Silver Price Per Kilo

Reviewed by the Silver Per Ounce Editorial Team · Updated October 7, 2026

$1,921.33 per kilogram of pure silver

$59.76 per troy ounce · $1.92 per gram

Silver spot $59.76/oz · updated October 7, 2026

Quick answer: A kilogram of pure silver is worth $1,921.33 at today's spot. It holds 32.1507 troy ounces, so the figure is the current silver price per ounce, $59.76, multiplied by 32.1507. A kilo bar sells for more than that, because a dealer adds a premium.

Start with the weight you actually hold

Suppose a seller lists a one-kilogram silver bar and you want to know whether the price makes sense. Before you look at any dollar figure, convert the weight into the unit the market uses.

Spot silver is quoted per troy ounce. A kilogram is a metric weight, so the two do not line up neatly. One kilogram equals 32.1507 troy ounces, a little more than 32 and a half. Whichever way you do the sum, that conversion factor is the only constant you need.

With the live price, the sum looks like this:

1. Take the ounce price: $59.76.
2. Multiply by the troy ounces in a kilogram: 32.1507.
3. The product is the melt value of one kilogram of pure silver: $1,921.33.

You can reach the same figure through grams. One kilogram is a thousand grams, and the silver price per gram is $1.92, so a thousand of them give the same $1,921.33. Two routes, one answer. If your two routes disagree, one of your inputs is out of date.

This page only uses troy ounces and metric weights. We leave pounds out on purpose: mixing a pound into a silver calculation is a quick way to confuse the everyday ounce with the troy ounce, which is the mistake the page on troy ounce vs. ounce explains.

Kilo values, side by side

The table lists the kilo-scale sizes people ask about, with each bar's weight in troy ounces and its melt value at the live price. It is rebuilt from the same price as the number at the top.

Two things stand out. A one-kilogram bar holds 32.1507 troy ounces, so it will not match a bar sold by the ounce. And a 1,000-ounce bar is a little over 31 kilograms, so it is more than thirty times the size of a kilo bar, not a thousand times.

The five-kilogram row is the same multiplication, simply five times over.

Bar sizes and where each one shows up

Silver bars come in a range of sizes, and the size tends to follow the buyer.

1,000 ounces. This is the large bar of the futures market. The COMEX silver contract covers 5,000 troy ounces of .999 silver and can be settled with five 1,000-ounce bars. Per the exchange's rulebook as quoted in public summaries, the price is stated in dollars and cents per troy ounce. A bar this size is a wholesale item, not something a household buys.

100 ounces. A dealer such as Augusta Precious Metals lists a 100-ounce silver bar alongside its 1-ounce and 10-ounce bars, which tells you these sizes are sold to private buyers. We did not find a published source naming a single "standard" size for retail buyers, so we won't claim one.

10 ounces. A bar of about 311 grams. It sits between a coin and a large bar. We state no premium for it, since premiums change by dealer and by day.

1 kilogram. A metric bar, a little over 32 troy ounces. It is a natural size where buyers think in metric weights. We did not locate a source on which markets treat it as the standard, so treat it as one size among several.

If you wonder why a larger bar does not simply cost spot times its weight, the answer is the dealer's premium and spread. Silver spot price vs. retail price walks through how an ask price is built and how to compare two quotes.

How a kilo bar's price relates to the ounce price

The melt value moves with the ounce price in lockstep. If silver rises by a given percentage in the next hour, the kilo melt value rises by the same percentage, because the kilo figure is the ounce figure times a fixed number.

The price on a dealer's page for the bar is a different thing. It begins at the melt value and adds the dealer's premium, which can shift independently of spot. So the gap between a bar's listed price and $1,921.33 is the part you are paying for the bar being in your hands rather than as a number on a screen.

A useful habit is to compute the melt value yourself, then ask the seller for the premium in dollars per ounce. For the same question at coin scale, see how much 1 oz of silver is worth, which separates what a dealer charges from what a dealer pays.

Checking a kilo quote in four steps

1. Confirm the weight is stated in kilograms or troy ounces, and that purity is stated, with .999 the usual mark for bullion bars.
2. Multiply the weight in kilograms by $1,921.33 for the melt value.
3. Subtract the melt value from the quoted price, then divide by the weight in troy ounces to get the premium per ounce.
4. Compare that per-ounce premium across at least two sellers, quoted at the same moment.

Step three is where most people stop short. A total price looks neutral until you break it into a per-ounce figure you can set next to another seller's.

What this can't tell you

What this can't tell you: what any particular kilo bar will cost you, what a dealer would pay you for it, or whether the price is high or low next month. The number here is a market reference for pure metal. To see how buyers go about purchasing, read where to buy silver.

Frequently asked questions

Next steps

Keep the live ounce price open while you work, since every figure on this page is derived from it. If you are weighing the units, the live ounce price is the anchor and everything else is arithmetic.

Sources and further reading

• CFTC: Customer Advisory on buying physical metals
• LBMA: precious metal prices
• NIST: Handbook 44 unit tables

Keep reading

• silver price per gram: the same price scaled down to a single gram.
• how much 1 oz of silver is worth: the ounce view, including dealer buy and sell prices.
• where to buy silver: how buying works and what to ask a seller.

Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (SI=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated 2026-10-07. Silver is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.