Gallium Price per kg (United States)

The price is down 11.0% over the past month and +72.2% over the past year.

In the past year the monthly price has moved between $501.60 and $1,720.

Measured over longer windows, gallium is +72.2% on the year and +564.1% over five years.

Gallium (Ga) is the metal behind two of the most important compound semiconductors. Gallium nitride powers the radio-frequency chips in 5G base stations and military radar, as well as fast chargers and the power electronics of data centres and electric vehicles. Gallium arsenide goes into phone RF front-ends, satellite solar cells, lasers and LEDs. Nearly all of it must be refined to extreme purity before use.

Other uses

• Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells
• Additive in neodymium-iron-boron magnets
• Low-melting liquid metal alloys such as galinstan
• Medical imaging and thermometers

Gallium is recovered as a by-product of alumina refining, and because China refines most of the world's alumina, it also produces almost all primary gallium. Western refineries could recover more, but only with investment that makes sense when prices stay high. Demand is small in tonnes yet strategic: compound semiconductors for 5G, radar, power electronics and LEDs. China's export controls have split the market, with prices outside China far above those inside.

What moves the price

• Chinese export controls and licensing
• Restart of gallium recovery at Western alumina refineries
• Compound semiconductor demand from telecoms, defence and power electronics
• Stockpiling by governments and chipmakers

Gallium prices were low for most of the 2010s, as Chinese alumina refineries built more recovery capacity than the market needed. In 2023 China placed gallium under export control, and in late 2024 it banned exports to the United States. Prices outside China rose to several times domestic Chinese levels, and Western refiners began to revisit gallium recovery.

As of October 2026, the Stockatomics benchmark price is $1,530 per kg contained.

China produces nearly all of the world's primary gallium, recovered from alumina refining. Japan, South Korea and Russia produce small amounts, and several Western alumina refineries are evaluating or restarting gallium recovery.

Gallium is on the US critical minerals list and the EU critical raw materials list. Nearly all primary supply comes from China, which has restricted exports, and it is hard to substitute in the high-performance semiconductors behind 5G, radar and defence electronics.

Stockatomics publishes a monthly US benchmark price for gallium in US dollars per kg contained, reading as of October 2026. The price is per kg of contained gallium. Because Chinese export controls have split the market, a US price reflects what buyers outside China actually pay, which can be far above Chinese domestic quotes.

Converting the price

• Gallium is usually quoted per kg already; per tonne, multiply by 1,000