Tarkov Traders and Economy: Loyalty Requirements, Sell Rates and the Flea Market

Since patch 1.1.0.0, trader loyalty levels no longer ask you to spend money: all that counts is your PMC level and your reputation with that trader. The requirements, sell rates and prices on this page come from tarkov.dev game data pulled on October 6, 2026.

Spending money no longer levels up traders

You used to need hundreds of thousands of roubles in sales and purchases to unlock a trader's next level. Patch 1.1.0.0 removed that requirement entirely and rebalanced the level and reputation thresholds. Current requirements per trader (level / reputation):

Almost all of your reputation comes from quests, and quests pay it out in fixed steps: 0.1, 0.25, 0.75 or 1.5. The 7.9 you need for Prapor LL4 would take dozens of small quests, so the few 1.5 rep quests shorten that road a lot. Ragman LL4 needs level 42, which makes it the last LL4 you can reach. Jaeger LL4 is the earliest at level 33.

An item's base price sets what traders pay

A trader always pays the same share for an item: its base price times that trader's fixed rate. All 19,420 trader sell prices in the game data match this formula exactly.

Fence is convenient because he takes anything, but he pays less than half. Therapist gives you 494,700 roubles for a LEDX, Fence gives you 232,800. Dragging each item to the right trader after a raid can double what you walk away with.

The Flea Market opens at level 15, but some categories stay locked until 40

The Flea Market unlocks at PMC level 15 with no quest required. Not every category opens with it, though. According to the game data, most keys and every backpack need level 25, and 20 of the 22 injectors need level 30. Some valuable items, like the graphics card, can only be listed at level 40. On top of that, 1,383 of the 4,979 items can never be sold on the Flea at all. Physical Bitcoin is one of them: your best way to cash it in is Therapist, at 600,840 roubles each.

Once a category opens, the gap is huge. Best trader price against the Flea Market 24 hour average as of October 6, 2026 (before listing fees):

If you can't list something yet, don't rush it to Therapist or Fence. Holding a graphics card until level 40 is worth more than three times the roubles at today's prices.

Fence reputation comes from playing Scav

Fence reputation (Scav karma) works differently from the other traders. Every successful extract as a Scav gives only +0.01. Paid vehicle extracts on your PMC give about +0.20 the first time on a map, and that halves with every reuse on the same map. As a Scav, killing PMCs who have shot at Scavs gives +0.02 to +0.03, while killing another Scav costs you reputation.

The effects only change at whole numbers: 2.99 reputation behaves exactly like 2. At 6, Fence moves to his second loyalty level and opens a separate discounted sales tab. Kappa needs 3.