5,000 Stubs: the pack you should skip
The 5,000 pack is $4.99. Five 1,000 packs are $4.95 — the same Stubs for $0.04 less, at the cost of 4 extra checkouts. Per 1,000 Stubs the 5,000 pack (99.8¢) is the worst on the menu.
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MLB The Show Stubs Calculator: Stubs to USD, every pack price and card top-ups
This MLB The Show Stubs calculator converts Stubs to US dollars and back, finds the cheapest mix of packs for any Diamond Dynasty card or amount, and shows what the one-time 7,500-Stub offer saves. The short answer for MLB The Show 26: there are 6 repeatable Stubs packs, from 1,000 Stubs for $0.99 to 150,000 Stubs for $99.99, at the same prices on PlayStation and Xbox; 1,000 Stubs cost between 66.7¢ and 99.8¢; and the 5,000 pack is a trap — five 1,000 packs cost less.
By Noor Haddad, Data & Market Research LeadFigures checked by Layla FarahRates verified
Stubs → USD
$9.90
10,000 Stubs cost $9.90 as 10 × 1,000.
| Pack | × | Stubs | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 pack | 10 | 10,000 | $9.90 |
- Stubs you get
- 10,000
- Spare after the target
- 0
- Per 1,000 Stubs
- 99¢
- One pack instead
- 11,000 for $9.99
- Fewer checkouts: 1 × 11,000 for $9.99 — $0.09 more, 1 purchase instead of 10.
- Not bought the 7,500 one-time offer yet? It would cut this to $5.96 (3 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer). Tick the box to use it.
Price per 1,000 Stubs, worst to best
US prices before sales tax, read from the US PlayStation Store and matched to the cent by Microsoft’s US catalogue — the same six packs on both. Nintendo eShop prices were not checked.
MLB The Show 26 Stubs prices: every pack, and the price per 1,000 Stubs
All 6 repeatable packs and the one-time 7,500 offer at the US prices the PlayStation Store listed. Each row links to its US PlayStation Store listing.
| Stubs | Price | Per 1,000 | Stubs per $ | Vs the 1,000 pack | Can buy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.99 | 99¢ | 1,010.1 | — | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 5,000 | $4.99 | 99.8¢ (worst) | 1,002 | 0.8% dearer | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 11,000 | $9.99 | 90.8¢ | 1,101.1 | 8.3% cheaper | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 24,000 | $19.99 | 83.3¢ | 1,200.6 | 15.9% cheaper | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 67,500 | $49.99 | 74.1¢ | 1,350.3 | 25.2% cheaper | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 150,000 | $99.99 | 66.7¢ (best pack) | 1,500.2 | 32.7% cheaper | Repeatable | PS Store |
| 7,500 | $2.99 | 39.9¢ | 2,508.4 | 59.7% cheaper | Once per account | PS Store |
Xbox prices from Microsoft’s catalogue (market=US): the six packs and the 7,500 Special Offer, the same to the cent.
Stubs to USD: what common amounts cost
The cheapest mix of packs for each amount, a shorter basket where the cheapest one is a stack of 1,000s, the effective price per 1,000, and the price with the one-time offer.
| Stubs | Cheapest | Fewer checkouts | Per 1,000 | With the one-time offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 1 × 1,000, $0.99 | Same | 99¢ | No saving |
| 5,000 | 5 × 1,000, $4.95 | 1 × 5,000, $4.99 | 99¢ | $2.99 (the 7,500 offer) |
| 10,000 | 10 × 1,000, $9.90 | 1 × 11,000, $9.99 | 99¢ | $5.96 (3 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 15,000 | 1 × 11,000 + 4 × 1,000, $13.95 | Same | 93¢ | $10.91 (8 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 20,000 | 1 × 11,000 + 9 × 1,000, $18.90 | 1 × 24,000, $19.99 | 94.5¢ | $14.96 (1 × 11,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 25,000 | 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 1,000, $20.98 | Same | 83.9¢ | $19.91 (1 × 11,000 + 7 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 50,000 | 2 × 24,000 + 2 × 1,000, $41.96 | Same | 83.9¢ | $40.89 (1 × 24,000 + 1 × 11,000 + 8 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 75,000 | 1 × 67,500 + 8 × 1,000 (+500 spare), $57.91 | 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 5,000 + 3 × 1,000, $57.95 | 77.2¢ | $52.98 (1 × 67,500 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 100,000 | 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 9 × 1,000 (+500 spare), $78.89 | 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 5,000 + 4 × 1,000, $78.93 | 78.9¢ | $73.96 (1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 150,000 | 1 × 150,000, $99.99 | Same | 66.7¢ | No saving |
| 200,000 | 1 × 150,000 + 2 × 24,000 + 2 × 1,000, $141.95 | Same | 71¢ | $140.88 (1 × 150,000 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 11,000 + 8 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| 300,000 | 2 × 150,000, $199.98 | Same | 66.7¢ | No saving |
USD to Stubs: what a budget buys
The most Stubs each budget buys without going over.
| Budget | Packs | Stubs | Left over | With the one-time offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1.00 | 1 × 1,000 | 1,000 | $0.01 | Same |
| $3.00 | 3 × 1,000 | 3,000 | $0.03 | 7,500 (the 7,500 offer) |
| $5.00 | 1 × 5,000 | 5,000 | $0.01 | 9,500 (2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| $10.00 | 1 × 11,000 | 11,000 | $0.01 | 14,500 (1 × 5,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| $20.00 | 1 × 24,000 | 24,000 | $0.01 | 25,500 (1 × 11,000 + 1 × 5,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| $25.00 | 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 5,000 | 29,000 | $0.02 | 33,500 (1 × 24,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| $50.00 | 1 × 67,500 | 67,500 | $0.01 | Same |
| $75.00 | 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 5,000 | 96,500 | $0.03 | 101,000 (1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer) |
| $100.00 | 1 × 150,000 | 150,000 | $0.01 | Same |
| $150.00 | 1 × 150,000 + 1 × 67,500 | 217,500 | $0.02 | Same |
| $200.00 | 2 × 150,000 | 300,000 | $0.02 | Same |
Worked examples: the 5,000-pack trap, a card top-up, the one-time offer and the Deluxe Edition
20,000 Stubs
Cheapest: 1 × 11,000 + 9 × 1,000 for $18.90 (20,000 Stubs, 10 purchases). One 24,000 pack is $19.99: $1.09 more, but 4,000 extra Stubs in a single checkout — the calculator shows both.
A 25,000-Stub card with 3,000 in hand
Sell a duplicate for 5,000 first and, after the 10% fee, 4,500 land in your balance (our assumption about how the fee is applied). That leaves 17,500 Stubs to buy: 1 × 11,000 + 7 × 1,000 for $16.92 (18,000 Stubs, 8 purchases). With the one-time offer still open it drops to $12.89.
100,000 Stubs, with and without the special offer
Packs only: 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 9 × 1,000 for $78.89 (100,500 Stubs, 11 purchases), or 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 5,000 + 4 × 1,000 for $78.93 (100,500 Stubs, 7 purchases). Adding the 7,500 offer: 1 × 67,500 + 1 × 24,000 + 1 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer for $73.96 (100,000 Stubs, 4 purchases) — $4.93 less.
200,000 Stubs
Above 150,000 the best pack does the heavy lifting: 1 × 150,000 + 2 × 24,000 + 2 × 1,000 for $141.95 (200,000 Stubs, 5 purchases), 71¢ per 1,000. Two 150,000 packs would be $199.98.
A $20 budget
$20 buys 24,000 Stubs (1 × 24,000). If the special offer is still on your account, 1 × 11,000 + 1 × 5,000 + 2 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer gives 25,500 Stubs for $19.95 — 6.3% more.
Standard or Digital Deluxe?
The Deluxe costs $10.00 more on the US PlayStation Store and lists 20,000 Stubs. Bought in packs, that is 1 × 11,000 + 9 × 1,000 for $18.90 (20,000 Stubs, 10 purchases). If you were going to buy Stubs anyway, the upgrade is the cheaper route.
What is a 50,000-Stub balance worth?
It cost between $33.33 (at the 150,000-pack rate) and $49.90 (at the 5,000-pack rate) to buy. That is a purchase cost, not a cash value: Stubs cannot be cashed out and do not move to next year’s game. (50,000 is our example.)
Scouting report: what changes what Stubs cost you
- The 5,000 pack (99.8¢ per 1,000) is worse than the 1,000 pack (99¢), so a strict cheapest basket below 11,000 Stubs is a stack of 1,000s. The calculator shows that basket, and beside it a tidier one found by charging 25¢ per checkout in the search — an assumption we label, not a fee anyone charges.
- The 7,500-Stub special offer ($2.99, 39.9¢ per 1,000) is the cheapest Stubs on sale — 40.2% below the best pack. The PlayStation Store calls it a one-time offer and Microsoft files it as Durable, so each account gets it once. Tick the box only if you have not bought it.
- Bigger packs get steadily cheaper above 5,000: 11,000 at 90.8¢, 24,000 at 83.3¢, 67,500 at 74.1¢, 150,000 at 66.7¢ per 1,000.
- Purchased Stubs are locked to the console you bought them on. MLB The Show Support’s example: Stubs bought on a PlayStation 5 are not available on an Xbox Series X, even with cross-progression linked. Earned Stubs follow your linked account.
- Nothing carries over to next year’s game. Support says Diamond Dynasty progress stays in MLB The Show 26, so Stubs bought late in the season have a short shelf life.
- Selling on the Community Marketplace costs a 10% transaction fee, and each rarity has a minimum price (25 Stubs for Bronze). When an attribute update moves a card outside its tier’s limits, Support says open buy and sell orders are cancelled and refunded.
- Only buy Stubs in the PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo stores. MLB The Show Support says Stubs bought from other websites or sellers are prohibited and can get the account suspended.
- Gift cards add store credit, not Stubs: on Xbox an Xbox gift card tops up the Microsoft account balance, and you then buy the Stubs pack with it.
How the Stubs calculator works
- Sourced figures
- The 6 pack sizes and US prices come from the US PlayStation Store listings, checked to the cent against Microsoft’s US catalogue. The 7,500 one-time offer, the edition prices and the Deluxe’s 20,000 Stubs come from the same stores. The console lock, the year-to-year rule, the 10% Marketplace fee and the 25-Stub Bronze minimum come from MLB The Show Support.
- Stubs → USD: the cheapest basket
- Packs come in fixed sizes, so “what does this cost” means “which packs reach at least this many Stubs for the least money”. The calculator runs an exact search over every combination of packs (an unbounded knapsack, not “biggest pack first”), in steps of 500 Stubs. On a tie it picks fewer purchases.
- USD → Stubs: the most for a budget
- For a budget it finds the combination that gives the most Stubs without going over, and shows what is left and the biggest single pack you could buy instead.
- Card top-up
- For a Marketplace card it subtracts your balance and, if you plan to sell a duplicate first, what that sale leaves after the fee, then prices the Stubs still missing.
- What we assume
- Prices are US prices before sales tax, with no sale running; we did not reach a checkout. The “fewer checkouts” basket charges 25¢ per extra purchase inside the search only — a tidiness rule we chose, not a fee. Support names a 10% Marketplace fee but not how it is applied; we assume it is taken out of the sale price and rounded down. The one-time offer is counted only when you tick that it is still open. Example amounts, budgets and card prices are numbers we picked to show the maths.
What we checked on 18 October 2026, and what we could not
We read every price in this tool on 18 October 2026. A search for “stubs mlb the show 26” on the US PlayStation Store returned the Stubs listings for four yearly editions; the MLB The Show 26 ones sit under product code PPSA30630, and we opened each of its seven Stubs listings. Their titles read “Stubs™ (24,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26” and so on, and the data behind each page carries the base price in USD — none was on sale.
We work from Poland, so to rule out local pricing we asked Microsoft’s store catalogue for the same packs with the market set to US. All six repeatable packs came back as Consumable products at the same prices to the cent, and the 7,500-Stub “Special Offer” as a Durable product — Microsoft’s label for something you buy once — at $2.99. The PlayStation listing calls it a “Special one-time purchase offer”.
What surprised us: the 5,000 pack costs more per Stub than the 1,000 pack (99.8¢ against 99¢ per 1,000), so it never wins on price. And the Digital Deluxe Edition, at $10.00 over the Standard, lists 20,000 Stubs that would cost $18.90 on their own.
What we could not check: Stubs prices in the Nintendo eShop, any country other than the US (MLB The Show Support says Stubs are not sold in Australia at all), and Marketplace card prices, which players set and which change by the minute. We did not buy anything.
MLB The Show Stubs questions, answered
How much is 1,000 Stubs in MLB The Show 26?
$0.99 in the US for one 1,000 pack — the smallest Stubs pack on PlayStation and Xbox. Valued at the best pack rate (the 150,000 pack), 1,000 Stubs cost $0.67; the one-time 7,500 offer works out to 39.9¢ per 1,000.
How much are MLB The Show 26 Stubs packs?
In the US, before sales tax: 1,000 Stubs for $0.99, 5,000 Stubs for $4.99, 11,000 Stubs for $9.99, 24,000 Stubs for $19.99, 67,500 Stubs for $49.99, 150,000 Stubs for $99.99. Both the US PlayStation Store and Microsoft’s US catalogue listed all 6 at these prices on 18 October 2026, plus a 7,500-Stub special offer for $2.99 that each account can buy once.
How much is 10,000 Stubs?
$9.90 as 10 × 1,000, or $9.99 for one 11,000 pack, which gives 1,000 more Stubs in one checkout. If you have not bought the special offer yet, 3 × 1,000 + the 7,500 offer gets you 10,500 Stubs for $5.96.
What is the best value Stubs pack?
The 150,000 pack at $99.99: 66.7¢ per 1,000 Stubs, or 1,500.2 Stubs per dollar. The worst is the 5,000 pack at 99.8¢ — 49.7% more per Stub, and even a little worse than the 1,000 pack (99¢). The one-time 7,500 offer beats every pack at 39.9¢ per 1,000.
Should I buy the 5,000 Stubs pack?
No — 5,000 Stubs cost $4.95 as 5 × 1,000 against $4.99 for the 5,000 pack, and the 7,500 offer gives more Stubs for $2.99 if you still have it. The pack only saves checkouts.
How many Stubs do you get for $10, $20, $50 or $100?
$10 buys 11,000 Stubs (1 × 11,000); $20 buys 24,000 Stubs (1 × 24,000); $50 buys 67,500 Stubs (1 × 67,500); $100 buys 150,000 Stubs (1 × 150,000). The same on PlayStation and Xbox; the one-time offer adds more on small budgets.
Is the Digital Deluxe Edition worth it for the Stubs?
On the US PlayStation Store the Digital Deluxe Edition was $59.99 and the Standard Edition $49.99. The Deluxe lists 20,000 Stubs among its extras; buying that many Stubs in packs costs $18.90 (1 × 11,000 + 9 × 1,000), so the $10.00 difference is covered by the Stubs alone — the card packs and bat skin come on top.
Are MLB The Show Stubs shared between PlayStation, Xbox and Switch?
Purchased Stubs are not. MLB The Show Support says Stubs bought in The Show Shop are locked to that console — Stubs bought on a PlayStation 5 cannot be used on an Xbox Series X — even with cross-progression linked. Stubs you earn by playing can be used on any linked console, and only one console’s progress can be carried into cross-progression.
Do Stubs carry over to MLB The Show 27?
No. MLB The Show Support says progress in Diamond Dynasty, Franchise, Road to the Show and March to October does not carry over to a new yearly edition, and cloud saves only work within the same edition. Stubs belong to Diamond Dynasty, so treat a purchase as MLB The Show 26 only.
How much does the Marketplace take when I sell a card?
MLB The Show Support lists a 10% transaction fee on Marketplace sales. The calculator assumes it comes out of the sale and rounds down, so a card sold for 5,000 Stubs leaves 4,500. Bronze cards have a 25-Stub minimum buy/sell price.
Sources
Every figure the calculator uses was checked against these pages on .
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (1,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (5,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (11,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (24,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (67,500) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (150,000) for MLB® The Show™ 26
- PlayStation Store (US)Stubs™ (7,500) for MLB® The Show™ 26 — “Special one-time purchase offer”
- PlayStation Store (US)MLB® The Show™ 26 Digital Deluxe Edition (includes 20K Stubs™)
- PlayStation Store (US)MLB® The Show™ 26 (Standard Edition)
- Microsoft Store catalogue (US)The six Stubs packs for MLB The Show 26 on Xbox, US prices (market=US)
- Microsoft Store catalogue (US)7,500 Stubs™ Special Offer for MLB® The Show™ 26 (Durable), US price
- MLB The Show SupportHow do I link my PlayStation or Xbox to an MLB The Show account?
- MLB The Show SupportHow can I purchase Stubs? (purchased Stubs locked, earned Stubs usable on any console)
- MLB The Show SupportDoes Progress Transfer From Year-To-Year?
- MLB The Show SupportWhat should I do with duplicate players? (Marketplace +10% transaction fee)
- MLB The Show SupportMarketplace Buy + Sell Order Update (Bronze minimum 25 Stubs)
- MLB The Show SupportIs it okay for me to buy stubs from 3rd party website or seller?
Update history
Published 18 October 2026: figures checked against the 7 MLB The Show 26 Stubs listings and two edition listings on the US PlayStation Store, Microsoft’s catalogue (market=US) for the six Xbox packs and the one-time offer, and 6 MLB The Show Support articles.
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Who maintains this tool
Noor Haddad
Data & Market Research Lead, Virtwave · Built and maintains this calculator
Noor runs market research for Virtwave, tracking gift card volumes, redemption patterns and fraud trends across the 80+ countries we deliver to. She compiles our data reports from primary government sources (FTC, central banks) and the major market-research houses, and cross-checks every figure against our own transaction data before publication.
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Lead Editorial, Virtwave · Checks every figure before an update
Layla leads the Virtwave content desk. She oversees every blog post before publication, with a focus on long-form gift card guides, payment wallets, and SEO best practice for the gift card industry.
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