The Diamond Casino Heist in GTA Online offers varying payouts based on the vault's contents, with diamonds being the rarest and most profitable. Factors like the chosen approach, crew member cuts, and damage taken during the heist impact the final take. Looting the maximum amount requires strategic planning and the best hacker to maximize time in the vault. Here's everything you need to know.
Maximum Potential Payouts & Vault Contents
The vault target, difficulty, first-week state, crew cuts, Lester's 5% cut, and damage taken all affect the final amount.
The table below shows repeat-run Normal values before cuts and take loss. Hard Mode adds 10%.
First completion of the weekly period
• Cash — Normal: GTA$2,753,730; Hard: GTA$3,029,103
• Artwork — Normal: GTA$3,059,700; Hard: GTA$3,365,670
• Gold — Normal: GTA$3,365,670; Hard: GTA$3,702,237
• Diamonds — Normal: GTA$4,283,580; Hard: GTA$4,711,938
Only the first completed Casino finale in the weekly period receives the higher payout. Later Casino runs use the repeat values.
Casino Heist Repeat Payouts
Vault Contents | Repeat Payout (Normal) |
|---|---|
Cash | GTA$1,480,500 |
Artwork | GTA$1,645,000 |
Gold | GTA$1,809,500 |
Diamonds | GTA$2,303,000 |
Normal-difficulty vault values for repeat completions after Title Update 1.73, before cuts and take loss.
Note that the first time you do the heist you will always get cash, and on subsequent attempts you might get artwork, gold or diamonds. It's preferable to get artwork over cash not only because you earn more, but the paintings themselves are actually easier / faster to loot. As you can see in the table above, gold and finally diamonds are easily the most profitable types of loot though.
Loot Type Probability
Casino Vault Loot Rarity
Vault Loot | Rarity / Probability |
|---|---|
Cash | Very common |
Artwork | Somewhat common |
Gold | Rare |
Diamonds | Very rare / event driven |
Relative availability of each vault target; Rockstar can enable diamonds for limited events.
Which loot you will receive is completely random, but some loot will appear more often than others. In fact, it correlates to the maximum potential payout of the loot types. So cash is most common, followed by artwork and so on through to diamonds. Note, however, that it appears Rockstar has the ability to adjust the probability of getting a particular type of loot. For example, during the Valentines Day events of 2020, it was observed that obtaining diamonds (usually the rarest) became a lot more common/easy.
Approach Hard Mode
When doing the Casino Heist you cannot use the same approach twice in a row (it will be locked). However, you can return to a previous approach if you use a different approach in the meantime (like doing Aggressive, then Big Con, then back to Aggressive).
Plus, the approach you are repeating (Aggressive in our example) will now have a Red Skull icon on it (as seen above) indicating that hard mode / higher difficulty will be activated if you proceed with that approach again. This means that the guards will be stronger, there will be more of them and their detection rate will be higher. There will also be six locks to destroy on the vault instead of the normal four, and two fingerprint hacks to do (instead of the regular one).
You do get a monetary bonus for all this added effort though — a 10% increase on the actual potential take versus "regular" difficulty! You can check out a video of us doing Hard Mode and looting diamonds here.
Avoid Damage
There's also no guarantee that you will walk away with the exact amount stated in this guide because as you get into combat situations and take damage you will lose a small amount of money for every hit you take. The amount lost is between 0.12% — 0.26% of the total cash you are carrying at the time. In practice, this means about $2,000 lost per shot.
That's why we always recommend you choose either the Big Con approach or the Silent & Sneaky approach for maximum profit, even if they are bit daunting. The Aggressive approach is fun and quick, but you risk losing quite a bit of your take due to amount of damage you will inevitably suffer.
Crew and Lester's Cuts
When calculating your final payout you also need to take your crew members' and Lester's cuts into consideration. Lester will take 5% of the total amount and your crew (hacker, driver, etc) payments will vary depending on who you have chosen (see our Support Crew guide for Big Con recommendations).
After that it is time for you and your heist-mates (the finale heist is for between 2 to 4 players) to split the percentages amongst yourselves. If two players carry out the heist then you can walk away anywhere between GTA$400,000 to GTA$800,000 each.
Looting Diamonds
The ability to loot diamonds from the Casino was actually locked when Rockstar first released the Diamond Casino Heist content. However, we then discovered that it was unlocked during the week of February 18, 2020 (i.e. for Valentine's Day).
It has now been confirmed that Rockstar has the ability to turn diamonds loot on and off, and that they will enable it for certain events, promotions or other significant dates.
Diamonds are event-driven. On a repeat run they pay GTA$2,303,000 on Normal or GTA$2,533,300 on Hard before cuts and take loss. If diamonds are the target on your first completed Casino finale of the weekly period, the values are GTA$4,283,580 on Normal or GTA$4,711,938 on Hard.
Vault Time
Maximising the amount of time you get inside the vault is essential. Every second counts when it comes to looting it.
Whenever choosing the hacker for your heist we recommend that you always go for the best hackers available, which are Paige Harris and Avi Schwartzman. Paige is available by default and takes 9% of the cut. She gives you 3 minutes and 15 seconds in the vault. Avi takes 10% of the cut and gives you 3 minutes 30 seconds. We recommend Avi as 15 seconds extra can really make a difference in your end payout.
The time it takes for the animations to play out while you're looting must be considered when working out the time you'll have to work in the vault. On top of that, if you're carrying out the Casino Heist using either the Big Con approach or the Silent & Sneaky approach you must leave the vault before the timer runs out if you want to exit undetected. So adding those extra 15 seconds with Avi will allow you to loot the maximum possible content, increasing your final take.
Daily Cash Grab Secret Vault
During the heist you can also grab some extra cash from the secret vault, which is on the ground floor right next to the elevator. The switch to open up the secret vault door is in the CCTV room next to the elevator. You can expect somewhere between $50,000 to $100,000 to be in there. It will vary from heist to heist though.
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If you grab the cash from this secret vault you also get an award for doing so called the "Daily Cash Grab", it gives you a 100 RP bonus too.
Current Maximum Take
The old GTA$3.619 million cap no longer applies after Title Update 1.73. A current run's maximum depends on the vault target, difficulty, and whether it is your first completed Casino Heist finale after the weekly reset. Use the target tables above or GTABoom's Heist Earnings Calculator to work through your setup.
Gold Bar Glitch
A now-patched glitch once let players respawn gold bars by leaving one bar on a tray, backing out of the grabbing animation, and starting it again. It could only be triggered once per cart.
At the time, players reported displayed hauls of GTA$4 million to GTA$5 million. The cap that existed then still limited the amount actually paid. Both the glitch and that old GTA$3.619 million cap are now historical and do not describe current Casino Heist payouts.