Steal An Egg Pets Tier List: Best Pets by Income (September 2026)

How do pets earn money in Steal An Egg?

Pets are the paycheck. You steal an egg, hatch it, and the pet that pops out takes a spot on a treadmill or earning zone at your base, generating cash every second until you walk over and collect the pile. That loop comes straight from the official how-to-play list: hatch eggs to collect rare pets, earn money from your pets, and upgrade your treadmill and base as you go.

Every placed pet advertises its own rate on a floating tag. One frame-checked example from the current Dr Scrambles Revenge era: a Golden Burrowing Owl tagged at $65 per second, ticking away on a treadmill while the counter above it grew. That owl is the yardstick the rest of this page is measured against - not because it is special, but because it is the one rate we have verified pixel by pixel. Placed pets only earn while placed, so an empty treadmill slot is lost income, and the opening routine that fills your first slots matters more than any single lucky hatch.

What makes a pet top tier?

Three factors stack. Base income comes first - the dollars-per-second number attached to the species itself, which the in-game index lets you sort by. Mutations come second: they multiply that base rate, sometimes more than doubling it, which is why a mediocre species with a great roll can leapfrog a better species with none. Our mutations guide breaks down every known multiplier and where it drops. Weight comes third - eggs display a Kilogram figure, and heavier pets are consistently treated by creators as the premium versions of a species.

The interview show Vindooly recorded with the game’s then-number-one player makes the ceiling obvious: her placed collection pulls trillions of cash per second, and she credits mutations for most of it, saying her best pet would earn only a fraction without them. The multiplier you roll sits on top of the base you hatch, never instead of it.

Which pets land in S, A, and B tiers right now?

An honest caveat before the bands: the roster is enormous - one community index counts roughly 160 pets - and the only individual name we have verified on screen is that $65/s owl. So these tiers describe kinds of pets, and the in-game index supplies the current names and exact rates.

S tier - exclusives. Divine-rarity pets anchor the top: every creator video we surveyed treats Divine as the end of the rarity ladder. Next to them sit limited-egg exclusives, which earn their placement by simple scarcity - the Mecha line from the Monster Egg shop, and the fused Aetheron line that only the Fuse Machine produces. If a pet cannot be hatched from the common pool, it holds S-tier value indefinitely.

A tier - strong limited pulls. The upper rarity slots of limited rotations land here. When a shop like the Monster Egg rotation puts its best standard slot at 0.5%, anything that drops from that slot outearns nearly everything in the regular hatch pool. Heavy high-rarity hatches from the rarest biome eggs round out the band.

B tier - dependable earners. Everything that pays a steady rate while you work upward: solid mid-rarity hatches in the Golden Burrowing Owl class. B-tier pets fund the rerolls and fuse attempts that eventually produce the tiers above them, so disrespecting this band is the fastest way to stall.

Noobinini’s income ranking (September 2026) sorts the whole roster against exactly this yardstick - pure cash per second, no vibes - and it is the right habit to copy whenever an update reshuffles values.

How do you get better pets?

Four channels, in the order most players meet them. First, plain hatching: rarer egg types from rarer biomes roll higher rarities, and the index shows what each egg can contain. Second, limited rotations. The Monster Egg shop live during the September 2026 check ran on a countdown timer (about four days left when we frame-checked it) and listed six standard rarity slots at 39% / 26% / 18% / 11% / 6.5% / 0.5%, plus a separate Mecha line at 1%, with four premium bundles priced at 34.99, 799, 249, and 99 for 50, 10, 5, and 1 eggs respectively. Those numbers are a snapshot of one rotation, not a permanent table - the shop re-rolls on a timer. Third, the Fuse Machine: Radex Tips’ walkthrough reports it takes three copies of the same pet and can produce a higher-result pet or a mutated one, still RNG-gated, and JuJuBo TV’s Divine Aetheron fusion shows the ceiling of that path. Fourth, events: admin abuse weekends are credited by creators with spawning special eggs and mutated pets you cannot get on a normal Tuesday.

Funding all of this is where free players should start - the milestone gifts on our codes page buy a surprising number of early eggs, and the current Dr Scrambles update cycle keeps adding event windows to catch.

Should you reroll a pet or keep it?

The one reroll mechanic we have verified on screen is the Monster Egg shop’s Mecha Re-roll, attached to its 1% Mecha line - a paid retry aimed at the rotation’s rarest outcome. Outside limited shops, “rerolling” mostly means re-hatching: keep pulling the best egg you can afford and let duplicates feed the Fuse Machine.

The keep-or-replace rule comes from Radex Tips and bears repeating: a heavy pet with strong base earnings beats a weaker pet wearing a better mutation. Evaluate in the same order - base rate from the index, then weight, then whatever multiplier it is already carrying - and only replace a pet when the challenger wins on the first two counts, not just the shiny third.

How did we build this tier list?

Income first, everything else second. The only number on this page verified frame-by-frame is the $65/s Golden Burrowing Owl; every band, roster count, and shop percentage is community-reported or rotation-specific, attributed to the creators who documented it, and checked against the game as of September 28, 2026 under the Dr Scrambles Revenge update. Limited shops rotate on countdown timers and balance patches move rates, so treat every figure here as a snapshot - the in-game index, sorted by income, is always the current truth. For the multiplier half of the equation, see our pets section companion pieces.