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Gallium Price History — Recent 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
How Gallium's Price History Reads Differently From Gold's
Gallium's price history isn't a centuries-old bullion story the way gold's is. Its commercial relevance is comparatively recent, tied to semiconductor and electronics demand that only became significant in recent decades. Today's reference rate is ₹22.98 per gram as of September 17, 2026, and the more meaningful way to track its history is at the per-kilogram level, since that's the unit the industrial gallium market actually deals in.
- Today's rate: ₹22.98/g (₹22,982.64/kg)
- Market type: industrial and electronics-materials, no retail bullion market
- For exact past figures: see the 2026 gallium price history page
This page discusses the qualitative shape of gallium's price story — what tends to move it, and why it doesn't behave like a precious metal. For exact daily, monthly, and annual figures pulled from recorded data, the site's dedicated year-by-year history page is the more precise resource.
Gallium Price History by Weight
Today's Gallium rate is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Gallium costs Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹22.98 | Twenty Three Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹183.86 | One Hundred and Eighty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹229.83 | Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹2,298.26 | Two Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹22,982.64 | Twenty Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Three Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹651.55 | Six Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹714.84 | Seven Hundred and Fifteen Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹22,982,641.00 | Two Crore Twenty Nine Lakh Eighty Two Thousand Six Hundred and Forty One Rupees |
What Shapes Gallium's Price Story Over Time
Three forces have defined gallium's price history more than anything else. First, its status as a byproduct — gallium doesn't get mined on purpose, it's recovered from bauxite processing (the ore behind aluminium) and, to a smaller degree, zinc ore processing. That means gallium supply has historically tracked decisions made in the aluminium and zinc industries, not gallium-specific mining investment.
China's refining dominance and the 2023 turning point
Second, and perhaps most significant recently: China refines the overwhelming majority of the world's gallium. In 2023, China introduced real, publicly announced export-licensing controls on gallium and germanium, a genuine policy step tied to broader technology-trade tensions between major economies. A concentration event of that scale in a market's dominant supplier is exactly the kind of thing that leaves a mark on a commodity's price history.
Third, semiconductor demand cycles. Gallium arsenide and gallium nitride chips feed into markets — 5G hardware, power electronics, high-frequency devices — that themselves go through growth spurts and slower stretches. Because gallium's end-use demand concentrates so heavily in electronics rather than spreading across dozens of unrelated industries the way copper's does, its price history tends to mirror the semiconductor sector's own cycles more closely.
Gallium Price History — Last 10 Days
The most recent Gallium price on record (2026-09-17) is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹22.94.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹22.98 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹22.94 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹22.93 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹22.90 | -0.16 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹23.06 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹23.06 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹23.04 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹23.06 | +0.12 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹22.94 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹22.85 | — |
Using Gallium's History Responsibly
It's tempting to look at a price history and try to extrapolate a pattern forward. Resist that with gallium more than with most metals — the market is thin, the supply chain is concentrated, and a single policy announcement out of one country can move the picture more than years of gradual industrial demand growth. Any forward-looking view belongs on the site's gallium price forecast page, and even there, the language stays deliberately hedged.
What the history does tell you clearly: gallium behaves like the byproduct, concentrated-supply, electronics-demand commodity it actually is — not like gold, not like copper, and not quite like any other metal tracked on this site. That's worth keeping in mind before drawing conclusions from any short window of data, including the 10-day chart above.
Gallium Price History — FAQs
This page discusses gallium's price history qualitatively. For exact recorded figures by month and year, see the site's 2026 gallium price history page, which pulls directly from recorded daily data.
Gallium trades in much smaller volumes than base or precious metals, and its supply depends on byproduct output from bauxite and zinc processing plus refining capacity concentrated heavily in one country. That combination has made gallium's price history more sensitive to supply and policy news than a deeply liquid, widely sourced commodity would be.
China's 2023 export-licensing controls on gallium and germanium were a real, publicly announced policy step tied to broader technology-trade tensions. It's reasonable to expect a policy change of that scale, affecting the country that refines the overwhelming majority of world supply, to leave a mark on the metal's price history — though this page avoids stating a specific figure or percentage that isn't independently verifiable.
Gold has been tracked as a bullion benchmark for centuries. Gallium's commercial relevance is comparatively recent — tied mainly to semiconductor and electronics demand that only became significant in recent decades — so its price history as a widely tracked reference is a much shorter, newer story.
Today's gallium reference rate is ₹22.98 per gram (₹22,982.64 per kilogram) as of September 17, 2026.
