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May 24, 2026

Star Citizen crossed
one billion dollars.

$998,012,999

Raised by 6,543,109 backers — the first crowdfunded project of any kind to reach this milestone.

The ship that crossed the line

Anvil Odin.

The Anvil Odin is the largest ship ever conceived for Star Citizen — a capital-class vessel that dwarfs everything previously in the game. It is also the last concept ship Cloud Imperium will ever announce. With the Odin, CIG closed the concept ship era that began with the original Kickstarter campaign fourteen years ago.

The sale of the Anvil Odin in May 2026 generated enough pledges to push the cumulative funding total past $1,000,000,000. The largest ship in the game crossed the largest milestone in crowdfunding history. It is an unlikely kind of poetry.

For the backers who have been funding this project since 2012, the moment lands differently than a round number. It is confirmation that what they were paying for — a seamless, shared, living universe — was worth building. The funding did not stop. It never really did.

A starship and ground rover on a misty frontier moon in Star Citizen — illustrative art, not the Anvil Odin
Illustrative Star Citizen ship art — not the Anvil Odin.
In context

What $1 billion actually means.

Crowdfunding a billion dollars has never been done. Here is the scale of it.

$1B+
Star Citizen raised
From 6,543,109 individual backers
~$10M
Next-largest crowdfunded game
Star Citizen raised roughly 100× more than the next gaming campaign
$100–200M
Typical AAA game budget
Star Citizen raised 5–10× a major studio budget through crowdfunding alone
The arc

14 years to $1 billion.

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$0M$250M$500M$750M$1000M2012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262012 — $6M — KickstarterKickstarter$6M2013 — $35M — First record brokenFirst record broken$35M2014 — $67M — $50M stretch unlocked$50M stretch unlocked$67M2015 — $102M — Nine figuresNine figures$102M2016 — $138M — Steady climbSteady climb$138M2017 — $178M — 3.0 alpha3.0 alpha$178M2018 — $211M — Outside investmentOutside investment$211M2019 — $250M — Quarter billionQuarter billion$250M2020 — $333M — Pandemic surgePandemic surge$333M2021 — $412M — $400M crossed$400M crossed$412M2022 — $500M — Half a billionHalf a billion$500M2023 — $600M — $600M$600M$600M2024 — $700M — $700M crossed$700M crossed$700M2025 — $855M — Closing on a billionClosing on a billion$855M2026 — $1000M — $1 Billion Crossed$1 Billion Crossed$1000M
Cumulative crowdfunding raised. Outside investment from Calder Partners (2018) is not included in these totals. Current totals sourced from Roberts Space Industries. Figures rounded for clarity.
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Quick answers

The milestone, in three questions.

When did Star Citizen hit $1 billion?

May 24, 2026. The official RSI funding tracker crossed one billion dollars raised, contributed by more than 6.5 million backer accounts over fourteen years of crowdfunding.

What pushed Star Citizen over $1 billion?

The concept sale of the Anvil Odin — the largest ship in the game and the last concept ship CIG announced — was running as the tracker crossed the line.

Was Star Citizen the first crowdfunded project to reach $1 billion?

Yes — it is the first crowdfunded project of any kind to reach the billion-dollar milestone. No other crowdfunded campaign comes close to its total.

Sources

Where these numbers come from

Every factual claim on this page is verified against official Cloud Imperium Games sources. Dates and figures are checked against the primary RSI Comm-Link or page linked below — not third-party trackers.

  • Star Citizen crossed $1 billion in total funding raised on May 24, 2026, from over 6.5 million backer accounts.

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