Star Citizen Ships Prices (Alpha 3.21) & where to buy or rent them

Star Citizen has a lot of amazing ships that you can already purchase in the game with in-game money! The plan is to eventually have all flyable ships be available in in-game stores to purchase with in-game money. CIG’s official policy is to add any new flyable ship within 90 days but this can sometime take longer if a patch release is delayed. There are some ships which are rare and exclusive or part of some event and they will not be on offered on sale again. However, these are few and far between and usually just a re-skin of some existing ship. Anyway, I highly recommended players buy ships and vehicles with in-game money rather than spending real money on them. Of course if you want to support CIG and the game’s development, then you can buy some ships but know that is strictly option beyond your first starter package.

If you are thinking of buying a ship with real money, use the last column which shows UEC/USD as a guide. The higher this value, the more bang for your buck you get. This is why I have added that column to help you maximize the value of your purchase.

In-game purchasable ships

In-game rent-able ships

Additional Notes on Rentals:

• Rental prices are for 1 Day
• Vantage Rentals have a kiosk at the following additional locations which is where they have the Cutlass Black, Prospector and ROC for rent:
  • ARC-L1 Station Refinery Deck
  • CRU-L1 Station Refinery Deck
  • HUR-L1 Station Refinery Deck
  • HUR-L2 Station Refinery Deck
  • MIC-L1 Station Refinery Deck
• Traveler Rentals a kiosk at the following additional locations which is where they have the Cutlass Black, Aveneger Titan and Freelancer for rent:
  • Baijini Point Cargo Deck
  • Everus Harbor Cargo Deck
  • Port Tressler Cargo Deck

Ship Value Graph

This graph shows the relative value of ship sin UEC vs. USD. As you can see, some ships give you far more bang for your buck than others. Note that these values may change over time and are not set in stone, we are still in alpha after all. This is simply been a graphical representation of the data in the above table.

Ships still in production

CIG apparently has been doing a good job with releasing ships as the list of pending ships is quite small compared to what is already flyable. Especially since a lot of them are just variants.

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Gary (Flanker)

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Gary has been "hard landing" into runways and driving his Mitsubishi Evo off of cliffs since the early 2000s. These days, he spends most of his precious hobby time with his favorite flight, racing and space simulations in VR.He also has an Engineering Degree in Computer Science which helps a lot with his obsession with optimizing PC hardware like CPUs, Graphics Cards, VR Headsets, HOTAS, Racing Wheels etc. for high end sims.