Best tanks for farming credits in WoT

The biggest earners per battle right now are two Tier IX Premiums, the SPHT and the M-VII-Y. At Tier VIII the French SFAC 105 tank destroyer leads with an average of 67,942 credits net. These numbers come from Tomato.gg statistics for the 30 days up to November 4, 2026, on World of Tanks version 2.4.1.

Net means after shells, repairs and consumables. That’s the column to watch, because a screenshot showing 150k earned tells you nothing about what was left after the battle. Accounts with and without Premium are mixed here. The sample is small (about 6.6 million battles rather than the whole server) and probably leans toward above-average players, so a beginner will see lower amounts. The order of the tanks is unlikely to shift much, though.

Most profitable Tier VIII tanks

Only Premium tanks with at least 3,000 battles in the sample made the table. Without that cutoff, vehicles with a couple of hundred battles and a lucky number float to the top.

Tank	Class	Earned per battle	Net profit	Profit per minute
SFAC 105	TD	100,725	67,942	11,070
Panhard EBR 75 (FL 10)	Light	90,252	61,387	14,564
E 65 Zwilling	Heavy	110,683	61,298	12,464
Mars	Medium	101,808	60,023	10,758
Projekt ION	Heavy	112,186	59,410	10,965
Type 5 Ka-Ri	TD	98,866	58,435	10,270
XM57	TD	95,774	57,977	10,466
Husarz	TD	91,814	57,410	11,965
Škoda T 56	Heavy	105,168	57,398	10,835
SDP wz 66 Grom	TD	91,695	57,310	12,622

If you care about credits per hour rather than per battle, read the last column. The wheeled EBR 75 spends less time in each battle and only 7,145 credits on shells, so it beats everything per minute. Next comes the Czech Squall light tank (13,598 per minute, 51,778 per battle), with an even lower shell bill of 4,203.

The old-school credit makers look more modest in fresh numbers than they do in guides. The Chrysler K brings in 33,007, the T26E4 32,740 and the IS-6 31,697. Their battle counts are low, between 327 and 2,375, so treat this as a pointer and not a verdict, but they’re a long way from the leaders. The Progetto 46 (49,557) and Bourrasque (47,137) hold up better. The SU-130PM isn’t bad at 46,757 either, and it’s the most played tank on the EU server with 1.67 million battles in a month.

Tier IX earns even more

The usual advice is to farm at Tier VIII. That’s no longer quite true.

Tier IX tank	Class	Earned per battle	Net profit
SPHT	Heavy	142,818	83,225
M-VII-Y	Heavy	141,545	81,515
Serpente	Medium	153,443	75,967
Leox	Medium	121,697	75,541
Vz. 62 Jasan	Medium	122,345	73,779

On average the gap is small: Tier VIII Premiums make 50,025 and Tier IX Premiums 52,473. It’s the top machines that pull ahead, and their repairs cost about three times more. The SPHT pays 17,484 per battle against 5,590 for the SFAC 105, so a bad game at Tier IX hurts more.

Getting one is harder than reading a table. Of the Tier VIII top ten, the client files mark only the SFAC 105 (8,500 gold) and XM57 (8,200) as regularly on sale, and even then check the garage in your region. The rest turn up in offers, boxes and rewards, while the M-VII-Y arrived through a special Battle Pass chapter. The SFAC 105 was also sold in bundles, and the autumn offer ended on October 5.

Most comfortable Tier VIII tanks

The most profitable tank is rarely the nicest one to drive. That same SFAC 105 has 40 mm of frontal armor and punishes every mistake, and players win 1.09% less on it than they normally do.

So the filter here is different: profit of 45,000 or more and a positive win rate difference. That difference shows how far a tank’s win rate sits above the personal win rate of the people playing it. A plus means the tank is helping. The data is from the EU server over the same 30 days.

Tank	Class	Net profit	Win rate difference	Survival
Type 5 Ka-Ri	TD	58,435	+1.97%	33%
XM57	TD	57,977	+1.63%	32%
Škoda T 56	Heavy	57,398	+1.43%	28%
E 65 Zwilling	Heavy	61,298	+1.31%	25%
Stridsyxa	Medium	51,259	+1.87%	29%
BZ-176	Heavy	49,934	+2.92%	32%
Charioteer Nomad	TD	45,073	+1.74%	35%

For one tank that does everything, we’d take the Škoda T 56: strong profit, straightforward heavy gameplay and a 52.4% win rate. TD fans are better off with the XM57, especially since it’s easier to find. Just know it’s an assault vehicle with a 24 km/h top speed, so forget about sniping from a bush.

The BZ-176 is a case of its own. It wins 55.08% of its battles, the best figure among Tier VIII tanks with a decent battle count. But shells eat 37,297 per battle, more than anything else in this table. If you want wins, take it. If you want savings, look at the Ka-Ri first.

Mediums give you less choice: at 50 km/h, the Stridsyxa remains the handiest of those earning more than 50,000.

No Premium tank?

Researchable vehicles live on completely different numbers. On average they make about 7,000 at Tiers V to VII, 2,763 at Tier VIII and almost nothing at Tier IX (193). A typical Tier X battle loses 6,246, and Tier XI loses 12,514. That’s why grinding the top tiers calls for a separate money maker.

The best options that cost no real money:

Tank	Tier and class	Net profit
Hummel	VI, SPG	24,916
G.W. Panther	VII, SPG	20,267
Mitsu 108	V, heavy	17,375
Blesk	VIII, light	14,402
IS	VII, heavy	12,572
Progetto M40 mod. 65	X, medium	10,531

Low-tier artillery sits near the top for a simple reason: its shells and repairs are cheap. Among regular tanks the IS is the most pleasant pick, and the Progetto 65 is second only to the G.W. E 100 SPG among researchable Tier X vehicles.

What else moves the total

A Premium Account matters more than your choice of tank. On the SFAC 105, players with Premium earn 102,389 per battle and those without 51,522. Officially Premium gives +50% credits, so the rest is probably personal reserves and skill differences. Costs stay the same, though, which leaves 69,467 net against 22,848, or three times as much.

Your second lever is gold rounds and consumables. Among the table leaders, shells take 7,000 to 34,000 per battle and consumables another 8,000 to 17,000, while repairs are only 5,000 to 8,000. You can’t change the repair bill, but you can fire standard shells whenever they penetrate.

These numbers shift with every patch, especially when a tank gets buffed or nerfed. If you need the credits for a specific grind, see which tech tree lines to research in 2026–2027.