Trade Price in GTA Online: How Vehicle Discounts Unlock

A trade price is a lower price for one specific vehicle on an in-game dealer website. It stays locked until you finish a task tied to that car. The term belongs to GTA Online, not to the GTA V story mode.

There is no single rule behind it. Each update ties its own cars to its own activity, so the fastest way to understand a locked trade price is to ask which update the vehicle came from. The state below is the one on 2 November 2026, when the most recent content update is The Kortz Center Heist (14 July 2026) and GTA VI is listed by Rockstar for 19 November 2026.

What unlocks a trade price

Activity	What it unlocks	Where you buy
Special Vehicle Work (SecuroServ office)	The special vehicle used in that mission	Warstock Cache & Carry
Mobile Operations	The weaponized vehicle of that mission	Warstock Cache & Carry
LS Car Meet reputation	A trade price every five levels	Car dealer websites
Arena War sponsorship tiers	A trade price on an Arena War vehicle	Arena War website
Dispatch Work	One of seven law enforcement vehicles per mission	Vehicle websites
Arms Trafficking	Duster 300-H and Ratel	Elitás Travel, Southern San Andreas Super Autos

Business-linked unlocks

Special Vehicle Work missions are started from the SecuroServ computer in your office. They unlock at Rank 1, but each mission opens only after you finish a set number of Vehicle Cargo missions, and at least 32 are needed to open all of them. After a mission, the matching special vehicle is offered on Warstock at the SecuroServ trade price. These vehicles are delivered to the Underground Garage, and a destroyed one is replaced there.

Mobile Operations work the same way for weaponized vehicles. The difference is storage: a Mobile Operations vehicle is a personal vehicle, so it needs a garage slot, and any version with missiles has limited capacity.

Reputation and sponsorship unlocks

The LS Car Meet reputation track has 1,000 levels. The Euros trade price comes with membership at level 1, and from level 5 a trade price unlocks every five levels, drawn at random from a fixed list of Tuners cars (eight at levels 5 to 40, seven more at 45 to 75). Later cars such as the Postlude and the Kanjo SJ (The Criminal Enterprises) were added after the others. After level 100 every trade price is open, and the track switches to a single-use 10% voucher for Legendary Motorsport or Southern San Andreas Super Autos at every fifth level, valid for one in-game day (48 real minutes). For the track itself see the LS Car Meet reputation level section.

Arena War uses sponsorship tiers instead. Each tier gives a reward picked at random, from RP and clothing to discounts on modifications and trade prices on arena vehicles. Dispatch Work pays $25,000 and 500 RP per mission and also opens one trade price among seven law enforcement vehicles from the Bottom Dollar Bounties and Agents of Sabotage updates.

Odd cases

• Arms Trafficking: the Duster 300-H price opens after you accept Oscar's offer to deliver the plane to the McKenzie Field hangar, and the Ratel price opens once the weapons delivery mission is done.
• DJ requests: helping bring Moodymann back to the Music Locker as a VIP, CEO or MC President opens the Itali RSX trade price ($2,598,750 instead of $3,465,000) at Legendary Motorsport. Finishing all of Keinemusik's requests gives a free Weevil and opens its trade price ($652,500 instead of $870,000) at Southern San Andreas Super Autos.

Common mistakes

• Assuming the LS Car Meet unlocks arrive in a fixed order. From level 5 the wiki describes a random draw, so two players at the same level can hold different prices.
• Buying a Mobile Operations vehicle with no free garage space.
• Treating a weekly sale and a trade price as the same thing. A sale is a time-limited event discount; a trade price is permanent once unlocked.
• Mixing up the two kinds of Car Meet reward after level 100: the 10% vouchers are single-use and expire after 48 real minutes, while the trade prices stay unlocked.

Related terms

• Vehicles and weapons glossary: reputation levels, Hao's Special Works and turbo tuning.
• Businesses, missions and locations glossary: where the SecuroServ work happens.
• Arcadius Business Center: an office that gives access to Special Vehicle Work.
• GTA Online vehicle cargo guide: the cargo missions that gate Special Vehicle Work.

FAQ

Is a trade price the same as a discount code?

No. It is a vehicle-specific price that unlocks once you finish a given activity. It has no code, and you do not enter anything.

Does the trade price expire?

The sources checked do not describe an expiry for an unlocked trade price, so treat it as permanent. Time-limited discounts are a separate thing, run as weekly event sales.

Do trade prices exist in GTA V story mode?

The sources checked tie them to GTA Online activities and its dealer websites, so the story mode does not use them.

What does the LS Car Meet give at level 1?

The Euros trade price arrives immediately with the membership, before any levelling.