RuneScape statistics 2026: revenue, members & player counts
Old School RuneScape hit a record 240,756 players online at once on 3 August 2025. Jagex averaged 1.35 million daily paying members.
Old School RuneScape set its all-time record on 3 August 2025, with 240,756 people playing at once (NME). Across Old School and RuneScape 3, Jagex averaged 1.35 million daily paying members in 2025 and made £173m from continuing operations. RuneScape comes in two live versions: Old School RuneScape (OSRS), the 2007-era game Jagex brought back in 2013, and RuneScape 3 (RS3), the modern one.
RuneScape key statistics
- £173m: Jagex turnover from continuing operations in 2025, up from £145m in 2024.
- £93m: Jagex adjusted EBITDA in 2025, up from £76m in 2024.
- 1.35 million: average daily active paying members across OSRS and RS3 in 2025, up from 1.28 million in 2024.
- 3.5 million: total RuneScape subscribers in 2025, up from 3.2 million in 2024.
- 240,756: Old School RuneScape players online at the same time on 3 August 2025, the game’s record.
Jagex revenue and profit
Jagex turnover rose to £173m in 2025
- Turnover from continuing operations: £173m in 2025, up from £145m in 2024. The 2024 comparison is on the same continuing-operations basis.
- Adjusted EBITDA: £93m in 2025, up from £76m in 2024. That’s operating profit from continuing operations, excluding non-cash charges and one-off items.
- Net assets: £215.0m at the end of 2025, up from £162.9m.
- Most of the growth came from Old School RuneScape subscriptions, which more than offset softer RS3 membership revenue.
Members and subscribers
RuneScape averaged 1.35 million daily paying members in 2025
- Subscribers here means the average daily number of unique paying members across RS3 and OSRS.
- Daily active paying members averaged 1.35 million in 2025, up from 1.28 million in 2024.
- Total subscribers rose to about 3.5 million, up from 3.2 million.
- OSRS makes up a significant share of those paying members and drives most subscription revenue.
Player counts
Old School RuneScape hit 240,756 players at once
- 240,756 people were playing Old School RuneScape at the same time on Sunday 3 August 2025, a new record for the game (NME). Jagex celebrated that evening: “Today we broke our peak player count.”
- The record came a couple of weeks after the Varlamore: The Final Dawn update on 23 July 2025 (Dexerto).
- The previous record was 231,719, set in December 2024 during a League (VideoGamer).
- RuneScape 3 had around 26,000 players online at the moment Old School set its record (GameSpot).
- On a normal day in January 2026, around 175,000 people were playing Old School at once (BBC).
- Paid membership grew by about 30% during 2025 to “well over a million”, Jagex told the BBC.
Jagex ownership
- CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments agreed to buy Jagex from The Carlyle Group in a deal announced on 9 February 2024, reported to be worth about £900m (around $1.1 billion) (City A.M.).
RuneScape by year
| 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Jagex turnover (continuing operations) | £145m | £173m |
| Jagex adjusted EBITDA | £76m | £93m |
| Average daily paying members | 1.28 million | 1.35 million |
| Total subscribers | 3.2 million | 3.5 million |
| OSRS record players online | 231,719 (December) | 240,756 (3 August) |
RuneScape timeline
- 2024 — CVC and Haveli agree to buy Jagex for about £900m (announced 9 February); OSRS sets a record of 231,719 players online in December.
- 2025 — OSRS hits a record 240,756 players online (3 August); turnover reaches £173m and daily paying members average 1.35 million.