Courier Contracts
Find profitable courier contracts — compare reward vs collateral ROI across regions.
Courier Contract Analysis
ISK Scout's courier engine has simulated 98 courier contracts across 53 region pairs, factoring in gatecamp detection, fail probability from PvP kill density, and margin erosion over expected delivery time. Risk distribution: 0 low-risk, 60 moderate-risk, 38 high-risk. Combined net profit potential 755.4M on 3.14B total collateral, yielding an average collateral ROI of 42.8%. The highest-ROI contract is Thakala 4 - Moon 17 - Expert Distribution Warehouse → Dodixie IX at 312.8%. All figures are precomputed every 5 minutes from ESI market and universe data, and re-simulated when your cargo, fee rate, or collateral settings change.
0% of the simulated contracts run on low-risk routes, and the average margin stays valid for about 5.3 hours after computation. Margins that survive several hours mean these contracts tolerate normal posting delays — you can post now and expect the economics to still hold while a hauler picks the job up.
About this tool
EVE Online courier contracts let you earn ISK without direct trading. You collect a reward to haul a client's cargo to a destination, posting collateral that gets paid out to the client if the cargo is lost. ISK Scout's courier analyzer scans active contracts every 5 minutes, evaluating reward, collateral, volume, and jumps as a single profile — and surfaces collateral ROI (%), ISK per jump, and gatecamp risk. For high-risk routes, contract splitting is recommended: instead of one large collateral wager, break it into multiple smaller contracts so a single loss doesn't blow up your capital. Filter by your ship's cargo capacity and ISK budget, and check the margin-validity window (how long the contract stays profitable before market drift hits).
View full FAQHow courier contracts are analyzed
Each contract is simulated by pulling market orders in both source and destination regions via ESI, running the order-matching arbitrage engine to find realized profit, then subtracting the recommended courier fee. Collateral equals the buy-side investment to protect against theft. Failure probability is derived from the route's aggregated danger score (security status, PvP kill density, gatecamp detection), which then determines the expected loss and risk-adjusted profit. Margin validity predicts how long the current margin stays positive given order-book depth and refresh frequency, so you know how long you have before the contract becomes unprofitable.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much collateral is safe?
- We recommend keeping any single contract under 30% of your liquid ISK. If the cargo is lost, that collateral is gone — never wager more than half your capital on a single hop. For high-risk routes, the tool auto-suggests splits that keep individual exposure under 10% of capital.
- How is the risk score calculated?
- Aggregated from each waypoint system's security level, recent ship/pod kills, and kills-per-jump ratio (0–100). Under 30 = safe, 31–60 = caution, 61+ = dangerous. Gatecamp detection adds extra weight when pod-kill ratio and hourly kill frequency are both elevated.
- How does contract splitting work?
- Based on risk and cargo volume, the tool recommends breaking one contract into N smaller ones. Splitting a 100M collateral contract into four 25M contracts caps a single loss at 25M. The tool computes the optimal split count and per-contract reward.