Free Primogems in Genshin Impact

The repeatable sources — what you get, and how often

These are the ones that keep paying. If you only do the first row, you are already collecting more Primogems per month than every one-off source on this page combined.

The figures in the first four rows come from the community wiki's Primogem page, which is the only place we found that states the per-source amounts rather than a monthly total. Where it publishes no figure, we say so rather than invent one.

These are not free — do not count them

They appear on almost every “free Primogems” page, and they are all paid. They are listed here only so you can recognise them and subtract them from any total you are quoted.

One-off sources — large totals, but you only get them once

These are where the big lifetime numbers come from. They are real, but they are not income: once you have cleared the map and earned the achievements, that well is dry.

Sources with no published figure

These pay, but nobody publishes a reliable per-source number for them, so we will not guess:

• Chests — pay 0, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40 or 80 each, depending on the chest's quality and where it is. The range is wide enough that any “per chest” average you see quoted is someone's guess.
• Archon Quests, Story Quests, Hangout Events and World Quests — all pay, none has a stated per-quest amount.
• Completing one-time Domains — pays, no published amount.
• Unlocking tutorials — pays 1 or 2 each, depending on the tutorial.
• Serenitea Pot Gift Sets — 40 per owned character, excluding the Traveler. Counts as one-off because each character's set can only be given once.
• Events, promotional codes and occasional mail — all pay, none has a fixed figure, because the amounts change every version.

A routine that actually adds up

The difference between a player who collects Primogems and one who does not is not effort, it is whether the repeatable rows happen on a schedule. Four things, in this order:

1. Every day: the four Daily Commissions, then talk to Katheryne for the completion bonus. 60 Primogems. This one habit is worth more per month than every one-off source combined.
2. Every day, ten seconds: the HoYoLAB web check-in. It is separate from the game and easy to forget for weeks at a time.
3. Twice a month, on fixed dates: the 1st for Imaginarium Theater, the 16th for Spiral Abyss Floors 9–12. Put them in a calendar — these two are the biggest single payouts on the page and they are the easiest to let lapse.
4. Whenever a version drops: claim your mail, and check the code list. Version compensation arrives by mail automatically, and the codes from the Special Program expire within days.

Why your real total is lower than the big numbers

If you add up this page you get a number in the tens of thousands, and then your own total looks wrong. It is not. Three reasons:

• The one-off totals assume completion. 14,015 from achievements assumes every achievement in the game. 1,800 from waypoints assumes you have explored essentially the whole map. Those are ceilings, not expectations.
• The repeatable totals assume you never skip a day. 1,800 a month from Commissions is 30 days of doing them. Miss a third of them and the number drops by a third.
• Nothing here counts the pity system. Primogems convert into Fates, and Fates convert into pulls. How far a Primogem total actually gets you depends on where your pity counter sits, which is a separate calculation.

The honest summary: the repeatable table is your income, the one-off table is your savings, and the paid table is neither. If a page mixes all three into one headline number, that number does not mean anything.

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