One Piece bounties: the complete ranking of every bounty, from Roger to Chopper (updated 2026)
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In One Piece, a bounty sums up a pirate in a single number: what the Marines are willing to pay for their head, and therefore what they think of them. From Luffy's first poster at 30,000,000 berries to Gol D. Roger's 5,564,800,000, these amounts tell the story of the series better than any summary, and they change with every arc. This guide gathers every known bounty, ranked: the twenty biggest, the Straw Hat crew bounty by bounty, the Emperors, the former Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Worst Generation, the Elbaf reveals, the reverse bounties the Cross Guild puts on Marines, the strangest cases, and how to read a wanted poster. The amounts come from the manga and the series' reference material; the ranking is up to date as of 22 September 2026, and the latest bounty revealed so far is that of Prince Loki of Elbaf, in chapter 1131.
At a glance
- The biggest bounty in history belongs to Gol D. Roger: 5,564,800,000 berries, ahead of Whitebeard (5,046,000,000). Both are inactive, as their holders are dead.
- The biggest active bounty belongs to Shanks: 4,048,900,000, followed by Blackbeard (3,996,000,000) and Dracule Mihawk (3,590,000,000).
- Luffy has been worth 3,000,000,000 berries since Kaido's fall, level with Trafalgar Law and Eustass Kid. His crew totals 8,816,001,000 berries, including 1,000 for Chopper.
- The most recent bounties come from Elbaf: 2,600,000,000 for Prince Loki, 1,800,000,000 for each of the giants Dorry and Brogy.
- Since the Seven Warlords of the Sea were disbanded, their frozen bounties have been reactivated and sometimes multiplied by twenty: Boa Hancock went from 80,000,000 to 1,659,000,000.
- The Cross Guild of Buggy, Mihawk and Crocodile has turned the system upside down: it puts bounties on Marines, up to five billion for Akainu.
Contents
- How bounties work in One Piece
- The ranking of the 20 biggest bounties in One Piece
- The Straw Hat crew's bounties (Mugiwara)
- All of Luffy's bounties in order, from 30 million to 3 billion
- The Emperors' bounties, past and present
- Roger, Whitebeard, Rocks: the legends' bounties
- The former Seven Warlords: frozen bounties, reawakened bounties
- The Worst Generation: from Sabaody to today
- Recently revealed bounties: Elbaf and the latest posters
- The Cross Guild's reverse bounties on Marines
- The strangest bounties: Chopper, Sanji, Buggy and the rest
- The unknown bounties: Dragon, Rayleigh, Rocks, Shiryu…
- How to read a wanted poster
- Frequently asked questions
- Further reading
How bounties work in One Piece
A bounty (kenshōkin) is a reward placed on an outlaw's head by the Marines, on behalf of the World Government, and circulated in the form of a wanted poster: the photo, the name, the amount, and the words Dead or Alive. The poster travels around the world with the newspapers delivered by the News Coos, and it is through it that the characters, like the readers, learn that a pirate has moved up a league. In the logic of the series, the amount does not measure strength alone: it measures the threat to world order. Nico Robin, an eight-year-old child who cannot fight, gets 79,000,000 berries because she can read the Poneglyphs; Sanji, the crew's cook, is wanted "only alive" for family reasons; and the most wanted criminal in the world, Monkey D. Dragon, has never had a public amount.

The series gives a few thresholds that help read a number. In the East Blue, the weakest sea, going over 10,000,000 already makes you a name: Arlong ruled there with 20,000,000. In the first half of the Grand Line, 100,000,000 is the bar for the "Supernovas", the rookies everyone keeps an eye on; it is the amount Blackbeard was after when he went for Luffy to get himself noticed by the Government. Jinbe explains that the Government hesitates for a long time before going over 300,000,000. And beyond a billion, we are talking about monsters, even in the New World: as of September 2026, only twenty-four characters have crossed that line.
Three rules complete the picture. A bounty is frozen when the pirate becomes a Warlord of the Sea, and reactivated if they leave the system: that is what happened to Crocodile, Hancock and Mihawk after the system was abolished in chapter 956. A bounty becomes inactive when the pirate dies or is imprisoned, but it stays on the books, which is why Roger and Whitebeard still top the ranking. Finally, since the end of the Wano arc, the world has had a second authority issuing wanted posters: the Cross Guild, which puts bounties on Marines. To place each of these characters in the story, our list of One Piece arcs in order gives the landmarks.
The ranking of the 20 biggest bounties in One Piece
The table gathers the bounties issued by the World Government, active or not, in descending order. The "status" column separates current bounties from inactive ones (holder dead or captured) or those whose status is uncertain (Kaido and Big Mom, missing since Wano).

| Rank | Character | Bounty (berries) | Affiliation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gol D. Roger | 5,564,800,000 | Roger Pirates | Inactive (deceased) |
| 2 | Edward Newgate, Whitebeard | 5,046,000,000 | Whitebeard Pirates | Inactive (deceased) |
| 3 | Kaido | 4,611,100,000 | Beasts Pirates | Status unknown |
| 4 | Charlotte Linlin, Big Mom | 4,388,000,000 | Big Mom Pirates | Status unknown |
| 5 | Shanks | 4,048,900,000 | Red Hair Pirates | Active |
| 6 | Marshall D. Teach, Blackbeard | 3,996,000,000 | Blackbeard Pirates | Active |
| 7 | Dracule Mihawk | 3,590,000,000 | Cross Guild | Active |
| 8 | Buggy | 3,189,000,000 | Cross Guild | Active |
| 9 | Monkey D. Luffy | 3,000,000,000 | Straw Hat Pirates | Active |
| 9 | Eustass Kid | 3,000,000,000 | Kid Pirates | Active |
| 9 | Trafalgar Law | 3,000,000,000 | Heart Pirates | Active |
| 12 | Loki | 2,600,000,000 | Elbaf | Active |
| 13 | Crocodile | 1,965,000,000 | Cross Guild | Active |
| 14 | Dorry | 1,800,000,000 | Giant Warrior Pirates | Active |
| 14 | Brogy | 1,800,000,000 | Giant Warrior Pirates | Active |
| 16 | Boa Hancock | 1,659,000,000 | Kuja Pirates | Active |
| 17 | King | 1,390,000,000 | Beasts Pirates | Active |
| 18 | Marco | 1,374,000,000 | Whitebeard Pirates | Active |
| 19 | Queen | 1,320,000,000 | Beasts Pirates | Active |
| 20 | Roronoa Zoro | 1,111,000,000 | Straw Hat Pirates | Active |
Just below this top 20 come Jinbe (1,100,000,000), Charlotte Katakuri (1,057,000,000), Sanji (1,032,000,000) and Jack (1,000,000,000), who close out the billion club. Two readings stand out. First, the dead still lead the way: Roger and Whitebeard, the two men who dominated the previous era, have never been overtaken, and Kaido and Big Mom disappeared without their bounties being withdrawn. Second, the active top has tightened: since chapter 1058, six living pirates are worth more than 3,000,000,000 berries, whereas before Wano there were only four, the Emperors themselves. This inflation is the subject of the whole ranking; it tells of the end of an era and the arrival of a new generation at the top, the one detailed in our ranking of the strongest One Piece characters, where the bounty is only one clue among others.
The Straw Hat crew's bounties (Mugiwara)
The ten members of Luffy's crew all have a bounty, from the captain to the doctor, and since chapter 1058 their total stands at 8,816,001,000 berries. The posters always drop together, at the end of the big arcs: after Enies Lobby (chapter 435), after Dressrosa (chapter 801), after Whole Cake Island (chapter 903), after Wano (chapter 1058, episode 1086 of the anime). Here is the current situation, with each member's first bounty and the number of posters received.

| Member | Current bounty | First bounty | Posters | Key point |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monkey D. Luffy | 3,000,000,000 | 30,000,000 | 7 | Emperor since Wano |
| Roronoa Zoro | 1,111,000,000 | 60,000,000 | 4 | First lieutenant above a billion |
| Jinbe | 1,100,000,000 | 76,000,000 | 4 | Former Warlord of the Sea |
| Sanji | 1,032,000,000 | 77,000,000 | 4 | Wanted Only Alive |
| Nico Robin | 930,000,000 | 79,000,000 | 4 | First bounty at age eight |
| Usopp | 500,000,000 | 30,000,000 | 3 | "God Usopp", formerly Sogeking |
| Franky | 394,000,000 | 44,000,000 | 3 | The shipwright |
| Brook | 383,000,000 | 33,000,000 | 3 | A bounty fifty years old to begin with |
| Nami | 366,000,000 | 16,000,000 | 3 | The crew's smallest first bounty |
| Tony Tony Chopper | 1,000 | 50 | 3 | Mistaken for the mascot |
The crew's pecking order has shifted over time. Until Wano, the order was Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, then Robin; Jinbe's arrival, bringing 438,000,000 berries from his Warlord past, put him between Zoro and Sanji, and chapter 1058 confirmed that ranking by raising him to 1,100,000,000. The rivalry between the swordsman and the cook, which fans follow poster after poster, goes Zoro's way every time: 60 against 77 million at the start (Sanji ahead, just this once), then 120 against 177, 320 against 330, and finally 1,111,000,000 against 1,032,000,000. The swordsman's poster, with his bandana and his dark stare, is in fact the crew's most reproduced after the captain's; we carry a large-format bandana canvas, and Sanji's with the cigarette to do the loser justice.
Robin's case is the most revealing of the system: her first bounty, 79,000,000, dates from the destruction of Ohara, when she was eight and had just been identified as the survivor able to read the Poneglyphs. The Marines were not after her for her strength but for what she knows; that is why her amount climbs to 930,000,000 after Wano, where she deciphered the Road Poneglyph. The poster of Robin as a child, at 80,000,000, remains one of the most unsettling objects in the series. Jinbe, for his part, arrives with a complete history: 76,000,000 as a member of the Sun Pirates, 250,000,000 when he refused to remain a Warlord during the war at Marineford, 438,000,000 in the series' reference material during his transition period, then past the billion once he became the crew's "Knight of the Sea". His canvas in a red kimono reproduces the current poster.
The last four members tell the series with humour. Usopp was first wanted under the Sogeking mask, at 30,000,000, before the Marines worked out who he was; his current poster names him "God Usopp", a nickname earned in Dressrosa for freeing the toys, and shows him posing, which his God Usopp canvas faithfully reproduces. Brook is the only member whose first bounty, 33,000,000, dates from half a century before the story: it belonged to the Rumbar Pirates' musician, never withdrawn because he was believed dead. His 383,000,000 poster is a hijacked concert poster, "Soul King" front and centre, which our Brook canvas reproduces. Nami has the crew's smallest first bounty, 16,000,000, and one of its steadiest climbs; her 16 million poster, smiling, is the fans' favourite. As for Chopper, we give him a place of his own among the strangest bounties.
All of Luffy's bounties in order, from 30 million to 3 billion
Luffy is the character who has received the most posters: seven, one for each major stage of his journey. Following them in order means rereading the series, arc after arc, through the eyes of the Marines. Each amount has a precise reason, and the way he finds out, often by chance and laughing, has become one of the series' rituals.

| Bounty | When | Manga | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30,000,000 | After Arlong Park (East Blue) | Chapter 96 | Victory over Arlong, an East Blue record from the very first poster |
| 100,000,000 | After Alabasta | Chapter 213 | Fall of Crocodile, a Warlord of the Sea |
| 300,000,000 | After Enies Lobby | Chapter 435 | Declaration of war on the Government, flag burned |
| 400,000,000 | After Marineford and Impel Down | Chapter 598 | Prison break, part in the Summit War |
| 500,000,000 | After Dressrosa | Chapter 801 | Fall of Doflamingo, birth of the Grand Fleet |
| 1,500,000,000 | After Whole Cake Island | Chapter 903 | Called the "fifth Emperor" by the press |
| 3,000,000,000 | After Wano | Chapter 1053 | Fall of Kaido, named Emperor |
Three posters deserve a word. The first, at 30,000,000, is already a record: no East Blue rookie had ever reached that figure, and it is the one discovered by viewers of the second season of the Netflix series, released on 10 March 2026, which follows the crew from Loguetown to Drum. The fourth, at 400,000,000, is the least known: it drops during the two-year timeskip, in response to the Impel Down breakout, the war at Marineford and the second bell rung at Marineford, and the reader only discovers it on the return, when a fake Luffy uses it to recruit at Sabaody. The sixth, at 1,500,000,000, is the one where the journalist Morgans invents the title of "fifth Emperor" after Whole Cake Island, which puts Luffy in a category he has not yet earned by strength, and triggers the Government's anger.
The seventh poster, at 3,000,000,000, drops in chapter 1053, at the same time as Kid's and Law's, after the defeat of Kaido and Big Mom at Onigashima. It is also the first to show Luffy in his Gear 5 form, white hair and a huge grin, a photo that went around the world in a single page. That is the image you will find on the Luffy Gear 5 wanted poster canvas. As a side note, the 3 billion poster is also the moment the Marines stop calling Luffy "Straw Hat" condescendingly: he has become one of the four Emperors, and the pages that follow treat him as such. The question that comes up most often, "what is Luffy's bounty after Egghead or after Elbaf?", has a simple answer: no new poster has dropped since Wano. Egghead was presented to the world as an incident, not a pirate victory, and the Elbaf arc is ongoing. If you are looking for the figure that matches each of these stages, our guide to choosing a Luffy figure sorts them by arc and by form.
The Emperors' bounties, past and present
The Four Emperors (Yonko) are the pirates who rule the New World, and their bounties remained a mystery until chapter 957, when Oda revealed in one go those of the four Emperors of the time and Roger's. Since Wano, two seats have changed hands, and the Emperors' table is the most discussed in the series.

| Emperor | Bounty | Revealed | Situation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanks | 4,048,900,000 | Chapter 957 | Reigning Emperor |
| Marshall D. Teach, Blackbeard | 3,996,000,000 | Chapter 1059 | Reigning Emperor, formerly 2,247,600,000 |
| Buggy | 3,189,000,000 | Chapter 1058 | Reigning Emperor, formerly 15,000,000 |
| Monkey D. Luffy | 3,000,000,000 | Chapter 1053 | Reigning Emperor |
| Kaido | 4,611,100,000 | Chapter 957 | Fallen at Wano |
| Charlotte Linlin, Big Mom | 4,388,000,000 | Chapter 957 | Fallen at Wano |
| Edward Newgate, Whitebeard | 5,046,000,000 | Chapter 957 | Died at Marineford |
Shanks holds the biggest active bounty in the world, 4,048,900,000 berries, and it is the only one of the four former Emperors' bounties that has never moved since it was revealed. An older poster, seen in the series' reference material, put him at 1,040,000,000 in his youth, when he had just founded his crew: the Marines have therefore quadrupled it in some fifteen years, without him fighting a single major public battle. Our Shanks as Emperor figure, coat over his shoulders, matches that period. Blackbeard took the opposite route: he had no bounty at all when he joined the Seven Warlords, which made him a complete anomaly; he received 2,247,600,000 after stealing Whitebeard's power, then 3,996,000,000 in chapter 1059, after his victory over Trafalgar Law. Four million short of the symbolic mark, this amount is the most debated in the series: many read it as the Government's wish not to place him above Shanks. The figure of Blackbeard in his darkness shows him as he appears on his current poster.
Kaido and Big Mom keep enormous bounties, 4,611,100,000 and 4,388,000,000, because the Government has never declared them dead: having fallen into the magma beneath Onigashima, they have simply vanished from the world. Their posters also tell of their youth: Kaido started at 70,000,000, Big Mom at 50,000,000 then 500,000,000, back when both served under Rocks D. Xebec. The canvases of Kaido the Emperor and of Charlotte Linlin reproduce the four-billion posters, the most impressive ever printed for living pirates. As for Buggy, the East Blue clown who went from 15,000,000 to 3,189,000,000 without winning a single fight, he gets his own explanation.
Roger, Whitebeard, Rocks: the legends' bounties
At the very top of the ranking, two dead men. Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King, was worth 5,564,800,000 berries at the time of his execution in Loguetown, twenty-four years before the story; it is the highest amount ever issued, revealed in chapter 957 at the same time as the Emperors'. The figure has been inactive since his death, which does not stop fans from using it as a unit of measurement: Luffy is at a little over half of it. Roger's ship, the Oro Jackson, built from Adam wood by Tom, is one of the items collectors want most; we carry an Oro Jackson replica at the same scale as the series' other ships.
Edward Newgate, Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world, was worth 5,046,000,000 when he died at Marineford. His bounty has the peculiarity of having been frozen for years: an undisputed Emperor, he did not move, and the Government had no reason to re-evaluate a man nobody dared to attack. His poster, white hair and crescent moustache, is one of the most famous in the series, and our Whitebeard canvas reproduces it in its original format. His adopted son Portgas D. Ace, commander of the second division, was worth 550,000,000 berries when he was captured by Blackbeard and then executed; the wanted poster of Ace in the flames is, along with Luffy's, the most requested in our range.
That leaves the grey area: Rocks D. Xebec, the captain of Kaido, Big Mom, Whitebeard and Shiki, who fell at God Valley thirty-eight years ago, had a confirmed bounty whose amount has never been shown. The same goes for Kozuki Oden, who sailed with Whitebeard and then with Roger, and for Silvers Rayleigh, Roger's first mate, whose bounty exists but remains illegible on the only poster ever glimpsed. These three unknowns are precisely the subject of the series' next film, One Piece Film: God Valley, announced for summer 2027; our article on God Valley gathers everything known about the incident. Fans expect this film, or the ongoing Elbaf arc, to reveal Rocks' bounty, which could well dethrone Roger's.
The former Seven Warlords: frozen bounties, reawakened bounties
The Seven Warlords of the Sea (Shichibukai) were pirates sanctioned by the Government: in exchange for their allegiance, their bounty was frozen, never erased. The abolition of the system, voted at the Levely in chapter 956, reactivated all these bounties at once, and chapter 1058 showed what the Marines really thought of their former allies. The table compares the frozen bounty with the current one.
| Former Warlord | Frozen bounty | Current bounty | Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dracule Mihawk | Unknown | 3,590,000,000 | Cross Guild |
| Buggy | 15,000,000 | 3,189,000,000 | Cross Guild, Emperor |
| Crocodile | 81,000,000 | 1,965,000,000 | Cross Guild |
| Boa Hancock | 80,000,000 | 1,659,000,000 | Empress of Amazon Lily |
| Jinbe | 250,000,000 | 1,100,000,000 | Straw Hat Pirates |
| Trafalgar Law | 440,000,000 | 3,000,000,000 | Heart Pirates |
| Edward Weevil | 480,000,000 | 480,000,000 | Captured by the Marines |
| Donquixote Doflamingo | 340,000,000 | 340,000,000 | Impel Down |
| Gecko Moria | 320,000,000 | 320,000,000 | Blackbeard's prisoner |
| Bartholomew Kuma | 296,000,000 | 296,000,000 | Freed, in Elbaf |
| Marshall D. Teach | 0 | 3,996,000,000 | Emperor |
The gaps are dizzying. Crocodile, whose 81,000,000 bounty dated from his entry into the system and never moved during Alabasta, comes out at 1,965,000,000: the Marines have factored in his past, his attempted coup and his place as co-founder of the Cross Guild. The canvas of Sir Crocodile with his cigar reproduces the 81 million poster that Netflix viewers discover. Boa Hancock, who went from 80,000,000 to 1,659,000,000 in chapter 1059, was re-evaluated after Blackbeard's attack on Amazon Lily, during which she petrified part of his crew; her Empress poster is the most elegant in the range. Mihawk, who had no known bounty before joining the system, receives 3,590,000,000 straight away, which places him ahead of Luffy: the Government considers the world's greatest swordsman to be the real power of the Cross Guild. The wanted poster of Mihawk in the black hat is one of the three versions of his poster we offer.
At the other end, the captured Warlords keep their old, inactive bounty: Doflamingo, 340,000,000 since Impel Down, and Weevil, 480,000,000, arrested by Admiral Ryokugyu after Wano. Kuma, turned into a weapon and then freed by Bonney and the revolutionaries at Egghead, keeps his original 296,000,000, a figure dating from chapter 234 that has never been updated. And Jinbe shows how freezing works: his 250,000,000 corresponds to the moment he gave up the title so as not to fight Whitebeard; free of that status, he climbs to 438,000,000 and then to 1,100,000,000 on joining Luffy.
The Worst Generation: from Sabaody to today
On the Sabaody Archipelago, eleven rookies worth more than 100,000,000 cross paths at the same time: the Supernovas, whom the press later renames the "Worst Generation" by adding Blackbeard. Their bounties at the time, revealed in chapter 498, have become a comparison game for readers, because they show who kept their promises. Here is how far each of them has come.
| Pirate | Bounty at Sabaody | Current bounty | Evolution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eustass Kid | 315,000,000 | 3,000,000,000 | Then 470,000,000 after the timeskip; a failed Emperor, beaten by Shanks |
| Monkey D. Luffy | 300,000,000 | 3,000,000,000 | Emperor |
| Trafalgar Law | 200,000,000 | 3,000,000,000 | Then 440,000,000 and 500,000,000; beaten by Blackbeard |
| Scratchmen Apoo | 198,000,000 | 350,000,000 | Joined Kaido |
| Basil Hawkins | 249,000,000 | 320,000,000 | Joined Kaido, defeated by Killer |
| Capone Bege | 138,000,000 | 350,000,000 | Then 300,000,000; tried to assassinate Big Mom |
| Jewelry Bonney | 140,000,000 | 320,000,000 | Re-evaluated in chapter 1060 |
| X Drake | 222,000,000 | 222,000,000 | Undercover Marine, bounty never updated |
| Killer | 162,000,000 | 200,000,000 | Kid's first mate |
| Roronoa Zoro | 120,000,000 | 1,111,000,000 | The group's only lieutenant above a billion |
| Urouge | 108,000,000 | 108,000,000 | Missing since the New World |
The podium holds no surprises: the three captains who brought down Kaido and Big Mom have each been worth 3,000,000,000 since chapter 1053, a tie wanted by the Government so as not to name a winner. Fate then decided: Kid lost his crew to Shanks at Elbaf, Law was beaten by Blackbeard on Winner Island, but their bounties remain active since neither has been captured. Kid's poster with the mechanical arm and Law's at 500 million, the last before the 3 billion, are the two Worst Generation wanted posters we offer. The most interesting case is Jewelry Bonney: frozen for a long time at 140,000,000, she receives 320,000,000 in chapter 1060, even before Egghead, without the reason being explained; readers saw it as the first sign of the Government's interest in Kuma's daughter, which the following arc confirmed. Her canvas reproduces that poster. Finally, X Drake is the group's curiosity: a Marine captain undercover with Kaido, he has been dragging around a 222,000,000 bounty for ten years that the Government cannot withdraw without unmasking him.
Recently revealed bounties: Elbaf and the latest posters
This is the section that moves: it lists the bounties revealed since the end of Wano, in chapter order, and will be updated with every new poster. As of 22 September 2026, the latest one is Loki's.

| Chapter | Character | Bounty | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1053 | Luffy, Kid, Law | 3,000,000,000 each | End of Wano, new Emperors |
| 1058 | Straw Hat Pirates | 8,816,001,000 in total | All the crew's posters |
| 1058 | Mihawk, Buggy, Crocodile | 3,590,000,000 · 3,189,000,000 · 1,965,000,000 | Birth of the Cross Guild |
| 1059 | Blackbeard, Boa Hancock | 3,996,000,000 · 1,659,000,000 | Attack on Amazon Lily |
| 1060 | Jewelry Bonney | 320,000,000 | Before Egghead |
| 1082 and 1087 | Marines (Cross Guild) | Up to five billion | Reverse bounties, see below |
| 1130 | Dorry and Brogy | 1,800,000,000 each | The Little Garden giants, re-evaluated after Egghead |
| 1131 | Loki | 2,600,000,000 | Elbaf's cursed prince |
The surprise of Elbaf is Dorry and Brogy. The two giants Luffy meets on Little Garden, at the very start of the Grand Line, were then worth 100,000,000 each, century-old bounties. Their intervention at Egghead, where they charged the Marine fleet to cover the crew's escape, raised them to 1,800,000,000 each in chapter 1130: eighteen times more, in one go, the biggest jump in the history of the series. Our Elbaf giant figure, available as Dorry or Brogy, dates from this re-evaluation. Loki, Elbaf's chained prince, appears in chapter 1131 with 2,600,000,000, which places him twelfth in the overall ranking without ever having left his island: his bounty punishes the murder of King Harald, his father, and the fear he inspires in the Government. It is the first time a character has entered the top 15 directly with his very first poster.
Two other recent amounts shed light on the past rather than the present. Ginny, Kuma's partner and Bonney's mother, was worth 190,000,000 at her death, revealed in Kuma's memories at Egghead. And Sabo, Luffy's sworn brother who became chief of staff of the Revolutionary Army, has been worth at least 602,000,000 since he took on Ace's fruit; the figure of Sabo with his flaming fist shows him with the power that justifies that figure. What the Elbaf arc has not yet delivered: the crew's new bounties after Egghead, that of Shamrock, Shanks' twin, who is not a pirate but a Holy Knight, and that of Monkey D. Dragon, whose number fans have been awaiting for twenty years.
The Cross Guild's reverse bounties on Marines
In chapter 1058, the world discovers that Buggy, Mihawk and Crocodile have founded the Cross Guild, an organisation that recruits pirates by offering them the reverse of the existing system: bounties on Marines. Each officer receives a value in stars and crowns, one star being worth roughly 100,000,000 berries and one crown roughly 1,000,000,000. Chapters 1082 and 1087 showed the first posters.
| Cross Guild rank | Approximate value | Marines concerned |
|---|---|---|
| 5 crowns | 5,000,000,000 | Sakazuki, known as Akainu, Fleet Admiral |
| 3 crowns | 3,000,000,000 | Monkey D. Garp, Kizaru, Fujitora, Ryokugyu |
| 5 stars | 500,000,000 | Koby, Prince Grus, Kujaku, Sentomaru |
| 2 stars | 200,000,000 | Hibari |
| 1 star | 100,000,000 | Helmeppo |
The list is a declaration of war and a ranking of the Marines by their enemies. Akainu, the man who killed Ace and who heads the Marines, is worth five crowns, as much as Whitebeard in the other system; the four admirals and former admirals, Garp included, are worth three each, the equivalent of an Emperor. The presence of Koby at five stars, level with Sentomaru and two elite officers, struck readers: Alvida's little cabin boy, Luffy's very first friend, has become a Marine hero whom pirates consider as dangerous as a 500,000,000 pirate. It is precisely this bounty that explains his abduction by Blackbeard on Hachinosu, and Garp's rescue that follows. Our Garp the Hero figure, arms crossed, shows him as he lands on the pirates' island to get him back. The system has one consequence fans noticed straight away: for the first time, a reader can compare a Marine and a pirate on the same scale, and Akainu is worth more than Shanks.
The strangest bounties: Chopper, Sanji, Buggy and the rest
Oda uses bounties to make people laugh as much as to impress, and some posters have become running gags over hundreds of chapters. Here are the cases everyone knows, and a few nobody notices.
Chopper: 50, then 100, then 1,000 berries
The most famous bounty in the series is the smallest. After Enies Lobby, the Marines put 50 berries on Tony Tony Chopper's head: his photo shows him in his small reindeer form, and the investigators mistook him for the crew's pet. After Dressrosa, the amount goes up to 100, and after Wano, where he nonetheless healed an entire army and fought Queen, to 1,000 berries. The gag has held for twenty years: while his crewmates cross the billion mark, the doctor stays in a category that would not even buy a meal. We carry both posters, the 50 berry one and the 1,000 berry one, the most gifted items in the whole range.
Sanji: a drawing, then "Only Alive"
Sanji holds the crew's two strangest posters. The first, at 77,000,000, is a drawing: the Marines had no photo of him, and the charcoal portrait looks nothing like him, which drives him to despair every time he sees it. The third, at 330,000,000 after Whole Cake Island, bears the words "Only Alive", where every other pirate is "Dead or Alive". The reason is family: his father, Vinsmoke Judge, king of Germa, demanded that he be brought back to him alive. The words have stayed on the current 1,032,000,000 poster, and they make Sanji the only pirate in the world the Government refuses to kill.
Buggy: 3,189,000,000 for a clown
Buggy is the series' greatest misunderstanding. With a bounty of 15,000,000 in the East Blue, where Luffy beats him in a few minutes, he ends up in Impel Down, then at Marineford, where his past as a cabin boy aboard Roger's ship makes him a celebrity; the Government offers him a seat among the Warlords. When Mihawk and Crocodile take refuge in his organisation after the system is abolished, the press assumes Buggy is their leader, and the Marines, in chapter 1058, put 3,189,000,000 on his head and name him Emperor. Mihawk and Crocodile let him be because the clown draws the spotlight and the trouble. Our Buggy the Clown canvas reproduces the East Blue poster, the one where he was still worth fifteen million.
And the rest
- Nami starts at 16,000,000, the smallest first bounty of any human in the crew, with a smiling poster taken without her noticing.
- Bepo, the Heart Pirates' bear, is worth 500 berries: like Chopper, he was mistaken for a mascot.
- Brook was wanted for fifty years under a 33,000,000 bounty while he was a skeleton lost in the Florian Triangle.
- Curly Dadan, the bandit who raised Luffy and Ace, is worth 7,800,000 berries, a bounty issued by the Goa coast guard and not by the Marines.
- Higuma, the bandit who cost Shanks an arm, was worth 8,000,000, a mountain bandit's amount.
- Demalo Black, the fake Luffy of Sabaody, was worth 26,000,000, and he recruited captains for his crew on condition that they were worth more than 70,000,000.
- Jango, Kuro's hypnotist, is the only pirate whose 9,000,000 bounty was erased for good behaviour: he became a Marine.
- Little Oars Jr., the giant descended from Oars, is worth 550,000,000, exactly as much as Ace, the man for whom he threw himself into Marineford.
The unknown bounties: Dragon, Rayleigh, Rocks, Shiryu…
Some of the series' most awaited bounties have never been shown. Monkey D. Dragon, leader of the Revolutionary Army and Luffy's father, is presented by Robin as the most wanted criminal in the world; the Government has never published a number, and Oda has kept the mystery alive since Loguetown. Silvers Rayleigh has a confirmed bounty, but the poster was only glimpsed, illegible. Rocks D. Xebec and Kozuki Oden had bounties, never quantified. Among the Emperors, the crews keep their secrets: the bounties of Ben Beckman, Yasopp and Lucky Roux, Shanks' lieutenants, are unknown, as are those of Blackbeard's Ten Titanic Captains, Shiryu, Catarina Devon, Sanjuan Wolf or Avalo Pizarro, even though they have been part of every major recent event. On Whitebeard's side, Jozu and Vista, two commanders, have no known amount. And two characters have a bounty the manga has never shown but which is almost certain: Zeff, the former pirate turned cook at the Baratie, and Crocus, Roger's doctor. To find your way around this geography, our One Piece world map locates each of these islands.
How to read a wanted poster
A One Piece wanted poster follows a fixed template, that of Wild West posters, and each of its elements means something. At the top, WANTED. In the centre, the photo, taken by the Marines in often haphazard conditions: Luffy laughs, Nami smiles, Sanji is a drawing, Usopp poses, Chopper is a reindeer. Under the photo, DEAD OR ALIVE, except for Sanji, wanted ONLY ALIVE. Then the name, with the epithet given by the Marines, "Straw Hat", "Pirate Hunter", "Cat Burglar", which often becomes the character's nickname around the world. Next, the amount, preceded by the berry symbol, a barred B, and followed by a dash. Finally, at the bottom, the word MARINE and the World Government's seal. The berry is the currency of the whole world of the series; the manga gives no exchange rate, and fans read it out of habit as a yen, which makes a three-billion bounty a sum in the order of twenty million euros.

The poster has a second life outside the story: it has become the franchise's most widespread decorative object, because it works like a portrait and reads at a glance. Three tips if you hang one. Choose the right era: a character's poster changes with their bounties, and Luffy's at 30,000,000, straw hat and grin, has nothing in common with the Gear 5 one; long-time fans often prefer Luffy in the straw hat. Respect the format: the original poster is vertical, taller than it is wide, and a canvas that keeps those proportions is instantly recognisable. Finally, build a series: a full crew, the four Emperors, or the three from the Worst Generation tell a story on a wall, where a single poster just looks nice. All our canvases are gathered in One Piece posters, with their sizes. And if you prefer the third dimension, One Piece figures reproduce, for most of the characters ranked here, the pose of their poster.
Sources: Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, chapters cited in the text; the series' website, one-piece.com; the Vivre Cards and the One Piece exhibition for the amounts missing from the manga (Marco, Ace, Bepo, Big Mom's and Kaido's commanders).
Frequently asked questions
What is the biggest bounty in One Piece?
Gol D. Roger's, the Pirate King: 5,564,800,000 berries, revealed in chapter 957. It has been inactive since his execution in Loguetown. Whitebeard follows with 5,046,000,000, also inactive. No living pirate has surpassed them.
What is the biggest active bounty today?
Shanks', at 4,048,900,000 berries. Next come Blackbeard (3,996,000,000), Dracule Mihawk (3,590,000,000), Buggy (3,189,000,000), then Luffy, Kid and Law at 3,000,000,000 each. Kaido and Big Mom, at 4,611,100,000 and 4,388,000,000, have had an unknown status since Wano.
What is Luffy's current bounty?
3,000,000,000 berries, since chapter 1053, after Kaido's defeat at Wano. It is his seventh poster, the first to show him in Gear 5. No new bounty has dropped since Egghead; the Elbaf arc is ongoing.
What are all of Luffy's bounties in order?
30,000,000 after Arlong Park, 100,000,000 after Alabasta, 300,000,000 after Enies Lobby, 400,000,000 after Marineford and Impel Down, 500,000,000 after Dressrosa, 1,500,000,000 after Whole Cake Island and 3,000,000,000 after Wano.
What is Zoro's bounty?
1,111,000,000 berries since chapter 1058. His previous bounties: 60,000,000 after Arlong Park, 120,000,000 after Enies Lobby, 320,000,000 after Dressrosa. He is the only Worst Generation lieutenant above a billion, and he is ahead of Sanji on every poster except the first.
What is Sanji's bounty, and why does his poster say "Only Alive"?
1,032,000,000 berries. His poster has said "Only Alive" since his 330,000,000 bounty after Whole Cake Island: his father Vinsmoke Judge, king of Germa, demanded that he be brought back to him alive. His first poster, at 77,000,000, was a drawing that looked nothing like him, for lack of a photo.
What is the Straw Hats' total bounty?
8,816,001,000 berries since chapter 1058: Luffy 3,000,000,000, Zoro 1,111,000,000, Jinbe 1,100,000,000, Sanji 1,032,000,000, Robin 930,000,000, Usopp 500,000,000, Franky 394,000,000, Brook 383,000,000, Nami 366,000,000 and Chopper 1,000.
Why is Chopper's bounty 1,000 berries?
Because the Marines take him for the crew's pet: his photo shows him in his small reindeer form. He started at 50 berries after Enies Lobby, then 100 after Dressrosa, then 1,000 after Wano, where he nonetheless fought Queen and healed hundreds of samurai.
What is Shanks' bounty?
4,048,900,000 berries, revealed in chapter 957: the biggest active bounty in the world. An older poster put him at 1,040,000,000 in his youth, when he had just founded his crew.
What is Blackbeard's bounty?
3,996,000,000 berries since chapter 1059, after his victory over Trafalgar Law. He had no bounty when he became a Warlord, then 2,247,600,000 after stealing Whitebeard's power. His 3,996,000,000 leaves him four million short of the symbolic mark.
What are Whitebeard's and Roger's bounties?
Whitebeard: 5,046,000,000 berries; Roger: 5,564,800,000. Both have been inactive since their deaths, but they remain the two biggest bounties ever issued. Both were revealed in chapter 957.
What is Dragon's bounty?
It has never been revealed. Monkey D. Dragon, leader of the Revolutionary Army and Luffy's father, is described as the most wanted criminal in the world, but the manga has never shown either his poster or his amount.
What is Mihawk's bounty?
3,590,000,000 berries, revealed in chapter 1058 when the Cross Guild was founded. He had no known bounty before joining the Seven Warlords, and he comes out of the system directly ahead of Luffy.
Why does Buggy have a bounty of more than 3 billion?
Through a misunderstanding. When Mihawk and Crocodile moved into his organisation after the Seven Warlords were abolished, the press believed Buggy was its leader. The Marines put 3,189,000,000 on his head in chapter 1058 and named him Emperor. He was worth 15,000,000 in the East Blue.
What is the Cross Guild, and why does it put bounties on Marines?
The Cross Guild is the organisation founded by Buggy, Mihawk and Crocodile after the Seven Warlords were abolished. It reverses the system: it pays pirates who go after Marines, ranked in stars (roughly 100,000,000 each) and crowns (roughly 1,000,000,000). Akainu is worth five crowns; Garp, Kizaru, Fujitora and Ryokugyu three; Koby five stars.
What are the latest bounties revealed in One Piece?
Loki, the prince of Elbaf, at 2,600,000,000 (chapter 1131), and the giants Dorry and Brogy at 1,800,000,000 each (chapter 1130), after their charge against the Marines at Egghead. Before them, Jewelry Bonney had gone up to 320,000,000 in chapter 1060.
Does a bounty go down when a pirate dies or is captured?
No. It becomes inactive but stays on the books: Roger, Whitebeard and Ace keep their amounts, Doflamingo his 340,000,000 in Impel Down. The only ways to lose a bounty are to be pardoned, as Jango was when he became a Marine, or to have it frozen by becoming a Warlord, a status that no longer exists.
Further reading
- Every poster in its original format, from the 30 million Luffy to the 3 billion Gear 5: our One Piece posters.
- The characters from the ranking in three dimensions, often in the pose of their poster: our One Piece figures, and the whole One Piece range.
- A bounty is only one indicator of power: the ranking of the strongest One Piece characters.
- To place each poster in the story: One Piece arcs in order.
- Rocks, Roger, Garp and the incident that started it all: One Piece Film God Valley and the God Valley incident.
- The 1,111,000,000 swordsman and his blades: Zoro's swords.
- Giving the right character's poster or figure as a gift: our One Piece gift guide.
- 1,111,000,000 berries, and everything else: everything about Roronoa Zoro, the crew's swordsman.
- Bounties seen crew by crew: the guide to One Piece's crews, the ten Straw Hats member by member, the Grand Fleet, Roger, Rocks and the Emperors.

