Financial Data
Minecraft revenue figures, marketplace earnings, and financial comparisons with other top-selling games.
Minecraft Total Revenue Since Launch
Estimated total revenue generated by Minecraft through game sales, marketplace, and merchandise from 2009 to present.
Minecraft Marketplace Revenue and Creator Earnings
Revenue data for the Minecraft Marketplace including creator payouts, Minecoin sales, and content economics.
Minecraft Revenue vs Other Top-Selling Games
How Minecraft's financial performance compares to GTA V, Fortnite, Roblox, and other top-grossing video games.
The numbers with a public source
Microsoft does not publish Minecraft revenue on its own, so lifetime and yearly revenue totals are estimates. They start from a few figures that were reported directly.
- US$2.5 billion
- The price Microsoft paid for Mojang, announced on September 15, 2014.
- Over 400 million copies
- Total game sales as of May 2026, the base for any estimate of game revenue.
- US$500 million
- Marketplace revenue by 2022, when GamesIndustry.biz also reported more than 1.7 billion content downloads.
- 230 million copies
- Sales of Grand Theft Auto V, the closest any other single game comes.
Minecraft and Tetris are both named as the best-selling game ever, depending on whether Tetris counts as one game or as a series of different versions.
Total revenue works through the estimate, Marketplace revenue covers Minecoins and creators, and the comparison with other top games puts the figures next to GTA V, Fortnite and Roblox.