucks
• $40 covers the $36.99 pack, giving 4,500 V-Bucks
• $50 still lands on the $36.99 pack, since the next tier is $89.99

Gift card denominations are the reason $25 and $50 come up more than Epic's own price points. If you are buying currency for someone else, matching a card denomination to a pack tier is the difference between a usable gift and a stranded balance. Topping up through a service like Unipin is another route in regions where it operates.

What It Did to the Battle Pass

The Battle Pass got cheaper in V-Bucks terms, dropping from 1,000 to 800. That sounds like good news until you look at what completing it pays out. Finishing the pass now returns 800 V-Bucks, exactly what it cost. Previously it returned 1,000 plus 500 in bonus rewards, so a player who finished each season accumulated a surplus and effectively never paid again.

That surplus is gone. You now break even rather than come out ahead, which is the change most regular players actually feel. The Battle Bundle, which adds 25 levels, went from 2,800 to 2,600 V-Bucks.

Fortnite Crew subscribers saw their monthly V-Bucks grant cut from 1,000 to 800. The OG Pass also moved to 800, while the Music and LEGO passes sit at 1,200 each.

The 20 Percent Epic Rewards Offset

Epic softened the change with a credit rather than a discount. Purchases made through Epic's own payment system, on PC, iOS, Android, the web or the Epic Games Store, earn 20 percent back in Epic Rewards. The credit can be spent in Fortnite, in other Epic titles or on the Epic Games Store.

Two things follow from that. Buying through a console store rather than Epic directly forfeits the credit, and the credit is store value rather than money back, so it only offsets the cost if you were going to spend it there anyway.

Where Gift Cards Fit

A V-Bucks card is a fixed amount of currency redeemed to your Epic account, and the printed value holds regardless of what the in-game packs are doing. If you are new to how the codes attach to an account, how to redeem V-Bucks covers the platform-by-platform steps, and what V-Bucks are and how to use them covers the basics of the shared wallet.

Cards also sidestep the need to attach a payment method to a child's account, which is often the real reason people buy them. Marketplaces such as GameSeal carry game and currency codes alongside the usual storefronts, so it is worth comparing before paying full price.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much is 1,000 V-Bucks?

There is no longer a 1,000 V-Bucks pack. The $8.99 tier that used to contain 1,000 now contains 800.

How much is 2,800 V-Bucks in dollars?

It used to be the $22.99 pack, which now holds 2,400. Gift cards printed with 2,800 still redeem for 2,800.

How much is 13,500 V-Bucks?

That was the old $89.99 pack. The same money now buys 12,500, which remains the cheapest rate per V-Buck.

Did V-Bucks get more expensive or did packs get smaller?

Technically the second, which produces the first. Dollar prices held steady while pack contents shrank, so the cost per V-Buck rose.

Is the Battle Pass cheaper now?

In V-Bucks, yes, 800 instead of 1,000. But completing it returns only 800, so the surplus that used to fund the next season is gone.

Are my old gift cards still valid?

Yes. Epic confirmed existing cards redeem at their printed amounts and are unaffected by the change.

Can you still get V-Bucks without paying?

Through the Battle Pass and Save the World, yes, though the amounts are smaller than they were. Anything advertising free V-Bucks outside those routes is covered in free V-Bucks, what actually works.

Buy the Tier Above What You Need

The maths after March 2026 rewards buying in fewer, larger transactions and punishes topping up in small amounts. Work out what you actually want to spend the currency on first, then buy the tier that covers it in one go, because the exact-amount option costs nearly three times the rate of the largest pack.

And check the printed amount on a card against the current pack sizes before you buy, because right now the old denominations can work out ahead. You can browse Fortnite V-Bucks cards and compare the two.