How Adopt Me Values Work and Why Value Sites Disagree
A value is the price players agree a pet is worth in trades; the game itself never publishes one. Demand, how many copies exist and the pet's version — neon, mega, Fly and Ride — move it. Every value site uses its own scale, so check both sides of a trade on the same list.
Nobody at Uplift Games decides that a Frost Dragon is worth more than a Shadow Dragon. Values are built by players: value sites watch which trades actually go through and turn them into points. That is why a value is a market agreement, and why it moves every day.
Who sets values if the game doesn't
The game only does one thing here: it notices lopsided trades. In a normal trade you get an "unfair" warning and 15 extra seconds to think. In the Trading Hub a listing or offer that is too unbalanced simply won't go through. The game never shows the numbers behind that check.
Everything else comes from players. A pet's value depends on three things: how many people want it, how many copies exist, and which version it is.
What pushes a value up or down
Demand beats rarity
Demand is how many players would take the pet right now. A legendary nobody asks for trades below a popular ultra-rare. Two pets with the same number are not equal if one gets snapped up in a minute and the other sits for a week. That second kind has its own guide: How to Get Rid of Hard to Trade (HTT) Pets in Adopt Me.
Supply: how many are left
Once a pet leaves the game, no new copies appear. Shadow Dragon was sold during Halloween 2019 for 1,000 Robux and has been trade-only ever since. Supply also shrinks: since September 2025 the Pet Releaser swaps pets for tickets, and a released pet is gone for good.
The opposite happens too. An event pet that everyone farmed stays cheap, however cute it is.
Launch-week hype
A brand-new pet is worth whatever the most impatient players will pay. A week or two later there are more copies around and the number settles. We have traded a solid pet for the pet of the week and watched it slide afterwards. When paying that premium makes sense is covered in How Much to Overpay for Your Dream Pet in Adopt Me.
What FR, F, R, NFR and MFR mean
The letters next to a pet show its potions and version. Fly-A-Pet and Ride-A-Pet potions make a pet fly or rideable forever, so for cheap and mid pets FR is almost always worth more. Top pets flip that: even a normal no-potion Frost Dragon is 103 against 100 for FR, and expensive megas flip it harder: a no-potion mega is rarer, and for most top pets it is worth more than the MFR. Check the version in the table, not by habit.
| Label | Meaning | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| R | rideable | Ride-A-Pet Potion, 130 Robux in Sky Castle |
| F | flyable | Fly-A-Pet Potion, 255 Robux |
| FR | fly and ride | both potions on one pet |
| No Potion, NP | no potions | the pet as it hatched |
| NFR | neon with fly and ride | neon made from four grown pets |
| MFR | mega neon with fly and ride | mega made from four neons |
You can see it in the table: a Frost Dragon mega with both potions is 443, while a no-potion mega is 797.
A detail many players miss: if even one of the four pets you fuse into a neon can fly or ride, the neon keeps that ability. The same goes for megas.
The usual mix-up is NFR. In trading and on value lists it means Neon Fly Ride, not "no FR". A pet without potions is labeled No Potion.
Why neons and megas cost so much more
A neon is made in the Neon Cave from four full grown pets of the same species. A mega comes from four neons grown to the last neon stage, Luminous. One mega eats 16 regular pets and a lot of hours of care.
That shows in the numbers. Frost Dragon FR is 100, neon FR is 174, mega FR is 443. To see how many pets and how much time your neon needs, use the neon calculator.
Does pet age change the value
Barely. Regular pets go Newborn, Junior, Pre-Teen, Teen, Post-Teen, Full Grown; neons go Reborn, Twinkle, Sparkle, Flare, Sunshine, Luminous. A newborn and a full grown copy of the same pet trade for roughly the same.
The exception is a buyer making a neon right now: a full grown pet saves them the grind, and they may add a little for it. Age-Up Potions don't help here, because they can't be traded and don't work on full grown pets.
There is a second kind of age: how long a pet has been out of the shop. Old retired pets are often expensive because nobody can get new ones, and there are fewer every year.
Why value sites show different numbers
A pet can be 40 on one site and 3 on another without anyone lying. The gap usually comes from four things.
- Different scales. Each site counts in its own points, like centimeters and inches: different numbers, same length. Only compare numbers from the same list.
- Different update timing. Some lists recalculate daily, others adjust a pet once enough trades pile up.
- Different variant premiums. Sites argue more about how much extra a neon or a no-potion pet is worth than about the pet itself.
- The cheapest pets. Their value hits each site's minimum step, so the spread there is the widest.
Once the scales are lined up, the lists mostly agree: the expensive pets come in the same order. They differ on details, and "is Frost worth more than Shadow" usually gets the same answer everywhere.
How to read our value table
We combine several open value lists into a single scale. That way one site suddenly pumping or dropping a pet doesn't drag our number with it.
- The update date is on every page with values. Check it before a big trade.
- The variant switch covers regular, neon, mega and potions. It remembers your choice and changes every number on the page.
- "Sources disagree" marks a pet the lists fight over. You get a range instead of one number, and we'd trade that pet on demand rather than on the figure.
The trap people fall into most: typing a number from another site's screenshot into the trade calculator. The calculator works on our scale, the screenshot on someone else's, and a win turns into a loss out of nowhere.
Pets in this guide
Shown: Normal · Fly Ride
Questions
Are there official Adopt Me values?
No. The game shows an unfair-trade warning and blocks very lopsided Trading Hub listings, but it never shows prices. Every value list is made by players watching which trades go through.
Which value site is correct?
None of them is official, and each runs on its own scale and update schedule, so their numbers will never match one to one. Pick one list and price both your pet and the offer on it.
Why did my pet's value change overnight?
Demand moved. The big swings usually come after the Friday update, when new pets drop, and when a pet leaves the game. One trade doesn't move a value; a wave of similar trades does.
What do FR, NFR and MFR mean?
FR is a pet with both Fly and Ride potions. NFR is a neon with both, MFR is a mega neon with both. A pet with no potions is usually labeled No Potion or NP.
Does pet age affect value in Adopt Me?
Barely. A newborn and a full grown copy of the same pet trade for about the same. Someone making a neon right now may add a little for full grown to save time.