Russian Blue Price: What the Named Sellers Publish
US catteries run flat $2,500-4,000 with an itemised $4,700 ceiling, UK registered listings sit £900-1,750, and two named catteries decline to price at all. Read August 2026.
Published August 21, 2026 4 min read
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Read 17 August 2026 from the sellers' own pages. Every figure is a named cattery or a dated live sample, market by market, never a blend.
United States: flat rates, and one itemised bill
Three named catteries publish flat, untired prices: $2,500 (Russian Blue Pomskies, Missouri), $3,450 (Royal Blues, Dayton, a figure we screenshot-confirmed after the page's styling split it in two), and $4,000 (UBetCat). Above them sits the market's most transparent page.
Archangel Cat, a nationwide breeder, itemises a $250 reservation, a $4,450 balance at six weeks (total $4,700) and an optional $925 pick-of-the-litter add-on (ceiling $5,625), with ten numbered inclusions from the TICA slip to 30 days of insurance. Budget guidance from two further named catteries runs $3,000-3,500 and $1,200-2,500. The latter is the lowest figure found, and the only one naming no registry. No US registry publishes a price, re-checked directly at both TICA and .
United Kingdom: separate the registered from the rest
The live Pets4Homes sample (first 24 of 85 listings read) spans £50 to £1,750, and the spread is an artifact. The bottom is crosses and mixes by the sellers' own titles (one £500 "Russian Blue" is a mislabelled Nebelung). Restrict to listings naming or , and the real range is £900-1,750.
The site's own FAQ answers £1,800-2,300, ABOVE its own live registered ceiling: the opposite direction from the same site's Maine Coon inversion, and we print both figures as what they are. Six named UK catteries from the breed club's own list publish no price at all. In Britain this breed prices by enquiry, and the marketplace is where numbers live.
Canada: three postures in one city
Toronto alone shows the whole market. Royal Sterling states a tiered $3,500 (male) / $3,800 (female). Kittica states a flat C$3,200 with everything included, down to the microchip. And Emerald Snow, triple-registered, answers a page literally titled "HOW MUCH FOR A KITTEN???" with an essay on what responsible breeding costs and NO dollar figure anywhere: a deliberate ethics posture, worth naming rather than treating as a gap. The live Kijiji sample (40 of 62 read) clusters $150-2,200, with its $50 outlier being a 12-year-old rehomed adult that belongs in no kitten range.
Australia: two catteries, one shared sentence
Two named NSW catteries price their own kittens at A$2,500 (Terapiya) and A$3,000 (Anou, "due to inflationary pressure"). Both ALSO carry a near-identical guidance sentence ("a genuine Russian kitten should cost between...") with different numbers. That reads as one shared upstream source quoted twice. So we count the guidance once, and the two catteries' own prices as the two real data points. A third breeder, listed via a multi-breed cattery's page, prices at A$1,500 (and A$1,200 for Russian White boys, the one color-priced line in the whole file). No GST-exclusive pricing appears anywhere: small catteries under the registration threshold, most plausibly.
The pattern to keep
No registry in any market publishes a price. Flat, color-blind pricing is the named-cattery norm (the single exception prices a COLOUR the US registries do not even recognize; the colors page explains that split). And two named catteries, in two countries, decline to publish any price at all. With this breed, price-on-enquiry is often a statement of ethics, not evasion.
Four markets on one card (named sources, 17/08/2026)
| Market | Published figures | Shape of the market |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $2,500-4,000 flat at 3 named catteries; itemised ceiling $4,700-5,625 | Flat rates; one fully itemised bill |
| United Kingdom | Registered listings £900-1,750 | The site FAQ (£1,800-2,300) sits ABOVE its own live sample |
| Canada | CA$3,200-3,800 at named Toronto catteries | One triple-registered cattery declines to price at all |
| Australia | A$2,500-3,000, the two priced NSW catteries | Their shared guidance sentence counted as ONE source |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does a Russian Blue cost?
From named sources, August 2026: US $2,500-4,000 flat at named catteries (itemised ceiling $4,700-5,625); UK registered listings £900-1,750 (the site FAQ's £1,800-2,300 sits above its own live sample); Canada C$3,200-3,800 at named Toronto catteries; Australia A$2,500-3,000 at the two priced NSW catteries.
Why do some Russian Blue catteries refuse to publish prices?
Two named catteries (one UK, one Canadian) decline explicitly, and the Canadian one answers its own "how much" page with an essay on breeding costs instead: a deliberate screening posture. Expect price-on-enquiry from clubs' breeder lists, and get the figure in writing.
Are cheap Russian Blue kittens real?
Usually crosses: the UK live sample's £50-500 tier is dominated by seller-labeled mixes, and one listing was a different breed entirely. A registry name in the listing is the honest filter.
Does color change the price?
Almost never: flat pricing rules the named catteries. The one exception found prices Russian WHITE kittens LOWER, and white is only a recognized Russian color in the UK and Australia anyway.
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Our sources
- Royal Blues Cattery
- Archangel Cat pricing
- UBetCat
- Russian Blue Pomskies
- Pets4Homes Russian Blue listings
- Russian Blue Breeders' Association kitten notes
- UK pedigree breeders list
- Royal Sterling (Toronto) available kittens
- Kittica (Toronto) FAQ
- Emerald Snow price and policy page
- Terapiya Cattery (NSW)
- Anou Russian Cats (NSW)
- TICA Russian Blue breed page
- CFA Russian Blue breed page
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