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Recent Tin Price History — 10-Day Window
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Tin Price History: the Short Version
Today's reference point in that history is ₹4.55 per gram, recorded on September 17, 2026. Tin's story as a traded commodity is more concentrated than most base metals. One use case — solder for electronics manufacturing — accounts for the largest share of global demand by a wide margin, which means tin's price history reads less like a diversified industrial metal and more like a proxy for how the global electronics and semiconductor cycle has been running.
That is a genuinely different pattern from a metal like copper or aluminium, where dozens of industries pull demand in different directions at different times. When electronics manufacturing accelerates, tin demand tends to follow closely. When it slows, tin tends to feel it sooner than metals with a broader base of end uses.
Today's Entry in Tin Price History, by Weight
Today's Tin rate is Five Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Tin costs Forty Six Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹4.55 | Five Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹36.42 | Thirty Six Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹45.52 | Forty Six Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹455.22 | Four Hundred and Fifty Five Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹4,552.16 | Four Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹129.05 | One Hundred and Twenty Nine Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹141.59 | One Hundred and Forty Two Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹4,552,158.00 | Forty Five Lakh Fifty Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Eight Rupees |
The Supply Side of the Story
Concentrated demand is only half of what shapes tin's price history — concentrated supply is the other half. China and Indonesia are the two most significant tin-producing countries, and Myanmar and Peru round out the list of genuinely meaningful producers. A metal with output spread across a longer list of countries in roughly even shares tends to absorb a disruption in any single one more easily. Tin doesn't have quite that cushion.
Two long-standing uses that add texture, not the headline
Bronze — the copper-tin alloy used in everything from bearings to marine hardware — and tin plating on steel, the process behind what everyone still calls a "tin can" even though the can itself is steel, are both genuine, long-standing tin uses that predate the electronics era by centuries. Neither drives the bulk of tin's price history the way solder does today, but both keep a steady floor of demand running underneath the bigger electronics-driven swings.
Tin Price History — Daily Record
The most recent Tin price on record (2026-09-17) is Five Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹4.53.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹4.55 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹4.53 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹4.56 | -0.13 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹4.69 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹4.74 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹4.73 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹4.77 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹4.79 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹4.78 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹4.76 | — |
Where to Find the Actual Numbers
This page is deliberately a narrative, not a data table — it explains the pattern rather than listing every historical price point. For the real recorded daily and monthly figures, MetalsCost's dedicated year archive covers the exact data rather than a general account of it; the link sits in the resources section below and in the history table above.
The honest takeaway from tin's price history is not a prediction about what comes next — that belongs on the forecast page, not here — but a sense of how this particular metal behaves. A demand base concentrated in one fast-moving industry, sitting on top of a supply base concentrated in a handful of countries, is why tin's chart tends to move with electronics-industry news more directly than most other base metals.
Tin Price History — FAQs
This page covers the trend qualitatively. For the exact recorded daily and monthly figures, MetalsCost's dedicated year archive at /tin-price-history/2026 holds the real recorded data rather than a general narrative.
Tin's single biggest demand source, solder for electronics manufacturing, means its price history tends to track the broader ups and downs of the global electronics and semiconductor industry more closely than metals with a wider spread of end uses. Supply concentrated in a handful of countries — China, Indonesia, Myanmar and Peru — has also shaped how sharply the price can move when any one of them sees a disruption.
Tin has generally shown meaningful sensitivity to electronics-industry demand cycles, given how concentrated its use case is. That is a genuine structural feature worth understanding rather than a claim about any specific historical price level, which this page deliberately avoids stating.
Those uses are real and long-standing — bronze as a copper-tin alloy, and tin plating on steel for corrosion-resistant cans — but they represent a smaller share of total demand next to solder. The broader price trend is shaped mostly by the larger electronics-driven demand base.
History shows what has happened, not what will happen next, and this page deliberately avoids making that leap. It is useful for understanding how tin behaves in response to electronics-cycle demand and supply-side shifts, not for predicting a future number.
