14K Gold Price per Gram Today

14K gold is worth about $77.23 per gram today, based on the live spot price of gold. That's the melt value: 58.5% of the $132.01 per-gram price of pure gold. Per pennyweight, the unit many US buyers quote in, 14K comes to about $120.10.

A buyer will pay you less than that figure, because they need a margin to test and refine the metal. Use the melt value as your yardstick and judge every offer against it.

How is the 14K price per gram calculated?

14K means 14 parts gold out of 24, which works out to 58.5% gold. The rest is other metals such as silver, copper, zinc or nickel that give the piece its strength and color. That's why 14K pieces are often stamped 585.

The formula is short:

14K value per gram = pure gold price per gram × 0.585

Gold's spot price is quoted per troy ounce, and one troy ounce is 31.1035 grams. So the per-gram price of pure gold is the ounce price divided by 31.1035. Our widget below shows today's gold price broken down by gram, ounce and other units.

Example with round numbers

Say gold is $3,110 a troy ounce. Divide by 31.1035 and pure gold is about $100 a gram. Multiply by 0.585 and 14K is about $58.50 a gram. At the same price, a pennyweight (1.5552 g) of 14K holds about $91 of gold. Plug in the live spot price and the same steps give you the live figures at the top of this page.

14K per gram, per pennyweight and per ounce

Buyers quote in different units, which makes offers hard to compare. Here's how they relate:

If one shop quotes per gram and another per dwt, convert one to the other. A per-dwt price divided by 1.5552 gives you the per-gram price. For more on why buyers use pennyweight, see our pennyweight explainer.

What's your 14K piece worth? Five common scenarios

The examples below use illustrative round numbers (pure gold at $100 a gram, so 14K at $58.50) to show the maths. Use the calculator further down for today's figures.

If you have a 14K chain

Weigh it on a kitchen scale set to grams. Say it reads 10 grams. 10 × $58.50 = $585 of gold. Check the clasp: many chains have a 14K stamp right on it. A steel spring inside the clasp weighs very little, but a buyer may deduct for it. Our guide to valuing a gold chain walks through the details.

If you have a 14K wedding band or ring

Rings are dense and simple to value if there's no stone. A plain band weighing 4 grams holds 4 × $58.50 = $234 of gold at our example price. With a stone, subtract its weight or ask the buyer to remove it first.

If you have a bag of single earrings and broken bits

These add up. Weigh them together only if they're all stamped 14K. Twenty small pieces might total 6 grams, or about $351 of gold in our example. Earring backs are sometimes a different karat or not gold at all, so check them separately.

If you have mixed 10K, 14K and 18K

Keep them apart. A buyer who prices a mixed bag as all 10K is paying 41.7% on gold that's really 58.5% or 75%. Sort first, weigh each karat, then add the totals. Our karat to percent chart covers every karat.

If your piece is stamped 14K GF or 14K GP

That's not solid 14K. GF means gold-filled and GP means gold-plated: a layer of gold over base metal. Per gram, these hold a small fraction of the gold in solid 14K, and most buyers won't pay much for them.

How 14K compares with 10K and 18K

14K sits in the middle of the karats you'll usually find in an American jewelry box. It holds noticeably more gold than 10K and noticeably less than 18K, and the per-gram value tracks that exactly.

Put another way, a gram of 14K holds about 40% more gold than a gram of 10K (58.5 against 41.7), and a gram of 18K holds about 28% more than a gram of 14K. That's why sorting by karat matters so much when you sell. See our pages on 10K gold per gram and 18K gold per gram for the neighbors.

How much does 14K move when gold moves?

Because 14K is 58.5% gold, every change in the spot price passes through at 58.5%. Here's a simple example. Say gold rises by $100 a troy ounce. Per gram of pure gold, that's $100 ÷ 31.1035, or about $3.22. Per gram of 14K, it's 58.5% of that, about $1.88.

On a 10-gram chain, that's under $19 of extra melt value. On 100 grams of mixed 14K from an estate, it's closer to $188. Small daily moves rarely change the picture for a single ring, but they add up on a larger lot.

Calculate your 14K gold value

Enter the weight and choose 14K in the calculator below. It uses the live gold price, so the answer is today's melt value for your piece.

You can also use the stand-alone scrap gold calculator page to total several lots of different karats.

Why a buyer's 14K price is lower than melt

The figure on this page is what the gold is worth at spot. A buyer can't sell your bracelet at spot the same afternoon. They pay to have the metal tested and refined, carry the risk that prices fall, and keep a margin.

So turn each offer into a percentage. Say your 14K lot has a melt value of $500 at today's price:

• An offer of $400 is 80% of melt.
• An offer of $300 is 60% of melt.
• An offer of $200 is 40% of melt.

Those are examples, not market rates. The point is that a percentage lets you compare a pawn shop, a jeweler and a coin dealer on equal terms. For the full selling process, read how to sell scrap gold step by step.

Common mistakes that cost 14K sellers money

• Using ordinary ounces. Gold is priced per troy ounce (31.1035 g), not the 28.3495 g ounce on a kitchen scale.
• Weighing in the wrong mode. Many scales switch between grams, ounces and dwt. Check the display before you write anything down.
• Counting stones as gold. A ring with a big stone weighs more than its gold content.
• Treating 585 as something else. A 585 stamp is 14K, the same gold content written as parts per thousand.
• Accepting the first offer. Prices vary between buyers. A second quote takes an hour.

Quick recap before you sell

1. Confirm the 14K or 585 stamp, and set aside anything marked GF or GP.
2. Weigh in grams, subtracting stones.
3. Multiply grams by today's 14K price of $77.23 to get melt value.
4. Get written offers and convert each into a % of melt.
5. Check the live gold price on the day you sell, since your melt value moves with it.