Building

For Buildings in Cookie Clicker Classic, see Building (Cookie Clicker Classic).

For Buildings in Cookie Clicker Beta, see Cookie Clicker Beta#Buildings.

Buildings are the foundations of Cookie Clicker. Buildings are items that gradually gain you more cookies for buying more buildings/upgrades. Each building has an individual CpS (cookies per second) and increase in price each time you buy one. Cookie Clicker started with 7 buildings and obtained an extra building in each of versions 0.125, 1.0, 1.036, 1.041 and 2. Currently it has 15 buildings to purchase and admire. Each building has 9 unique upgrades, except for cursors (which have 12) and Grandmas (which have 15). Also there are 13 Grandma type upgrades and 26 Synergy upgrades which affects two buildings at a time.

Each building's price is calculated with the following formula (without taking discount upgrades and auras in account), rounded up to the next integer:

$\text {Price} = \text {Base cost} \times 1.15 ^ {M-F}$

where M – number of that type of building currently owned;

F – number of that type of building you have for free (cursors and grandmas you get from Starter kit and Starter kitchen prestige upgrades.)

Or, equivalently:

$\text {Price of Building Number (N+1)} = \text {Price of Building Number N} \times 1.15$

For approximate calculations when one is not in the mood to use a calculator, this translates roughly to a doubling of price every 5 buildings, and a thousand increase every 49.

Buy 10:

$\text {Price of Buy 10} = \text {Price} \times 20.303718238$

Buy 100:

$\text {Price of Buy 100} = \text {Price} \times 7828749.671335188$

Therefore, the cumulative price for N buildings is calculated as a finite geometric series:

$\text {Cumulative price} = \frac { \text{Base cost} \times ( 1.15 ^ N-1 )}{0.15}$

If you already got some buildings (for example, if you have 200 Cursors and want to know how much you will spend to reach 240), you can edit a bit the previous formula and get :

$\text {Cumulative price} = \frac { \text{Base cost} \times ( 1.15 ^ b-1.15 ^ a )}{0.15}$

Where a is the number of buildings you have, and b is the number you wish to have.

When selling a building, you are refunded half of the building's current price (0.85 with Earth Shatterer aura). Note, that this means the refund is 0.575 (0.9775 with aura) times of the amount of cookies spent to buy it.

Abbreviations used in the table below:

N – Total number of buildings;

C – Number of Cursors;

G – Number of Grandmas;

Fr – Number of Farms;

M – Number of Mines;

Fc – Number of Factories;

B – Number of Banks;

T – Number of Temples;

W – Number of Wizard towers;

S – Number of Shipments;

AL – Number of Alchemy labs;

Po – Number of Portals;

TM – Number of Time machines;

AC – Number of Antimatter condensers;

Pr – Number of Prisms;

CH – Number of Chancemakers;

Name	Icon	Base Cost	Base CpS	Max CpS per Building	MegaCpS per cookie (Initial, higher is better)	Payoff Time (Initial, lower is better)	Upgrades Available	Description
Cursor		15	0.1	0.8 + 5.556 million × (N - C)	6,666.7	150 seconds, 2.5 minutes	12 unique	Autoclicks once every 10 seconds.
Grandma		100	1	(1 + G/25 + Po/20) × (1 + (N - G)/100) × 67.109 million	10,000	100 seconds, 1.7 minutes	15 unique + 13 grandma types	A nice grandma to bake more cookies.
Farm		1,100	8	4,096 × (1 + TM/20) × (1 + T/20) × (1 + W/20) × (1 + Po/20) × (1 + G/100)	7,272.7	138 seconds, 2.3 minutes	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Grows cookie plants from cookie seeds.
Mine		12,000	47	24,064 × (1 + W/20) × (1 + S/20)2 × (1 + AL/20) × (1+CH/20) × (1 + G/200)	3,917	255 seconds, 4.3 minutes	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 5 synergies	Mines out cookie dough and chocolate chips.
Factory		130,000	260	133,120 × (1 + AC/20) × (1 + TM/20) × (1 + B/20) × (1 + S/20) × (1 + G/300)	2,000	500 seconds, 8.3 minutes	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Produces large quantities of cookies.
Bank		1.4 million	1,400	716,800× (1 + Po/20) × (1 + Fc/1,000) × (1 + AL/20) × (1 + AC/20) × (1 + G/400)	1,000	1,000 seconds, 16.7 minutes	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Generates cookies from interest.
Temple		20 million	7,800	3.994 million × (1 + Fr/1,000) × (1 + Po/20) × (1 + AC/20) × (1 + Pr/20) × (1 + G/500)	390	2,564 seconds, 42.7 minutes	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Full of precious, ancient chocolate.
Wizard Tower		330 million	44,000	22.528 million × (1 + M/1,000) × (1 + AL/20) × (1 + Fr/1,000) × (1 + Pr/20) × (1 + G/600)	133.3	7,500 seconds, 125 minutes, 2.1 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Summons cookies with magic spells.
Shipment		5.1 billion	260,000	133.12 million × (1 + M/1,000)2 × (1 + Fc/1,000) × (1 + TM/20) × (1 + G/700)	51	19,615 seconds, 326.9 minutes, 5.4 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Brings in fresh cookies from the cookie planet.
Alchemy Lab		75 billion	1.6 million	819.2 million × (1 + W/1,000) × (1 + M/1,000) × (1 + B/1,000) × (1 + AC/20) × (1 + G/800)	21.3	46,875 seconds, 781.3 minutes, 13 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Turns gold into cookies!
Portal		1 trillion	10 million	5.12 billion × (1 + B/1,000) × (1 + T/1,000) × (1 + Fr/1,000) × (1 + Pr/20) × (1 + G/900)	10	100,000 seconds, 1,666.7 minutes, 27.8 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Opens a door to the cookieverse.
Time Machine		14 trillion	65 million	33.28 billion × (1 + Fr/1,000) × (1 + Fc/1,000) × (1 + S/1,000) × (1 + Pr/20) × (1 + G/1,000)	4.6	215,385 seconds, 3,589.7 minutes, 59.8 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Brings cookies from the past, before they were even eaten.
Antimatter Condenser		170 trillion	430 million	220.16 billion × (1 + Fc/1,000) × (1 + T/1,000) × (1 + B/1,000) × (1 + AL/1,000) × (1 + CH/20) × (1 + G/1,100)	2.5	395,348 seconds, 6,589.1 minutes, 109.8 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 5 synergies	Condenses the antimatter in the universe into cookies.
Prism		2.1 quadrillion	2.9 billion	1.4848 trillion × (1 + Po/1,000) × (1 + TM/1,000) × (1 + W/1,000) × (1 + T/1,000) × (1 + G/1,200)	1.4	724,137 seconds, 12,067 minutes, 201.1 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 4 synergies	Converts light itself into cookies.
Chancemaker		26 quadrillion	21 Billion	10.752 trillion× (1 + M/1,000) × (1 + AC/1,000) × (1 + G/1,300)		1,238,095 seconds, 20,634 minutes, 343.9 hours	9 unique + 1 grandma type + 2 synergies	Generates cookies out of thin air through sheer luck.

The following table shows approximately optimal distributions of buildings with all available upgrades bought, at several different levels, based on the marginal increase in CpS divided by the price of the building. (This does not take into account putting building upgrades in a permanent slot; seasonal upgrades; and assumes the One Mind phase of the Grandmapocalypse - in particular, the # of grandmas is underestimated compared to full Christmas upgrades & full Grandmapocylpse playstyles.)

Name	Without Synergies						With Synergies Vol. I						With Synergies Vol. II
Cursor	213	272	335	415	461	507	213	271	334	413	459	504	213	271	331	409	454	498
Grandma	266	319	372	424	475	526	266	319	372	424	475	526	266	319	373	425	476	527
Farm	168	226	289	368	414	459	216	265	318	373	423	473	216	267	334	388	439	490
Mine	152	209	272	351	397	442	231	286	338	390	441	492	231	286	336	388	438	489
Factory	135	200	255	334	380	425	200	249	300	348	400	451	200	244	313	366	419	471
Bank	121	176	238	317	363	408	178	226	279	332	383	434	178	227	300	350	401	453
Temple	108	159	219	300	344	389	135	183	237	300	346	394	135	187	280	333	385	436
Wizard Tower	100	150	202	278	324	369	150	200	252	304	355	406	150	200	254	306	357	407
Shipment	86	132	185	259	305	350	110	160	214	267	317	367	110	174	232	284	334	384
Alchemy Lab	80	125	176	250	286	333	100	150	200	251	300	347	100	152	219	272	324	376
Portal	74	119	169	225	273	322	76	122	173	226	276	325	76	124	200	250	301	351
Time Machine	68	113	164	215	264	314	69	115	165	216	267	316	69	115	183	235	286	337
Antimatter	64	109	159	209	259	309	65	110	161	211	261	311	65	110	179	230	281	332
Prism	59	105	155	205	255	305	59	104	154	204	254	304	59	104	157	207	257	307
Chancemaker	50	100	150	200	250	300	50	100	150	200	250	300	50	100	150	200	250	300

Once all upgrades have been bought, approximately 40% of your production will come from Chancemakers, 40% from Antimatter Condensers, 10% from Prisms, 5% from Time Machines, and the other buildings are mostly useful for their synergistic effects on the production of the big buildings.

Trivia

• Purchasing 300 of every building would have a cumulative cost of 24.178 decillion cookies.
• Purchasing 500 Cursors for the Thumbs, phalanges, metacarpals achievement would have a cumulative cost of 223.316 nonillion cookies (55.2 nonillion if you get Starter kit).
• As the prices rise the more of a building you own, the price will eventually reach a number too large to process, and the price will say Infinity and you cannot buy more unless you cheat to lower the prices or obtain more buildings etc. With taking all discounts and free buildings in account, in the Live version, the maximum numbers are 5,070 Cursors, 5,051 Grandmas, 5,029 Farms, 5,012 Mines, 4,995 Factories, 4,978 Banks, 4,959 Temples, 4,939 Wizard towers, 4,919 Shipments, 4,900 Alchemy labs, 4,881 Portals, 4,862 Time Machines, 4,845 Antimatter condensers, 4,827 Prisms, and 4,808 Chancemakers. This roughly corresponds to 1.798×10³⁰⁸, the max number of Double-precision floating-point format.
• If you've built the amount of buildings above, in total, with all upgrades, your buildings will give you: 356.65 billion from cursors, 4.824 trillion from grandmas, 389.511 trillion from farms, 1.175 quadrillion from mines, 4.35 quadrillion from factories, 429.355 trillion from banks, 1.931 quadrillion from temples, 229.25 trillion from wizard towers, 28.924 trillion from shipments, 155.54 trillion from alchemy labs, 881.059 trillion from portals, 5.22 quadrillion from time machines, 775.59 trillion from antimatter condensers, and 4.718 quadrillion from prisms, for a grand total of 20.289 quadrillion times your multiplier.
• A spreadsheet with the cost of every building up until the 400th purchase can be found here (outdated).

Buildings
Cursor		Grandma		Farm		Mine		Factory
Bank		Temple		Wizard Tower		Shipment		Alchemy Lab
Portal		Time Machine		Antimatter Condenser		Prism		Chancemaker
Fractal Engine		Javascript Console		Idleverse		Cortex Baker		You
Buildings overview