Community price on backpack.tf: 93.0 keys, last changed 2025-11-18 (10mo ago). The live quote above, 90.3 keys, is 3% lower and last moved 1h ago. They are different measures: the quote is what traders and bots are asking and bidding on the classifieds right now, and it moves for thousands of items every day; the community price is a suggestion accepted by vote, which changes only when someone argues it should. A quote well away from the vote is usually a price that is about to be re-argued. Community prices from backpack.tf, read under an hour ago.
Steam Market asking price: $229.99 — the lowest of one listing for the Purple Energy effect when we looked on 2026-09-01 01:46 UTC (5d ago). This is what a seller is asking, not what anything sold for. Steam pays out in Steam wallet funds, not cash, and Valve takes roughly 15% at the till — so asking prices there run well above the 90 keys, 18.77 ref shown above, which comes from the keys-and-metal market on backpack.tf. The two are different markets and are never blended. Steam lists the item as “Unusual Modest Pile of Hat”, with no effect in the name — the effect comes from the individual listing.
Price history
62 observations
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Purple Energy Modest Pile of Hat sell price, 2025-09-25 to 2026-09-05: 62 observations, from 113 keys to 90.3 keys. Sampled evenly across the range.
Observed (UTC)
Sell
Buy
25 SEP 2025 · 03:29 UTC
113 keys
62.2 keys
9 OCT 2025 · 08:02 UTC
107 keys
65.3 keys
19 OCT 2025 · 19:48 UTC
101 keys
62.1 keys
10 NOV 2025 · 00:06 UTC
103 keys
63.0 keys
28 NOV 2025 · 06:44 UTC
120 keys
11.0 keys
9 DEC 2025 · 16:44 UTC
107 keys
11.2 keys
17 DEC 2025 · 06:40 UTC
109 keys
75.8 keys
3 JAN 2026 · 16:45 UTC
105 keys
74.4 keys
22 JAN 2026 · 01:43 UTC
95.7 keys
69.5 keys
29 JAN 2026 · 01:43 UTC
87.7 keys
66.3 keys
16 FEB 2026 · 22:39 UTC
91.0 keys
71.6 keys
26 FEB 2026 · 08:40 UTC
82.0 keys
68.0 keys
8 MAR 2026 · 22:41 UTC
83.7 keys
71.8 keys
30 MAR 2026 · 20:29 UTC
84.7 keys
74.7 keys
13 MAY 2026 · 18:31 UTC
84.4 keys
69.4 keys
17 MAY 2026 · 22:30 UTC
82.8 keys
69.0 keys
29 JUN 2026 · 03:14 UTC
77.6 keys
67.5 keys
12 JUL 2026 · 22:44 UTC
73.7 keys
64.1 keys
19 JUL 2026 · 22:44 UTC
76.8 keys
66.8 keys
3 AUG 2026 · 00:24 UTC
82.6 keys
71.7 keys
11 AUG 2026 · 11:11 UTC
83.2 keys
72.3 keys
21 AUG 2026 · 12:08 UTC
83.8 keys
72.9 keys
22 AUG 2026 · 00:08 UTC
84.0 keys
73.0 keys
23 AUG 2026 · 00:08 UTC
84.1 keys
73.1 keys
24 AUG 2026 · 04:09 UTC
84.0 keys
73.0 keys
25 AUG 2026 · 12:08 UTC
84.1 keys
73.2 keys
26 AUG 2026 · 12:08 UTC
84.3 keys
73.3 keys
27 AUG 2026 · 00:09 UTC
84.3 keys
73.3 keys
28 AUG 2026 · 00:09 UTC
84.7 keys
73.6 keys
28 AUG 2026 · 12:07 UTC
85.3 keys
74.2 keys
29 AUG 2026 · 12:09 UTC
85.6 keys
74.4 keys
30 AUG 2026 · 00:09 UTC
86.1 keys
74.8 keys
31 AUG 2026 · 02:09 UTC
85.5 keys
74.4 keys
1 SEP 2026 · 04:08 UTC
85.3 keys
74.2 keys
1 SEP 2026 · 16:08 UTC
85.6 keys
74.4 keys
2 SEP 2026 · 16:08 UTC
84.8 keys
73.8 keys
3 SEP 2026 · 04:08 UTC
85.1 keys
74.0 keys
4 SEP 2026 · 04:08 UTC
89.2 keys
77.5 keys
4 SEP 2026 · 16:08 UTC
88.9 keys
77.3 keys
5 SEP 2026 · 16:08 UTC
90.3 keys
78.5 keys
Price history in numbers
62 readings since 25 Sep 2025
Over the last 30 days the Purple Energy Modest Pile of Hat's sell price ranged from 83.2 keys to 92.0 keys and is up 8.6% after 30 moves. Over a year it ranged from 73.4 keys to 120 keys (down 19.8%). Today's 90.3 keys sits in the middle of its range: the lowest we have recorded is 73.4 keys (5 Jul 2026) and the highest 120 keys (28 Nov 2025). The price has moved 61 times since we began recording it — about once every 6 days.
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