How much money does each heist bring in GTA Online? We will show you all the heists and where you can earn the most money.
What are heists? In GTA Online, heists are group activities. Typically, it requires 2 to 4 players to even be able to start them. The Cayo Perico Heist broke this rule and since then, there are several heists where you can also act individually.
Heists are a PvE activity. They are usually divided into different acts or stages. From preparation, through smaller missions to the big finale. The finale pays out players a substantial amount of GTA dollars.
In this overview, we introduce you to each heist briefly and show how much money you can earn there. This way, you can quickly see which one is particularly worthwhile if you want to get rich in GTA Online.
The Standard Heists
The following five heists were the first to enter the online world of GTA 5. For the Fleeca Job, you only need two players. The other four heists are played with four players each. The standard heists are available in the difficulty levels Easy, Medium (normal), and Hard.
Later heists only have two difficulty levels and forgo “easy”.
The Fleeca Job – $250,250
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $11,500 GTA dollars.
How many players? 2 players
What happens there? In this heist, you are supposed to rob the Fleeca Bank. This is a small branch. During the ride, the passenger hacks the bank’s security measures. When you arrive at the job, one player keeps the hostages in check and threatens them with their weapon or shots. The other player cracks the safe with the drill and steals the loot.
After that, both players get into the car with the loot, break through a few roadblocks and are then picked up by a helicopter. It is equipped with a huge magnet to lift the getaway vehicle off the road.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Easy | $100,625 |
| Medium | $201,250 |
| Hard | $250,250 |
The Prison Break – $875,000
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $40,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 4 players
What happens there? The Prison Break consists of four setup missions and a finale. Lester introduces you to Agent 14. He wants you to help someone escape from prison and get them to safety.
In the setup missions, you have to steal vehicles and eliminate people who play an important role in the story. You will also obtain the transport plan for the prison.
The finale revolves around the escape. Once that’s done, you take the person to an airport. Once you reach the checkpoint in the air, your crew jumps out of the plane with parachutes.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Easy | $350,000 |
| Medium | $700,000 |
| Hard | $875,000 |
The Humane Labs Raid – $1,181,500
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $54,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 4 players
What happens there? The heist on Humane Labs is also organized by Agent 14, whom you got to know during the Prison Break. It consists of five setup missions and a finale.
This time, you will steal from the “Humane Labs and Research” facility and find clues about bio-weapons. In the setup missions, you steal the key codes, Insurgent vehicles, and a Valkyrie combat helicopter. You will also need to steal and deliver the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse Device).
The finale awaits you with action. The four players are split into two teams. One takes care of the ground job and breaks into the building. The other team supports the ground team from the air and eliminates attackers from there.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Easy | $472,500 |
| Medium | $945,000 |
| Hard | $1,181,500 |
Series A Funding – $883,750
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $40,400 GTA dollars.
How many players? 4 players
What happens there? In the heist “Series A Funding” you will reunite with Trevor, whom you already know from the story of GTA 5. He has made a drug deal. But he is missing something – the drugs. This heist runs differently than the others, because the finale is not the big theft.
The heist consists of five setup missions where you steal different drugs each time. In the finale, you need to bring the stolen drugs to Trevor. On the way, you encounter the gangs whose stuff you stole. They are not happy about this and try to reclaim their goods with force.
If you manage to bring the drugs to Trevor, there is a surprise at the end of the story.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Easy | $353,500 |
| Medium | $707,000 |
| Hard | $883,750 |
The Pacific Standard – $1,875,000
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $100,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 4 players
What happens there? In the Pacific Standard robbery, you will again encounter five setup missions and a finale. Although you have to pay a hefty sum in preparation costs, it’s a big deal here. You are supposed to rob the main branch of the Pacific Standard Bank in downtown.
In the setup missions, you steal vehicles, including your getaway motorcycles. You also prepare for an important hack. Because in the finale, you have to storm the bank and take it over. To steal the loot, the hack must be applied.
Fill your pockets as much as possible. Then it’s out of the bank and to the getaway motorcycles. But you can also take other vehicles. A wild chase follows, leading through a canyon to the sea.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Easy | $750,000 |
| Medium | $1,500,000 |
| Hard | $1,875,000 |
The Doomsday Heists
This heist is divided into three different acts that pay out. These are basically three small heists. To start the heists, you need to be a CEO, VIP, or a motorcycle club member. Because you need a base for the heists. In such a base, there is a planning room for the Doomsday Heist.
The Data Breaches – $1,218,750
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $65,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 2 to 4 players
What happens there? After seven preparation missions, you must take your crew to an IAA base in this finale and eliminate the Merryweather agents.
If you manage to do that, you fight your way to a weapons room. From there, you can control towers and eliminate heavily armed Merryweather agents.
Once everything is eliminated, the mission is complete.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Medium | $975,000 |
| Hard | $1,218,750 |
The Bogdan Problem – $1,781,250
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $95,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 2 to 4 players
What happens there? In the Bogdan Problem, you will have nine preparation missions followed by the finale. First, you acquire important data and vehicles.
The crew will be divided into ground and air teams for the finale. The ground team is actually in the water with the Stromberg vehicles. The water team tries to find access to the submarine and must then find a contact person inside to steal information from the enemy.
The air team is in a heavily armed Avenger and protects them. Among other things, they attack with combat helicopters.
If the crew in the water successfully finds the “enemy”, the submarine starts self-destruction. The crew must escape before it explodes. From then on, you have to shoot away enemies and escape in the air.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Medium | $1,425,000 |
| Hard | $1,781,250 |
The Doomsday Scenario – $2,250,000
What is the cost? The preparation costs are $120,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 2 to 4 players
What happens there? This act is narratively the grand finale of the Doomsday Heists. Together with your crew, you first choose one of the two provided vehicles. A Barrage ATV with machine guns and grenade launchers or a TM-02 Khanjali tank. The TM-02 is one of the 5 vehicles in GTA Online that everyone should own.
With one of the vehicles, you then speed to the secret base on Mount Chiliad and must fight some enemies there. In the process, you also destroy supply crates.
Your crew must then hack terminals to prevent a rocket launch. That is supposed to destroy all of Los Santos. Once that’s done, you must eliminate Avon Hertz, who wants to escape with a jetpack. With your crew and jetpacks, you pursue him and must fend off attack helicopters. The ultimate task is to eliminate Avon and the program Clifford.
| Difficulty | Payout |
| Medium | $1,800,000 |
| Hard | $2,250,000 |
The Casino Heist – 3 Scenarios – Up to $3,619,000
In the Casino Heist, you first need to scope out the casino. Depending on the loot you find there, it will affect your payment for yourself and your crew.
Aside from events that occasionally spawn diamonds, there is no way to influence what loot awaits you. It can be cash, artwork, gold, or diamonds.
Every time it’s about robbing the casino. Depending on your tactic, the approach changes slightly. Ultimately, you should find a way into the casino, steal the loot from the vault room, and then find a buyer with your getaway vehicles who will buy the stolen goods from you.
| Loot | Difficulty | Payment |
| Cash | Normal | $2,115,000 |
| Cash | Hard | $2,326,500 |
| Artwork | Normal | $2,350,000 |
| Artwork | Hard | $2,585,000 |
| Gold | Normal | $2,585,000 |
| Gold | Hard | $2,843,500 |
| Diamonds | Normal | $3,290,000 |
| Diamonds | Hard | $3,619,000 |
The Diamond Casino Heist – Huge Con
What happens there? In this version of the Casino Heist, you disguise yourself with your crew to legally gain access to the casino. This can be as a pest control officer, janitor, police officer, or Yung Ancestor.
In the vault room, you must hack security doors and drill open the cash lockers.
For an easier exit, you can use other disguises found in the washroom. These could be fire uniforms, SWAT gear, or high roller outfits. If you get spotted somewhere, you must shoot your way out and to the getaway vehicles. If you manage to do that and get rid of the cops, you can drive to the buyer and complete the heist.
The Diamond Casino Heist – Quiet & Stealthy
What happens there? In this approach, you should reach the vault room undetected. You have a stun gun to temporarily disable cameras and metal detectors or to incapacitate guards.
If you complete the EMP mission beforehand, you can use this to shut down power in the casino for a minute. This causes lights, cameras, and detectors to fail. In addition, guards have reduced visibility to spot you.
When you arrive at the vault room, you must drill it open and plunder it, and then sneak your way out of the building. However, shortly after leaving the vault room, the alarm will go off.
Outside, you then have to escape the police and, as usual, flee with your getaway vehicles to finally meet the buyer of the stolen loot.
The Diamond Casino Heist – Aggressive
What happens there? The aggressive approach requires all your weapon skills. From the start, it’s all about shooting your way to the vault and escaping with brute force.
As a preparation mission, you can unlock heavier armor. If you wear this, you will move slower but can take more damage than usual.
This time, you do not drill the vault room open, but blast your way through. Inside, you also don’t need to hack, but can deploy thermite charges to open the security doors.
After looting, you must fight against many other police officers and SWAT units.
Then, as usual, it’s off to the getaway vehicles, where you will then meet the buyer.
In our guide to the casino heist in GTA Online, you can find out everything you need to know about this heist.
The Cayo Perico Heist – Up to $4,570,600
How much does it cost? The preparation costs are $25,000 GTA dollars.
How many players? 1 to 4 players. This is the first heist in GTA Online that can be played solo.
What happens there? The Cayo Perico Heist arrived in GTA Online in December 2020. The update was special because the new heist takes place on the first map expansion of GTA Online.
In the heist, you are tasked with obtaining important information from El Rubio. Rubio is the drug lord who resides on his own island.
After purchasing a submarine, you first need to scope out the island. Besides the important information from Rubio, you will also find paintings, weed, coke, cash, and gold.
The heist is divided into fulfilling primary and secondary objectives. You are to complete the primaries. With the secondaries, you can fill your pockets and bank account additionally.
With our solo guide for Cayo Perico, you can quickly secure many millions of GTA dollars.
Primary objectives:
| Loot | Difficulty | Payout |
| Alcohol | Normal | 630,000 GTA $ |
| Alcohol | Hard | 693,000 GTA $ |
| Necklace | Normal | 700,000 GTA $ |
| Necklace | Hard | 770,000 GTA $ |
| Bondholder | Normal | 770,000 GTA $ |
| Bondholder | Hard | 847,000 GTA $ |
| Madrazo Data | Normal | 1,100,000 GTA $ |
| Madrazo Data | Hard | Not possible on hard |
| Pink Diamond | Normal | 1,300,000 GTA $ |
| Pink Diamond | Hard | 1,430,000 GTA $ |
| Panther Statue | Normal | 1,900,000 GTA $ |
| Panther Statue | Hard | 2,090,000 GTA $ |
Secondary objectives:
| Loot | Value per | Maximal |
| Art | $180,000 / Painting | $360,000 |
| Weed | $135,980 / Package | $359,100 |
| Coke | $202,500 / Package | $405,000 |
| Cash | $83,250 / Bundle | $333,000 |
| Gold | $333,000 / Pack | $499,500 |
While you can also complete this heist completely solo, it brings you less loot. With more players, you have more bags that can accommodate the secondary objectives. However, you also give your teammates a cut of the entire loot. You must decide what is most worthwhile for you.
Bonus: Contracts and Raids
What are Contracts and Raids? Rockstar Games distinguishes between heists, raids, and contracts, although all three types of missions share a very similar structure.
- In contracts and raids, you also have to play a series of preparation missions before you can fill your pockets in the big finale.
- However, contracts yield significantly less money than the proper heists, but consist of fewer missions. In addition, the narrative part of the contracts is usually significantly smaller and less important.
- There are also differences with the raids versus standard heists, such as the fact that the reward cannot be split and the leader gets everything.
The first contract robberies were introduced with the “Los Santos Tuners” update in GTA Online and are part of the auto workshop – a business you can acquire. Since then, further mission series in the style of auto workshop contracts have been added to the game. Thus far, the Cluckin’ Bell Farm Raid is the only raid available.
Auto Workshop Contracts (1-4 Players)
Reward Leader:
| Contract | Payout |
| The Bank Contract | $128,000 |
| The Data Contract | $170,000 |
| The Superdollar Deal | $185,000 |
| The Prison Contract | $175,000 |
| The Agency Deal | $182,000 |
| The E.C.U Job | $172,000 |
| The Lost Contract | $180,000 |
| The Union Depository Contract | $300,000 to $375,000 |
Reward Assistants: $50,000 to $65,000
The Contract: Dr. Dre (1-4 Players)
Reward: $1,000,000 (only for the leader)
Requires: Agency to start
Scrapyard Heists (1-4 Players)
What is that? The scrapyard offers you 5 different heist scenarios in which you receive a vehicle as a reward. Every week, three vehicles are selected to be the subject of the heist. You can then either sell the vehicles to Yusuf Amir or dismantle them at your scrapyard – the latter bringing in slightly less money.
The sale price of the vehicles and thus your revenue fluctuates, as each week different cars in various versions are available in one of the 5 heist scenarios.
Reward: between $200,000 and $400,000
Required: Scrapyard
FIB Files (1-4 Players)
What is that? There are a total of 4 different mission series that you can play once a week. Each week, one of the four mission series is marked as a “Priority File” and offers double the money during that week.
| Files | Payout | Payout if Priority |
| The “Black Box” File | $155,000 | $310,000 |
| The “Brute Force Method” File | $158,000 | $316,000 |
| The “Art” File | $306,000 | $306,000 |
| The “Project Breakaway” File | $150,000 | $300,000 |
The Cluckin’ Bell Farm Raid (1-4 Players)
What is that? The Cluckin’ Bell Farm Raid is a kind of contact mission from LSPD Officer Vincent Effenburger, who tasks you with disrupting the activities of a cartel. You can start the mission series by simply driving to the “V” on the map and talking to Vincent. You do not need any businesses or anything similar.
Reward: $500,000 for the leader (assistants get $50,000)
Required: Nothing
Textile Factory Infiltrations (1-4 Players)
What is that? The textile factory infiltrations differ greatly from the well-known heists where you have to break into a vault and steal treasures. Here, it’s more about data theft, sabotage, and espionage. Your successes are rewarded with a large sum of GTA dollars.
Reward: Solo, you get between $250,000 to $350,000, depending on the mission (in a team, the reward increases from $450,000 to $650,000).
Required: You need the property “Textile Factory” which costs between $2,200,000 to $4,500,000 depending on the version. There are no startup fees for the missions, and you can repeat them as often as you want for free to farm money.
“KnoWay Out” Heist (1-4 Players)
What is that? Michael comes to you and asks you to break into the main headquarters of “KnoWay” and delete all data that implicates him. You must plan the heist classically through several steps to then complete it in a finale. For many, this heist is considered one of the best in the game, as not only does Michael return, but also lures with new features like the villas.
Reward: Between $1,800,000 to $2,100,000 if you go solo (between $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 if you act as a team).
Required: You need a villa that costs between $5,500,000 and $12,000,000 depending on the version and equipment. Additionally, you must pay $100,000 for each start of the heist.
If you complete the various missions regularly – whether heist, contract, or raid – you should quickly have some millions of GTA dollars in your account that you can spend on various luxury goods like expensive cars. To ensure that you don’t regret the car purchase, you can take a look at our list of the 35 fastest cars in GTA Online.
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