Prices in Argentina 🇦🇷

In Argentina, coca-cola costs $0.71, mobile data costs $1.11 and gasoline costs $1.22. That is 15 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in ARS, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Argentina is the hardest country in the game to price. Years of high inflation and a gap between official and parallel exchange rates mean a peso figure can be weeks out of date, and converting it to dollars gives very different answers depending on which rate you use. Read the Argentine numbers as the roughest in the table. The tax layer is real but secondary to that: IVA runs at 21%, with many basic foods at a reduced 10.5%, and neither rate is what moves an Argentine price from one month to the next. When a currency loses a large fraction of its dollar value inside a year, every other explanation for a price becomes a rounding error.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$5.53	8,000 ARS	1.6 h
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$0.71	750 ARS	12 min
Cappuccino	$3.53	5,254.24 ARS	61 min
Milk (1 litre)	$1.38	2,054.07 ARS	24 min
Eggs (dozen)	$2.66	3,959.29 ARS	46 min
Apples (1 kg)	$2.47	3,676.48 ARS	42 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$1.22	1,815.91 ARS	21 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.55	2,321.26 ARS	27 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$10.30	15,415 ARS	2.9 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$2.20	3,348.5 ARS	38 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$3.13	2,910 ARS	54 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.50	1,395.35 ARS	26 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$17.20	16,000 ARS	4.9 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$1.11	—	19 min
A day's healthy diet	$2.48	3,079.92 ARS	43 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Argentina compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Argentina is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 10th out of 42 countries at $1.50, against a global median of $1.00.

It is relatively cheapest for electricity (100 kWh) at $10.30, which is 35th of 48, only 13 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 4.9 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Argentina: 21% IVA. Ordinary groceries: many basic foods at a reduced 10.5%. Where these come from.

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Argentina prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Argentina?

Pricele publishes 15 everyday prices for Argentina, each from a named source. Coca-Cola $0.71, Mobile data $1.11, Gasoline $1.22. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Argentina?

Argentina uses the ARS. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Argentina list?

Of the 15 items priced for Argentina, the cheapest is Coca-Cola at $0.71 and the most expensive is Spirits at $17.20. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Argentina prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Burger Parity, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Argentina.