What is the best gacha pack for my budget?

RipIndex ranks every pack it tracks into price bands and measures realized 7-day cash-back — what real recorded opens actually paid, valued at each site's own instant buyback. The band winner is the pack whose measured cash-back leads with a 95% confidence interval that clears the runner-up's. It is the best of the options, and still negative-EV.

Is any gacha pack positive-EV?

No. Every pack on every site RipIndex tracks is negative-EV by design — the house keeps an edge. A short-window reading above breakeven is sampling luck on a heavy-tailed game, not an edge you can keep.

How does RipIndex rank packs across sites?

Only measured data ranks: realized 7-day cash-back at each site's own instant buyback, with at least 200 recorded pulls to compete. Published or theoretical odds never rank. Packs without an instant buyback or without a per-pull feed display but cannot rank. Rankings are never influenced by referral, partnership, or advertising.

Best pack for your budget

Pick a budget. Every option is still −EV.

Phygitals Starter Pack · Football

91.9%

realized cash-back · 7 days

to open$10

pulls measured681

cash-out rate100%

95% confidence86.6–97.3%

1994 Flair Basketball Michael Jordan #326 PSA 7 NRMT

advertised top chase

$50

1994 Flair Basketball Michael Jordan #326 PSA 7 NRMT

advertised — odds apply

Open at Phygitals ↗

CONTENDERS

90.4%

GachaPull

One Piece OP17 JP Rip

$1.5 · 510 pulls
CI 58.3–122.6%

top hit $120

Open at GachaPull ↗

77.4%

Courtyard

Pokémon Basic Pack

$15 · 20,631 pulls
CI 77.0–77.7%

chase $145

Open at Courtyard ↗

How the spotlight works

Ranked by realized cash-back over the last 7 days — what real opens actually paid, valued at each site's own instant buyback, as a share of pack price. a band is only called when the leader's 95% CI clears the runner-up's; overlapping CIs read too close to call. Packs need 200+ measured pulls to compete; published/theoretical EV never ranks; packs without a per-pull feed to measure (Beezie) display unranked; sold-out packs and thin samples display but cannot compete. Neutrality: rankings are computed from measured pulls only — never influenced by referral, partnership, or advertising. And the part that never changes: every pack on every site is negative-EV by design. "Best EV" here is relative — the option that loses the least on average within its band. A short-window read above breakeven is sampling luck on a heavy-tailed game, not an edge you can keep. Data refreshed Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:24:56 GMT · full write-up: methodology.