Gold Bar Price Today
$4,197.40 1 oz gold bar, gold value at spot
10 oz bar $41,974 · 1 kilo bar $134,950 · before any seller's premium
Gold spot $4,197.40/oz · updated
Quick answer: At the live gold price of $4,197.40 per troy ounce, the gold inside a 1 oz bar is worth $4,197.40. A 10 oz bar holds $41,974 of gold, and a 1 kilo bar holds $134,950. Those are spot values. A seller adds a premium on top, so the price on a real invoice is higher. This page prints no seller's premium. It gives you the spot value for every common size and a checker so you can work out the premium yourself.
| Bar | Grams | Troy oz | Gold value at spot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 gram | 1.00 | 0.0322 | $134.95 |
| 5 grams | 5.00 | 0.1608 | $674.75 |
| 10 grams | 10.00 | 0.3215 | $1,349.50 |
| 1 troy ounce | 31.10 | 1.0000 | $4,197.40 |
| 100 grams | 100.00 | 3.2151 | $13,495 |
| 10 troy ounces | 311.03 | 10.0000 | $41,974 |
| 1 kilogram | 1,000.00 | 32.1507 | $134,950 |
| 400 troy ounces (bank bar) | 12,441.39 | 400.0000 | $1,678,960 |
The table above multiplies the weight of each bar by the current spot price. It uses pure gold as the basis, so a bar marked slightly below .9999 holds a little less than the figure shown. The numbers refresh with the feed, and the stamp at the top of the page shows when they were last updated.
Price versus value
People say "gold bar price" and mean two different numbers. The first is the value of the gold in the bar. The second is the amount a seller asks for the bar. They are rarely the same number, and the gap between them is the part of the purchase you can actually shop around.
Spot value is arithmetic. A bar weighs a known amount, the market sets the price of an ounce, and multiplying them gives $4,197.40 for one ounce today. Nobody can argue with the multiplication. What they can argue about is everything added after it.
The asking price is spot value plus a premium. The premium pays for the things that turn a lump of metal into a product you can hold: refining, stamping, sealing a bar in packaging, shipping, insuring the parcel and the seller's own margin. Sellers set it themselves, which is why two sellers can quote different prices for the same bar on the same minute.
Here is how to think about it. If spot says $4,197.40 and a seller asks for more, the difference is the premium, and it is a cost you pay once, at purchase. If you later sell, you will usually be offered less than spot, because the buyer needs room to resell. The two differences together are the full cost of owning the bar for a short time. The guide on how much a gold bar is worth sets that out with a worked example.
A worked line, labelled example and not a quote: if the premium were 4 over spot, a 1 oz bar would be asked at $4,365.30, which is $167.90 above its spot value. That example is only here to show the arithmetic. Your seller's number will differ, and you are the one who has to ask for it in writing.
The checker works in one direction. You pick a size, enter the price a seller quoted, and it returns the dollars and the percentage over the spot value shown for that size. Run it before you pay, and run it again if a seller changes the quote on the phone. A price that moves when you ask for it in writing is information too.
A few habits make the checker more useful:
- Compare a quote at the same size. A 1 oz bar and a 10 oz bar have different premiums, so comparing across sizes tells you little.
- Compare the total, not the headline. Add shipping, insurance and any handling charge to the bar price before you check it against spot.
- Check the time. Spot moves during the day, and a quote from this morning was built on a different number.
- Ask whether the quote is for a payment method you actually plan to use, because a seller may quote differently for different ways of paying.
Why smaller bars cost more per ounce
A 1 g bar and a 1 kilo bar both need to be made, tested, packaged and sold. Most of those costs do not shrink with the weight of the gold.
Think of a seller's work on one bar. Someone has to stamp it with a serial number and a fineness mark. Someone seals it. Someone records it, stores it and later packs it for shipping. The labor and paperwork for a very small bar are close to the labor and paperwork for a large one, but they are spread over much less gold. That is why a small bar carries a larger share of its price in premium.
Packaging matters more for small bars as well. A 1 g bar sits in a card or blister that costs about the same to produce as one around a bigger bar. The card is a real cost on a bar worth little, and a rounding error on a bar worth far more.
Shipping and insurance follow the same pattern. A parcel is a parcel. A buyer who orders one 5 g bar and pays for delivery has paid for a whole delivery to receive very little gold. A buyer who orders a 100 g bar pays for the same delivery and receives twenty times as much.
Then there is demand. Small bars sell often and to many people, so sellers handle many small orders. Larger bars are fewer, and the buyers are often pricing carefully. Sellers compete harder where buyers compare closely. This is a general pattern, not a rule, and your quote is the only number that matters for your purchase.
None of this means a bigger bar is automatically better for you. A larger bar is harder to resell in part, because fewer buyers have the money to take it on at once, and it ties up more of your money in one object. The sizes in between exist for that reason. To see how each size behaves, start with the 1 oz gold bar page, move to the 10 oz gold bar page, then finish at the 1 kilo gold bar page.
Reading the table size by size
The smallest bars in the table are a gram and five grams. At today's spot, 1 g holds $134.95 of gold and 5 g holds $674.75. These are the sizes people buy as gifts or as a first small purchase, and they are also the sizes where the premium is the most noticeable part of the price.
At 10 g the spot value is $1,349.50, and at 100 g it is $13,495. The 100 g size sits between the small gift bars and the ounce sizes, and it is a common choice for a buyer who wants more gold than a coin gives without moving to a kilo.
The ounce sizes are 1 oz at $4,197.40 and 10 oz at $41,974. A troy ounce is not the same as the ounce you weigh flour in, so the gold bar weight guide explains the difference and shows the arithmetic in grams.
At the top of the table, a 1 kilo bar is $134,950 and a 400 oz bar is $1,678,960. The 400 oz size is the large bar that refiners and vaults deal in. A private buyer is unlikely to hold one, but it appears in the table because it shows how spot value scales: it is the same multiplication, with a bigger number of ounces.
Where to get a quote
Once you know the spot value for your size, the next step is asking for prices. The guide on how to buy gold bars walks through the steps in order: choose a size, ask for the total in writing, compare it with spot, check the delivery terms and verify the bar when it arrives. The guide on where to buy gold bars compares banks, big-box retailers, online dealers, coin shops and phone dealers on what each offers.
If you are weighing a warehouse club, read Costco gold bars. It covers what the retailer's own pages say about membership, limits and returns, and it shows how to run its quote through the checker. It prints no Costco price, because that price changes and is easy to get wrong.
What this can't tell you
This page can't tell you your seller's price. Every figure here is spot value, which is arithmetic from the live feed. The premium, the shipping and the buy-back price are set by the seller and change from one seller and one day to the next.
It also can't tell you where gold goes tomorrow. The number on the page is a snapshot taken when the page last refreshed, and we make no forecast. If you buy, buy because a quote makes sense against the spot value at the moment you are paying, not because of a guess about the next move.
Last, it can't tell you whether a particular bar is genuine. The seller is the first check, and the guide to how to tell if a gold bar is real covers the rest.
FAQ
What is the price of a 1 oz gold bar today?
The gold in a 1 oz bar is worth $4,197.40 at the current spot price. A seller adds a premium on top for making, packaging, shipping and margin, so the asking price is higher. Ask for the full total in writing and run it through the checker above.
Why is my quote higher than the price shown here?
The price shown is spot value, the worth of the gold alone. Your quote includes the seller's premium and often delivery and insurance. The difference is normal. What matters is how large it is, and the checker turns your quote into dollars over spot.
Is a bigger gold bar cheaper per ounce?
Often, yes, because costs such as stamping, packaging and shipping are spread across more gold. It is a general pattern, not a promise, and sellers set their own terms. Compare quotes at the same size, and read the 10 oz gold bar guide for the reasoning.
Does the price on this page change?
Yes. It follows the live gold feed, and the stamp near the top shows when the numbers were last refreshed. If you are about to pay a seller, check the spot value again at that moment, since a quote built on an earlier number may no longer match.
Keep reading
- how much a gold bar is worth: the spot value by size, and what you get back if you sell
- 1 oz gold bar: a familiar size, and how it compares with a coin
- gold bar weight: grams, troy ounces and kilos for each size
Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (GC=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated . Gold is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.