What it is, how you get it, and how sprites are priced.
Sprite Dust is the currency you spend to summon a Fortnite sprite you have unlocked into a match. Extract a sprite once and it is yours for good; from then on, bringing it into a game costs Dust — which makes Dust the thing that decides how often you can actually run the sprites you have collected.
This page covers how Dust is earned and how sprites are priced. The price of each individual sprite and variant is shown on its card in the Sprites Vault tracker, which also totals the Dust value of everything you're still missing as you mark sprites off.
Dust comes from duplicates. Every time you pick up a sprite you already own, it is converted into Dust instead of sitting in your collection twice. That is why Dust accumulates fastest once you already have the common sprites — the more of the catalog you hold, the more often a pickup turns into currency rather than a new entry.
The practical consequence: don't skip picking up sprites you already have. A duplicate Mythic is worth substantially more Dust than a duplicate Rare, and late in a collection duplicates are the only meaningful source of income.
Every sprite variant has its own summon cost, set by Epic in the game data. Three things shape it:
The three starter sprites — Water, Earth and Fire in their Normal form — are the cheapest things in the game by a wide margin, and a couple of sprites are priced above their tier (Peely's Normal, for one). Because the numbers are per sprite and change with the season, this page does not print a price table that would be wrong the moment the next season lands: the tracker shows the current cost on every card, and it reads the same figures the game does.
Epic Games does not publish Sprite Dust costs, but the game client carries them: every sprite variant's summon cost is in the live build's data files, and Sprites Vault reads it from there on every game update rather than estimating it. Community price lists, including the one this site used to reproduce, were reconstructed from in-game observation and disagreed with the game's own table on most variants.
If you spot a price in the tracker that does not match what the game charges you, tell us — corrections are welcome.
Sprites Vault shows your collection as a grid of all 150 released variants, Chapter 7 Season 4 included. Mark what you own, and the tracker keeps a running total of your progress and what remains. It works in a browser with no account, as a Telegram Mini App, and as a Discord Activity.