How to Buy PUBG Mobile UC in 2026 — Every Official Top-Up Route

PUBG Mobile has been running for eight years and the top-up screen still confuses people — mostly because there is more than one of it. You can buy UC inside the game, you can buy it on Midasbuy (Tencent’s own top-up site), and you can buy it through a long tail of third-party sellers whose prices look impossible for a reason. On top of that, PUBG Mobile is not one game but several regional builds that do not share a wallet, so it is genuinely possible to pay for UC and have it land somewhere you cannot reach it. Here is the whole thing laid out: where your Player ID lives, what each UC pack really contains, which route costs less, and exactly where a Google Play, Apple or Razer Gold gift card fits in.

What UC actually buys

UC — Unknown Cash — is PUBG Mobile’s only paid currency, and unlike most gacha games there is no second currency to convert it into. What you buy is what you spend. It sits on your account rather than your device, so it follows you from phone to tablet as long as you sign in with the same linked account.

• The Royale Pass — the seasonal reward track, and the single most common reason players top up. The paid tiers and their UC price change from season to season, so check the current price on the RP screen rather than assuming last season’s number.
• Royale Pass ranks — you can buy levels outright if a season is ending and your track is not finished.
• Crates, lucky spins and draw events — the cosmetic gambling side of the game, where the headline gun skins and mythic outfits live.
• Shop outfits, emotes, gun skins and vehicle skins bought directly, with no draw involved.
• Utility items — name change cards, character rename vouchers, and similar one-off account tools.

The version trap: Global, BGMI, KR and the rest

This is the mistake that costs people real money, and it is worth understanding before you type a single digit of your Player ID. “PUBG Mobile” is a family of separate regional builds. They are different apps, with different servers, different accounts and — crucially — separate UC balances.

On Midasbuy this matters twice, because the site asks you to choose the game before it asks for your ID. If you play the Global build and select BGMI, the UC will be delivered — correctly, to a BGMI account — and support will not undo it. Read the game title at the top of the page as carefully as you read the pack price.

Find your Player ID first

Every top-up route outside the game itself needs your numeric Player ID (sometimes shown as Character ID or UID). It is permanent, it is not secret, and it is the only piece of account information any legitimate top-up will ever ask for.

1. Open PUBG Mobile and stay in the lobby
   You do not need to be in a match or in any menu — the lobby is enough.
2. Tap your avatar or name in the top-left corner
   This opens your player profile card.
3. Read the number under your nickname
   Your ID sits directly beneath your in-game name. It is a long numeric string that never changes, even if you rename your character.
4. Use the copy button rather than retyping it
   There is a small copy icon next to the ID. One wrong digit sends the UC to a stranger’s account, and that transaction is final — so copy and paste it every time.
5. Check it again at the confirmation screen
   Midasbuy shows the nickname attached to the ID you entered before you pay. If that nickname is not yours, stop and re-check the number.

Every official way to buy UC

The honest summary: in-game is the most convenient, Midasbuy is usually the better value. Midasbuy skips the app-store commission and runs frequent promotions — a percentage off the larger packs, extra bonus UC, and occasional first-purchase offers — which is why experienced players default to it and only top up in-game when they are mid-session and impatient.

How to top up in-game (Android & iOS)

1. Redeem your gift card to the right store account first
   On Android, redeem a Google Play card in the Play Store; on iPhone, redeem an Apple gift card in the App Store. The balance has to exist before you reach the payment sheet.
2. Open PUBG Mobile and tap the UC icon
   It is the yellow UC symbol on the lobby screen, beside your currency totals.
3. Choose your pack
   The six standard tiers appear with their bonus amounts shown as a separate figure. Any active event bonus is displayed here too.
4. Confirm through the store sheet
   Google Play or Apple takes over at this point. Your redeemed balance is used before any card on file, so a topped-up wallet covers it with no card details entered.
5. Watch the UC counter update
   It should change within seconds. If it does not, close and reopen the game before assuming anything has gone wrong — the counter refreshes on load.

How to top up on Midasbuy

1. Go to midasbuy.com and pick your country
   The country selector changes the currency, the available payment methods and sometimes the promotions. Choose the country your payment method belongs to.
2. Select PUBG Mobile — and check it is the right build
   Global, BGMI and the regional builds each have their own page. This is the step people get wrong.
3. Enter your Player ID
   Paste the number you copied from the lobby. Midasbuy looks it up and shows the nickname on that account.
4. Verify the nickname before going further
   If it is not your in-game name, you have a wrong digit. Fix it now — after payment, nothing can be reversed.
5. Choose your pack and payment method
   Razer Gold appears as a payment option in most regions, alongside cards, PayPal and local e-wallets. Pick the pack after checking whether a discount or bonus-UC promo is running.
6. Pay, then check the game
   Delivery is typically well under a minute. Reopen PUBG Mobile if the counter has not moved — you do not need to be logged out for the UC to arrive.

The six UC packs and the bonus math

PUBG Mobile’s pack structure has been stable for years: a base amount plus a bonus that grows with the size of the pack. The headline number you see in the shop is already base plus bonus combined, which is why the totals look untidy.

Two things follow from that table. First, the uplift is real but it is front-loaded into the expensive packs — buying big is only better value if you were going to spend that much anyway, which is the oldest trick in the currency-pack playbook. Second, there is a detail that catches people out during rebate events: bonus UC generally does not count toward cumulative spend targets. If an event promises a reward at 3,000 UC purchased, the 850 bonus from a 3,850 pack usually will not help you get there. Read the event terms rather than the pack headline.

Which gift card pays for which route

What to spend your first UC on

If you have never topped up before, the value ordering is not close. The Royale Pass is a fixed-price reward track that pays out over a whole season and returns a chunk of UC through its own reward tiers as you level it. Crates and draws are variable-outcome purchases where the expected value is, by design, worse than what you paid.

• Check the current season’s Royale Pass price on the RP screen — it changes between seasons.
• Count how much of the season is left; a pass bought in the final week rarely completes.
• If you are chasing a specific skin from a draw, look up the published odds before deciding a budget.
• Set the budget in UC, not in “just one more spin”.

How to spot a UC top-up scam

PUBG Mobile is one of the most-targeted games for top-up fraud, for the same reason it is popular: a huge, young, mobile-first player base that pays with prepaid credit. The scams are formulaic once you know the shape of them.

Before you top up — the 60-second check

• You know which build you play — Global, BGMI, KR, VN or TW — and you have selected it correctly.
• Your Player ID is copied from the lobby, not typed from memory.
• The nickname shown at checkout matches your in-game name.
• Your gift card region matches the store or wallet region you are paying from.
• You have checked whether a rebate event or Midasbuy promo is running.
• Your account is linked to Facebook, Google, X or Game Center — not left as a guest account.
• You know what you are buying the UC for, and the pack you chose covers it without a large leftover.

Troubleshooting a top-up

Frequently Asked Questions