Tarantula Price Statistics (2026)

Last updated: October 20, 2026

These numbers come from the listings Tarantula List checks three times a day across US tarantula vendors. They cover 351 daily snapshots from November 4, 2025 to October 20, 2026, about 9,104 individual listings in all. Every figure is an asking price from a public listing, not what anyone actually paid. How the numbers were put together, and what they leave out, is at the bottom of the page.

Key numbers

• On October 20, 2026, 23 US vendors tracked by Tarantula List had 2,199 tarantulas listed for sale, covering 539 species.
• The median asking price for a tarantula was $60.
• 40% of listed tarantulas were under $50, and 74% were under $100.
• 244 of the 539 species (45%) were available from only one vendor.
• A tarantula sold as female was listed at a median of 2.0 times the price of an unsexed one of the same species and size, across 39 species.
• Across 32 common species, sling prices changed by a median of +1% over the year.
• At the 12 vendors tracked all year, about 1,203 tarantulas were listed on a typical day from May to September, compared with about 978 from November to March.
• Half of all listings stayed up for 35 days or less.

What common tarantulas cost

Median asking price over the year for the most-listed species. Slings are under 1 inch and juveniles are 1 to 3 inches, both counting only unsexed listings. The female column is any listing sold as female, at any size. Color forms and morphotypes, such as RCF G. rosea or M2 A. avicularia, are left out because they sell for more than the plain species.

Per-species figures are also available as a CSV file.

How much more females cost

Across 39 species with enough listings to compare, a tarantula sold as female was listed at a median of 2.0 times the price of an unsexed tarantula of the same species at 2 inches or larger. The gap was largest for Psalmopoeus irminia (4.0x), Hysterocrates gigas (3.4x), Psalmopoeus cambridgei (3.4x), and smallest for Brachypelma boehmei (1.3x), Tliltocatl verdezi (1.3x), Aphonopelma seemanni (1.2x).

Most listings don't state a sex at all, and only 12% of today's listings say female. Some unsexed listings are likely males, which would pull the unsexed price down a little.

The same species, different prices

Prices for the same tarantula at the same size vary a lot between vendors. These are unsexed slings (under 1 inch) listed on October 20, 2026, for species with at least six such listings that day:

Shipping usually costs more than the price difference, so the cheapest listing isn't always the cheapest order. The Cart Builder compares totals including shipping.

Availability

On October 20, 2026, the species carried by the most vendors were Chilobrachys natanicharum (18), Pterinochilus murinus (17), Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (15), Grammostola pulchripes (15), Grammostola rosea (15), Lasiodora parahybana (15), Monocentropus balfouri (15), Psalmopoeus cambridgei (15). At the other end, 244 species (45%) were listed by only one vendor.

Over the year

Prices were mostly flat. For slings of 32 common species at the 12 vendors tracked all year, the median price change between the first and last two months was +1%. The biggest moves were Hysterocrates gigas from $28 to $45; Avicularia avicularia from $25 to $38; Acanthoscurria geniculata from $20 to $28; Tliltocatl vagans from $19 to $12; Tliltocatl albopilosus from $18 to $12.

Stock grew in spring. At those same 12 vendors, the number of tarantulas listed on an average day rose from about 978 (November to March) to about 1,203 (May to September), and the number of species from about 364 to about 415.

Half of all listings stayed up for 35 days or less. A quarter came down within 9 days, and a quarter stayed up for 93 days or more. A listing coming down usually means it sold, but vendors also pull and relist items, so this measures how long listings stay up, not how fast tarantulas sell. 17% of listings changed price while they were up.

How these numbers were made

• Source: the public listings of the US tarantula vendors Tarantula List tracks, checked three times a day and saved once a day. 27 vendors appear at some point in the period; 12 were tracked for all of it. Comparisons over time use only those 12, so vendors added to the site partway through don't look like market growth.
• Asking prices only. These are the prices on the listings, before shipping and before any discount codes. They are not sale prices.
• Tarantulas only. Feeders, supplies, enclosures, freebies, multi-packs, group lots and non-tarantula species are left out.
• Sizes and sex come from listing titles. Sizes are read from the stated leg span. A listing counts as female or male only if the title says so.
• Each listing is counted once for price figures, at the price it had when first seen.
• Cleaned: broken listings from scraper errors were removed. Medians are used throughout so a few unusual prices don't skew the results.
• Not covered: expos, auctions, private sales, and vendors outside the US or not tracked by the site.

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