Steam Regional Pricing Calculator

Steamworks offers three optional conversion methods that turn one US dollar price into every currency Steam supports: exchange rate only, purchasing power only, and a multi-variable method that, in Valve's words, considers "local purchasing power, the expected cost of comparable entertainment goods, and exchange rate". Valve publishes the resulting table in its public pricing explorer.

This page uses the explorer's default table — judging by its numbers, the multi-variable one — effective Oct 8, 2026. Valve does not disclose the inputs, and its own documentation says the suggestions are optional: many developers set every currency themselves.

Since 20 November 2023 Steam charges customers in Argentina and Turkey in US dollars instead of pesos and lira. Valve's stated reason: exchange-rate volatility made it hard for developers to choose prices and keep them current, and kept breaking local payment methods. Argentina now sits in the LATAM USD pricing group and Turkey in MENA USD, each with a reduced dollar price.

A region group has one price for every country in it. Among the Big Mac economies, LATAM USD also covers Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela; MENA USD also covers Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Oman. So the table shows a per-country Big Mac view, but you can only set one number per group — which is why these countries are left out of the "biggest gaps" list.

We could not find a published update schedule from Valve. Each version of the explorer table carries an effective date; the one on this page starts Oct 8, 2026 and was fetched on Oct 15, 2026. We re-check it and print the date at the top of this page, so you always know how old the comparison is.

The Big Mac side is The Economist's survey, published twice a year. This page uses the July 2026 edition.

It is a cross-check, not an oracle. Its strength is that it is a real, identical product priced by local managers in local money, so it captures local costs without anyone's model in between. Its limits: it covers 54 economies, not every Steam market; a burger reflects local wages and rent more than what people spend on games; and some years are distorted — Argentina's recorded price barely moved from 2011 to 2014 while the peso lost half its value.

Use it to spot where Valve's suggestion is far from local purchasing power, then decide. The full reasoning is in the methodology.

Our rule of thumb, not Valve's: below about 20% either way, leave Valve's price alone — the Big Mac comparison is not precise enough to justify fiddling. This page highlights a country only when Valve's price is at least 1.2× the Big Mac price, or at most 1/1.2 of it.

Steam's own rules matter more than the exact threshold. Valve asks that prices stay unchanged for 30 days after release; proposed changes are reviewed, usually within one or two business days; and raising a price in any currency blocks discounts for 30 days. So batch your changes, and make increases well before a sale you want to join.