All 20 Cookie Clicker Buildings in Order: Prices, CpS and Which to Buy

Buildings are the backbone of your cookie empire. From humble Cursors to world-bending Prisms, each structure plays a unique role in your production chain. This guide ranks and explains every building in Cookie Clicker to help you invest your cookies wisely.

All 20 Cookie Clicker buildings in order

This is the full list in the order the store shows them, with each building’s base price (the price of the first one) and base CpS (cookies per second for one building before any upgrades). Numbers come from the game’s own code, version 2.058. Every copy you already own makes the next one 15% more expensive.

Minigames open when you spend a sugar lump to raise that building to level 1. After the Alchemy lab comes the Portal (1 trillion cookies), and the last building, You, costs 540 septillion.

What each building does

1. Cursor — The Humble Beginning

Base CpS: 0.1 | First available at: 15 cookies

The Cursor is your first building and, paradoxically, one of the most powerful in late-game. Later upgrades (like Thousand fingers and Million fingers) scale Cursor CpS based on the number of other buildings you own. With enough buildings, Cursors can produce thousands of CpS each.

2. Grandma — Everyone’s Favorite

Base CpS: 1 | First available at: 100 cookies

Grandmas are more than producers — they’re the key to the Grandmapocalypse, a late-game event that unlocks powerful Wrinklers and unique upgrades. Early on, focus on other buildings; invest in 1 Grandma to unlock Grandma upgrades, then let them scale later.

3. Farm

Base CpS: 8 | First available at: 1,100 cookies

Farms unlock the Garden minigame, one of the most complex and rewarding systems in the game. Cross-breeding plants produces effects that passively boost your CpS, click power, or Golden Cookie frequency. Always worth investing in for the minigame access.

4. Mine

Base CpS: 47 | First available at: 12,000 cookies

A solid mid-early building. No special mechanics, but its CpS scales efficiently. Buy mines as needed to maintain your upgrade tree.

5. Factory

Base CpS: 260 | First available at: 130,000 cookies

Factories introduce industrial-scale production. Their upgrades, like “Sturdier conveyor belts”, provide clean multipliers. Keep factories well-upgraded throughout your run.

6. Bank

Base CpS: 1,400 | First available at: 1.4M cookies

Banks unlock the Stock Market minigame. With careful trading, you can earn massive cookie bonuses. Bank levels also raise the resting value of every stock.

7. Temple

Base CpS: 7,800 | First available at: 20M cookies

Temples unlock the Pantheon minigame — one of the game’s most impactful systems. Slotting the right gods (Mokalsium for milk bonus, Vomitrax for Golden Cookies, etc.) can dramatically boost your overall CpS and cookie production. Always prioritize unlocking Temples.

8. Wizard Tower

Base CpS: 44,000 | First available at: 330M cookies

Unlocks the Grimoire minigame with spells you can cast at the cost of magic. The most important spell: Force the Hand of Fate — it summons a Golden Cookie, letting you chain Frenzy + Click Frenzy for massive cookie explosions.

9. Shipment

Base CpS: 260,000 | First available at: 5.1B cookies

Shipments import cookie ingredients from across the galaxy. Strong CpS for their cost, and their upgrades scale well.

10. Alchemy Lab

Base CpS: 1.6M | First available at: 75B cookies

Gold into cookies. Alchemy Labs are a significant investment but provide excellent returns, especially with upgrades like “Antimony” and “Essence of Dough.”

11–20. Portal, Time Machine, Antimatter Condenser, Prism, Chancemaker, Fractal Engine, Javascript Console, Idleverse, Cortex Baker, You

The late-game buildings have no minigame of their own. From Portal to Fractal engine each one costs about 12 to 14 times the one before it; from the Javascript console on the jump is 158 to 284 times. Base CpS grows about 6 to 8 times per step. What the game says about each:

• Portal (1 trillion cookies, 10 million CpS): Opens a door to the Cookieverse.
• Time machine (14 trillion cookies, 65 million CpS): Brings cookies from the past, before they were even eaten.
• Antimatter condenser (170 trillion cookies, 430 million CpS): Condenses the antimatter in the universe into cookies.
• Prism (2.1 quadrillion cookies, 2.9 billion CpS): Converts light itself into cookies.
• Chancemaker (26 quadrillion cookies, 21 billion CpS): Generates cookies out of thin air through sheer luck.
• Fractal engine (310 quadrillion cookies, 150 billion CpS): Turns cookies into even more cookies.
• Javascript console (71 quintillion cookies, 1.1 trillion CpS): Creates cookies from the very code this game was written in.
• Idleverse (12 sextillion cookies, 8.3 trillion CpS): Hijacks the production of countless other idle universes running alongside ours.
• Cortex baker (1.9 septillion cookies, 64 trillion CpS): Planet-sized artificial brains that dream cookies into existence.
• You (540 septillion cookies, 510 trillion CpS): Clones of you, on the idea that more of you could make even more cookies.

Which Buildings to Prioritize?

As a general rule:

1. Always buy a building when its cost is roughly 1% or less of your current bank
2. Prioritize unlocking minigames (Farm → Bank → Temple → Wizard Tower) for compound bonuses
3. Don’t neglect cheaper buildings — their Grandma synergy upgrades add multiplicative bonuses to all Grandmas
4. In late game, Prism and Fractal Engine are often the highest CpS-per-cookie-spent buildings

Conclusion

Every building in Cookie Clicker serves a purpose, and the smart player knows when to diversify versus when to double-down. Focus on unlocking minigames early, upgrade often, and your cookie empire will grow beyond your wildest baking dreams.