What sneaker bots cost in 2026, with the published numbers

The published prices, side by side

Every number below was read from the vendor’s own page on 19 September 2026 and is linked in the sources at the end. Prices in this category move, and a few of these pages carry a sale banner that has been up for a while, so treat this as a snapshot with a date on it rather than a permanent fact.

Two of those entries are not really competitors to each other. A desktop all-in-one bot and a Draw entry app are solving different problems, and the table is more useful as a map of what the money buys than as a ranking.

Renewal is the number, not the sticker

Almost everything here is a subscription, so the honest comparison is twelve months of holding the tool rather than the first payment.

• Nike Shoe Bot: $79.99 a month is $959.88 across a year. Two six-month terms at the $499 list price are $998. At the $349 sale price they are $698.
• AIO Bot: two six-month terms at $299 are $598.
• Cybersole: £50 a month, rolling, is £600. The site advertises discounts on six month and annual terms, which it does not publish a figure for.
• Swft: $199.99 paid annually. The same year bought monthly is $359.88, bought in three-month blocks $299.96, and in six-month blocks $239.98.

Swft’s own ladder is the clearest illustration of how these products are priced. The identical twelve months costs between $199.99 and $359.88 depending only on the commitment you make up front. That spread, about 80 percent, is larger than the gap between some of the products.

The costs that are not on the pricing page

A desktop bot’s listed price is for software only. Two things sit outside it, and on a serious release they are not optional.

Proxies. A desktop all-in-one bot makes many simultaneous requests, and retailers rate limit a single address. Proxies spread those requests out. They are bought from proxy companies, not from the bot vendor, on their own subscription, and the quality tiers vary enormously. None of the prices in the table above include any.

Somewhere to run it. A bot has to be awake when the release happens, which for a lot of people means a rented Windows server rather than a laptop that sleeps. That is another monthly bill from another company.

There is also a cost that never appears on any invoice: the time. Configuring tasks, testing profiles, keeping proxies healthy and reinstalling after a site change is ongoing work. Some people genuinely enjoy that part. If you do not, it is worth pricing at something rather than at zero.

An iOS autocheckout app like Swft removes the proxy and server line items, because a phone app cannot use them anyway. The same is true of Laced. That is a real saving, and it comes attached to a real reduction in what the tool can do, which we set out honestly in what a mobile sneaker bot is, and what a phone cannot do.

Being fair to the desktop side

Desktop bots are expensive because they do more. Three things in particular are worth the money if you need them.

Retailer coverage. Cybersole publishes support for more than 1,350 stores. If you buy across Nike, Shopify sites, footwear chains and everything else, one desktop tool replaces a drawer full of apps.

Concurrency. Hundreds of parallel tasks is the mechanism these products are sold on, and nothing running on a phone comes close.

Speed on first come, first served releases. When a product page opens and the fastest checkout wins, a well-configured desktop bot on a good connection will get there before a person. That is the whole category’s original reason for existing, and it still works.

Laced does none of those three. It is worth saying plainly rather than burying, and if any of the three is what you need, the price difference is not the deciding factor.

What Laced costs, and what the money buys

One billing profile is free, which means you can test the whole flow before paying anything. Paid tiers add billing profiles: five, ten and twenty. The twenty profile plan is $74.99 on the App Store and $79.99 on Google Play, and every tier is an auto renewing subscription billed by the store, so you cancel it in your Apple or Google account settings. The current figures for every tier are on the plans page.

There is no proxy bill, no renewal key sold separately and no hardware, because none of that is yours to run. Laced carries that cost on its own side; what you pay is the plan. It puts multiple entries into a Nike SNKRS draw: a profile added once and validated in up to sixty seconds, releases and sizes picked from a seven-day calendar, entries started a few minutes before the draw opens. The full walkthrough covers the sequence, and the app is on both stores.

What the extra profiles buy is more entries into a release. They do not change the odds on any single entry, because a Draw selects at random at the close and no product changes that. If that mechanic is new to you, start with how Nike SNKRS draws work, because it decides which side of this comparison is even relevant to you. And if the distribution differences in the right hand column of the table caught your eye, the APK question has its own page: iOS sneaker bots and the APK problem.

Work out your own number

Four steps, five minutes.

1. Annualise. Take the monthly price and multiply by twelve, or the term price by the number of terms in a year. Use the renewal price, not the sale price.
2. Add the infrastructure. For anything desktop, add proxies and a machine. For anything on a phone, this line is zero.
3. Count the releases you would genuinely enter. Be realistic. Ten a year is a normal answer.
4. Divide. Cost per release you would actually use is the only number that compares products that do different jobs.

Run that on a $598 desktop year across ten releases and the per release figure is close to $60 before proxies. Run it on a free profile and it is nothing. Run it on a hundred releases across six retailers and the desktop answer looks very different. The arithmetic is the point, not the conclusion.

The short version

Desktop all-in-one bots publish $299 to $499 for six months, or around $80 a month, and none of those figures include the proxies and hosting they need. An iOS autocheckout subscription is roughly $200 to $360 a year depending on commitment. Laced starts at nothing for one profile and is billed by the store. They are not the same product, so compare cost per release you would actually enter, and be honest with yourself about how many that is.