Trade Routes
Profitable trade routes between EVE Online trade hubs. Order book depth analysis with reliability grades.
Route Overview
Updated 2m agoISK Scout is currently tracking 344 trade routes: 0 low-risk, 38 moderate-risk, and 306 high-risk. Across all routes the engine has computed 3,091 distinct profit opportunities with a combined potential of 18.17B. The top-earning route is Odebeinn V - Moon 5 - Kaalakiota Corporation Factory → Jita 4-4 at 1.61B. All figures are precomputed from real-time ESI market data with outlier filtering and order-matching simulation, refreshed every 5 minutes.
Right now 0% of tracked routes are rated safe, and the single best route accounts for 9% of the total profit pool. That is a risk-heavy board: most of the current profit sits behind low-security or camped corridors, so the danger score and gatecamp flags matter more than the headline ISK right now.
About this tool
EVE Online arbitrage is the practice of buying items at one trade hub and selling them at another for profit. ISK Scout's trade route scanner pulls live market data from CCP's official ESI API every 5 minutes, covering Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens, and Hek, plus selected remote stations. Unlike tools that compare median prices, ISK Scout simulates the actual order matching that happens when you fill orders at the destination — so loss-making trades are excluded automatically and the displayed profit is what you can realistically execute. Each route shows reliability grades (A–F) based on order book depth, top-order concentration, and historical price ranges, plus durability scores that estimate how long a margin will survive market drift. Gatecamp detection uses recent ship/pod kill ratios to warn about high-risk systems on the path. Use the cargo optimizer to load the most profitable mix that fits your ship's hold and ISK budget.
View full FAQHow profits are calculated
Each route is analyzed by pulling every market order in the source and destination regions from the EVE Swagger Interface (ESI). Orders are sanitized using interquartile-range outlier removal and minimum-volume filtering before being paired in a loss-zone-aware matching simulation: sell orders (ascending price) are consumed against buy orders (descending price) until the price curves cross, ensuring only realizable profits are reported. Reliability grades (A through F) deduct points for over-concentration on a single order, weighted-average deviation from lowest price, thin destination demand, and historical price anomalies. Durability grades (rigid / normal / fragile) measure how well the margin survives transport delays given order-book depth, market share, and refresh frequency.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is ISK Scout free to use?
- Yes. ISK Scout is free for all EVE Online players. You can browse routes, run reprocessing and manufacturing analysis, and use the cargo optimizer without an account. Logging in with EVE SSO unlocks personalized features like My Orders tracking and skill-based tax/fee auto-fill.
- How is this different from evetrade.space?
- evetrade.space compares prices between hubs based on top-of-book or median values. ISK Scout simulates order matching across the full order book, so it excludes trades where the destination buy orders lack depth or where you'd enter a loss zone partway through — the displayed profit is closer to what you can realistically take home.
- How often is the market data updated?
- Market data refreshes every 5 minutes from CCP's ESI API. Route summaries, courier routes, reprocessing, and manufacturing analyses are precomputed every 5 minutes and served from cache for instant response.