AquaticPlantPriceIndex

Know a fair aquarium plant price before you buy.

The same plant sells as a tissue-culture cup, a mature pot, a bare-root rhizome or a stem bundle at very different prices. We track 3514 live-plant listings at 4 US vendors daily and compare prices within each form — never across. 195 species and varieties compared as of October 19, 2026.

Sticker prices are the wrong way to compare aquarium plants. A $7 tissue-culture cup of Monte Carlo and a $15 mature pot are different products: different size, different farm cost, different melt risk. Any "cheapest Monte Carlo" answer that mixes them is misleading. So this site's core rule is form-factor honesty: every price comparison groups listings by how the plant is actually sold — tissue-culture cup, potted, bare root/rhizome, stem bundle, moss portion, floater portion — and prices are only ranked inside a group.

For each species and form we show three numbers: the low (cheapest current listing — a real price you can go buy today), the median (the best anchor for "what does this normally cost"), and the high. Listings that bundle several units ("3 pots") are divided down to a per-unit price; listings whose unit count we can't verify are shown at their lot price and kept out of the per-unit stats rather than guessed. Multi-species bundle products are excluded entirely — they aren't a single price point.

Prices are collected once a day from each vendor's public catalog, so everything here is at most a day old. The methodology page covers exactly what we track and how form-factor normalization works.

Species tracked
195
Plant listings
3514
Vendors tracked
4
Updated
October 19, 2026

Browse by type

Bucephalandra (31) · Anubias (21) · Cryptocoryne (19) · Ferns (6) · Swords (19) · Mosses (12) · Stem plants (58) · Carpeting plants (9) · Floaters (6) · Rosette & other (17)

Most-listed plants

PlantTypeTop form LowMedianHigh ListingsVendors
Java Fern Ferns Potted $4.86 $12.49 $22.99 111 4
Anubias Barteri Anubias Potted $5.67 $9.99 $29.99 98 4
Amazon Sword Swords Form not stated $4.53 $10.61 $20.61 87 4
Alternanthera Reineckii Stem plants Form not stated $6.99 $7.49 $13.99 77 4
Christmas Moss Mosses Moss portion / mat $4.14 $11.51 $18.99 47 4
Staurogyne Repens Carpeting plants Tissue-culture cup $7.99 $14.99 $120.00 46 4
Anubias Nana Petite Anubias Mounted on hardscape $10.00 $13.99 $39.99 45 4
Dwarf Hairgrass Carpeting plants Tissue-culture cup $9.99 $14.79 $109.99 45 4
Anubias Barteri var. Nana Anubias Potted $7.00 $8.25 $23.99 45 4
Hygrophila Corymbosa (incl. 'Siamensis') Stem plants Potted $6.72 $12.19 $19.99 41 4
Cryptocoryne Wendtii Cryptocoryne Potted $11.02 $12.99 $19.99 40 4
Myriophyllum Stem plants Tissue-culture cup $9.99 $13.99 $139.99 37 4
Bucephalandra Kedagang Bucephalandra Potted $19.99 $19.99 $19.99 37 4
Vallisneria Rosette & other Form not stated $1.28 $2.63 $16.91 36 4
Hydrocotyle Tripartita (Japan Dwarf Pennywort) Stem plants Tissue-culture cup $10.99 $34.99 $99.99 31 4
Rotala Rotundifolia Stem plants Form not stated $5.20 $6.99 $10.99 30 4
Bolbitis Heudelotii (African Water Fern) Ferns Potted $5.95 $11.82 $19.99 29 3
Monte Carlo Carpeting plants Tissue-culture cup $9.43 $12.02 $169.99 27 4
Rotala Macrandra Stem plants Tissue-culture cup $9.99 $12.99 $89.99 27 3
Bucephalandra Green Wavy Bucephalandra Potted $14.99 $19.99 $169.99 26 3
Dwarf Sagittaria Rosette & other Form not stated $1.13 $2.68 $13.58 25 4
Dwarf Baby Tears (HC Cuba) Carpeting plants Potted $6.30 $6.83 $11.51 23 4
Anubias Minima Anubias Potted $12.16 $14.99 $23.99 23 3
Micro Sword (Lilaeopsis) Carpeting plants Potted $12.41 $14.20 $15.99 23 4
Ludwigia Repens Stem plants Potted $3.84 $11.51 $15.99 22 4
Limnophila Aromatica Stem plants Potted $8.28 $12.19 $19.99 20 4
Cryptocoryne Undulata Cryptocoryne Tissue-culture cup $9.99 $12.99 $14.99 20 3
Bucephalandra Theia Bucephalandra Potted $14.99 $17.49 $169.99 18 3
Bacopa Monnieri Stem plants Form not stated $6.99 $6.99 $9.99 18 4
Anubias Congensis Anubias Potted $6.99 $8.99 $23.99 18 4

Low/median/high are per-unit prices within the species' most-listed form factor; other forms are on each plant's page.

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