A New World terrestrial tarantula. Large and docile, and generally recommended for beginner keepers. Market price is $35, with 47 live listings across 28 sellers and a lowest ask of $9.
Dense curled setae with a bronze cast, terrestrial, slow, calm, affordable, and about as tolerant of a new keeper's mistakes as a tarantula gets. The default first tarantula recommendation and a defensible one.
Formerly Brachypelma albopilosum, and a large share of listings still use that name, which is worth searching under. The genus moved in 2020 and carried CITES Appendix II status with it.
| Seller | Form | Size | Sex | Source | Ask | Shipping | Landed | Deal | Rarity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exotics Unlimited USA | — | 0.5" | U | CB° | $9.00 -53% | $39 | $48 | 💎💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Big Z's | — | 0.75-1.0" | U | CB° | $9.99 -62% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Spider Shoppe | — | 0.25" | U | CB | $10.00 -47% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Great Basin Serpentarium | Nicaragua | 0.75-1.0" | U | CB° | $10.00 -62% | $65 | $75 | 💎💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Pacific Northwest Arachnids | — | 0.5" | U | CB | $15.00 -21% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Fear Not Tarantulas | — | 1/2" | U | CB° | $15.00 -21% | $29 | $44 | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Hardcore Arachnids | — | 1/4" | U | CB° | $15.00 -21% | $50 | $65 | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Juice's Arthropods | — | 1/2 Inch Sling | U | CB° | $19.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Great Basin Serpentarium | Honduras | ? | ? | CB° | $19.00 | $65 | $84 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Grimoire Exotics | — | ? | ? | ? | $19.99 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Exotics Unlimited USA | — | 0.33-0.5" | U | CB° | $20.00 | $39 | $59 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Spider Room | — | 1/4" | U | CB° | $20.00 | $60 | $80 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| One Love Tarantulas | — | 1/4" | U | CB° | $20.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Defiant Forest | — | 1.0" | U | CB° | $20.00 -23% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Wonderland Exotics | — | 1.0" | U | CB° | $25.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| ArachnoEden | — | 0.625-1.0" | U | CB° | $25.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Shane's Spiders | — | Sling | U | CB° | $25.00 +32% | $50 | $75 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Spider Shoppe | — | 2.0-2.5" | ♂ | WC | $28.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Spider Shoppe | — | 4.0" | ♂ | WC | $28.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Mother of Spiders | — | 1.0" | U | CB° | $30.00 +15% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| V Exotic | — | Sling | U | CB° | $30.00 +58% | $50 | $80 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Swift's Invertebrates | — | 1" | U | CB° | $30.00 +15% | $49 | $79 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Pacific Northwest Arachnids | — | 2.5" | U | CB | $30.00 -37% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Swift's Invertebrates | — | 1" | U | CB° | $30.00 +15% | $49 | $79 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Plumb's Exotics | — | 2-3" Unsexed | U | ? | $35.00 -26% | $60 | $95 | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Creepinn Family | Honduras | 1.0" | U | CB° | $35.00 +35% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Deadpan Exotics | — | 2.0" | U | ? | $35.00 -26% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Defiant Forest | — | 2.0" | U | ? | $36.00 -24% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| TyDye Exotics | — | 4.0" | ? | WC | $37.99 -16% | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Spider Room | — | 1.5" | U | CB° | $40.00 +54% | $60 | $100 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Eight Deadly Sins | — | 1.5-2.0" | U | CB° | $40.00 -16% | $50 | $90 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Pacific Northwest Arachnids | — | 4.0" | ? | WC | $40.00 -11% | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Deadpan Exotics | — | 1.5-2.0" | U | CB° | $40.00 -16% | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Fear Not Tarantulas | Nicaragua | 1.25" | U | CB° | $42.00 +62% | $29 | $71 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Paladin Exotics | — | 3.0" | U | ? | $44.99 | $50 | $95 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Feared to Fascinated | Nicaragua | 3.0" | U | ? | $45.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Spider Room | — | ? | ♂ | CB° | $50.00 | $60 | $110 | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Fangs Unlimited | — | 2.0" | U | ? | $50.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| The Spider Room | — | 3"-4" | U | CB° | $50.00 +11% | $60 | $110 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| V Exotic | — | Juvenile | U | CB° | $55.00 +112% | $50 | $105 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Spider Shoppe | — | 4.0" | ♀ | WC | $58.00 -37% | ❓ | ❓ | 💎💎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| 8 Paws Tarantulas | — | 2.0-2.5" | ♀ | ? | $65.00 +11% | $50 | $115 | 🔥 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Deadpan Exotics | — | Sub-adult | U | ? | $65.00 +37% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Deadpan Exotics | — | Sub-adult | U | ? | $65.00 +37% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Underdark Inverts | Nicaragua | 2" | U | ? | $65.00 +37% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Westside Tarantulas | — | Juvenile | U | CB | $67.00 +158% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Paladin Exotics | — | 4.0" | ♀ | ? | $84.99 | $50 | $135 | 🔥 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| ArachnoEden | — | 2.0" | ♀ | ? | $120.00 +105% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Westside Tarantulas | — | Juvenile | ♀ | CB | $225.00 | ❓ | ❓ | 👍 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Urban Tarantulas | — | Female - 4in - big beautiful specimens - Friendly | ♀ | ? | $250.00 +170% | $50 | $300 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Westside Tarantulas | — | 4.0" | ♀ | CB | $333.00 +260% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Urban Tarantulas | — | Female - 5in + beautiful display specimens - friendly | ♀ | ? | $350.00 +312% | $50 | $400 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Westside Tarantulas | — | Sub-adult | ♀ | CB | $415.00 +609% | ❓ | ❓ | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
| Urban Tarantulas | — | Female - 6in + DISPLAY SPECIMENS - amazing - friendly | ♀ | ? | $425.00 +400% | $50 | $475 | 👎 | 1/10 | Buy → |
Market price is a trimmed median of recent asks for a species — the highest and lowest are dropped before the middle is taken, so one unusual listing cannot move it. Below four asks there is nothing safe to trim, so it is a plain median.
A deal grade compares like with like. A listing is scored against others of the same species, same sex group and same size bucket — never against the species as a whole. A 1" unsexed sling and a 5" confirmed female are different markets, and blending them is how a fair price starts looking like a bargain.
Graded against history, not against today's shelf. The comparison is every ask ever recorded for that group, counted once per listing rather than once per day it sat unsold. Grading against whatever happens to be in stock right now would let a single low-priced arrival drag the median down and re-grade every other seller — a race to the bottom, which is not something a price tracker should cause. Where there is not yet enough history, the live listings are used and the page says so.
The badges:
Those thresholds are deliberately wide. The same animal at the same size routinely spans about 2× between the lowest and highest seller, so "20% below average" describes an ordinary listing rather than a find.
What these numbers are not. FangTrack sees asks, never sales — nothing here is a record of what anything sold for. A small number of sellers who specialise in premium display specimens are excluded from the calculated figures because their asks are not representative; their listings still appear. Private collection uploads never affect any public number. Shipping estimates are the vendor's stated flat rate added to the ask, not a checkout total.
A grade is information, not advice. Condition, provenance and how well a seller packs a live animal are worth more than a few dollars, and none of them are in the price. More on how this is calculated →