Guide
PoE2 currency exchange, explained
Path of Exile 2 has dozens of currencies that trade against one another. Rather than memorise every pair, it helps to think of one anchor — the Exalted Orb — and read every other currency as a ratio against it.
Pricing against an anchor
Because Exalted is in constant demand and trades in small amounts, players use it as the unit of account. A price like "0.5 Exalted" or "150 Exalted" is just that currency's ratio to the anchor. The high-value Divine Orb is the exception people quote big trades in — see the Divine to Exalted ratio guide.
Liquidity and spread
A deep, actively-traded market fills quickly and the gap between buy and sell prices is usually small. A thin market has fewer listings and a wider gap, so a stale quote costs you more. That is why the tracker surfaces how many samples a market had and how fresh its latest reading is.
Official hourly data vs the live price
The official feed publishes, for each completed hour, how much of each side of a market traded, plus that hour's lowest and highest single trade. The price on this site is the traded-volume ratio — one side's traded amount divided by the other's — so one stray or mistyped trade barely moves it. The low and high are exactly those single trades at the extremes, so they are shown only as context. Either way the data is delayed: it is not the price you can execute right now. The tracker treats it as historical context and asks you to enter the live price you actually see.
A simple workflow
- Open the market radar to find currencies that are actually moving.
- Open the currency index and pick that market to read its latest hourly price, typical 24h band and 24h move.
- Check the live in-game price and enter it as your working price.
- Plan a conservative entry and exit for the holding window you want.
FAQ
- What is the currency exchange in PoE2?
- It is how players swap one currency for another in bulk. Because everything trades against everything, prices are usually expressed against a common anchor — in practice the Exalted Orb — so a single ratio tells you what something costs.
- Why is everything priced in Exalted Orbs?
- Exalted is the most liquid, everyday currency, which makes it a convenient yardstick. Quoting prices in Exalted keeps them easy to compare and act on, the same way a market quotes everything in one base currency.
- Are the prices on this site the price I will pay?
- No. Each price is the last completed hour's traded-volume ratio — the amount traded on one side divided by the amount traded on the other — with the active source labelled in the market radar. It is not an hour's low or high: those are single trades at the extremes. Use it as context and always confirm the live price in game before trading — thin markets can move between the last completed hour and now.