Rainbow vs Golden: which earns more?
Mutations you can hatch
| Mutation | Multiplier | Chance | Beats the next pet up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow | ×3.5 | 1% | 190 / 190 |
| Golden | ×2.5 | 4% | 190 / 190 |
| Silver | ×1.2 | 6% | 135 / 190 |
| None | ×1 | 89% | – |
The average multiplier per normal hatch works out to ×1.097. "Beats the next pet up" counts, across all 191 pets sorted by income, how often a mutated pet out-earns the plain pet one rank above it: 190 times for Rainbow, 190 for Golden.
How many ranks a Rainbow climbs
Where a Rainbow pet lands among plain pets. "Ranks climbed" is the distance to the best plain pet it still out-earns.
| Rainbow pet | Rainbow income | Best plain pet it beats | Its income | Ranks climbed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | $3.5/s | Frog | $3/s | 2 |
| Bear | $840/s | Walrus | $600/s | 7 |
| Scorpio | $35K/s | Cosmic Gecko | $30K/s | 12 |
| Salamander | $259K/s | Flame Sprite | $225K/s | 13 |
| Ventinal | $2.05M/s | Toxic Hedgehog | $1.75M/s | 13 |
| Giant Sloth | $14M/s | Citadel Snail #007 | $12.5M/s | 9 |
| Holy Peacock | $87.5M/s | Phoenix | $85M/s | 11 |
| Mecha Froggo | $543M/s | Krakenoid | $500M/s | 16 |
| Mecha Chompa | $2.1B/s | Dreadscale | $2B/s | 22 |
| Kitsune | $6.3B/s | ArchAngel | $5B/s | 15 |
Compared with size
Size multiplies separately from mutation. An unmutated pet at about 7.6× its base weight reaches Rainbow's ×3.5; about 4.4× reaches Golden's ×2.5. A big plain pet often out-earns a small Rainbow one. How size changes income
Questions
Is Rainbow better than Golden?
On the same pet, Rainbow earns 1.40× as much: ×3.5 versus ×2.5.
What are the odds of hatching a Rainbow?
Using the roll weights listed on the wiki, 1%. Golden is 4%, Silver 6%, and 89% of hatches have no colour mutation.
How big does a pet need to be to match a Rainbow?
An unmutated pet at about 7.6× its base weight gets the same ×3.5. Matching Golden takes about 4.4×.
Source: Module:IncomeCalculator/Data (rev 2021, Sep 30, 2026), Mutations (rev 1822, Sep 20, 2026), Pets and Eggs (rev 2161, Oct 14, 2026), MediaWiki:Common.js (rev 1790, Sep 20, 2026) · Steal An Egg community wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0. Numbers restructured into tables.