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Plugin Boutique sales chart
The best-selling VST plugins right now
What Plugin Boutique's customers are buying most, with live prices and our scores where we have reviewed one. A popularity chart, not our recommendation.
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Bestsellers
05 / STORE RANK 02 
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−71%
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−34%
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−95%
The store's own order, across every customer it has. Positions are the ones we found when we last checked the chart, on 22 August 2026; prices and discounts above update on their own. A gap in the numbering is a product the store does not publish enough about for us to link it honestly.
- 14
- Products listed
- 10
- On sale right now
- 51%
- Median discount
- 5
- Reviewed by us
What the sales chart actually tells you
It is largely a sale rack. 10 of the 14 products here are discounted right now, at a median of 51% off, and the deepest cut is 95%. A high position is partly a statement about the product and partly a statement about what it costs this week, so read the chart alongside the current plugin deals rather than as a separate thing.
Popular and good are different questions. Across the 5 products here we have assessed ourselves, our scores run from 6.9 to 8.4. A sales rank has no opinion about whether something is any good, and that spread is the clearest demonstration of it. Where a card carries a score, the review that earned it is one click away.
It is not a list for orchestral or cinematic work. What sells hardest at a general plugin store is synths, mixing tools and effects. If you came looking for strings, choirs or world instruments, the bestseller chart is the wrong place to start — orchestral libraries, cinematic instruments and world instruments are where our own testing goes deepest.
Featured by the store
13 / PROMOTEDNot a ranking. These are the products Plugin Boutique chose to put on its homepage, which is merchandising — placements get rotated, negotiated and paid for, and none of that measures how well anything sells. They are here because it is still a real fact about the shop, and because most of what we have reviewed on this page sits in this list rather than in the chart above.
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Looking for a recommendation instead?
This page reports what a shop is selling. Our own picks are in the roundups, where every product is scored on tested criteria and a discount never earns anything a place — or the deals page, if what you want is everything currently discounted that we have actually reviewed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best-selling VST plugin right now?
Minimoog by Universal Audio held the top spot on Plugin Boutique's bestseller list when we last read it, on 22 August 2026. Bestseller positions move week to week, particularly during a sale, so treat it as a snapshot of August 2026 rather than a permanent ranking.
Are the best-selling plugins the best ones to buy?
No. A sales rank measures how many people bought something, not how good it is. Of the 5 products on this page we have reviewed and scored ourselves, the scores run from 6.9 to 8.4 — a spread wide enough that popularity clearly is not standing in for quality. Use the chart to see what is selling and our roundups to see what is worth owning.
Why are so many best-selling plugins discounted?
Because discounts are what put them there. 10 of the 14 products on this page are on sale as we write this, at a median of 51% off and as much as 95% off. A plugin that goes on sale sells hard for a fortnight and climbs the chart, which means a bestseller list is partly a record of who ran a promotion recently.
How often is this list updated?
Not on a fixed schedule. The ranking is checked by hand — this one was read on 22 August 2026, and the date is noted under the chart so you can always see how fresh the order is. Prices, discounts and product images are different: those refresh on their own from the store's live product data, so the price on a card is current even when the position above it is not.
Do you earn a commission from this page?
Yes. Links to the store are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you if you buy through one. It changes nothing about the order of this page — the ranking is the store's, not ours, and we cannot influence it. Our own recommendations live in the roundups, where a discount never earns a product a place.