Pink Star Sapphire — Price and Buying Guide

Pink star sapphire is one of the color positions in which corundum shows asterism. This guide prices it specifically, as a companion to our color-specific guides for blue and purple and violet star sapphire. Pink and purple star sapphire are listed interchangeably all over the trade, so this guide also sets out what the laboratory reports actually print.

What a Pink Star Sapphire Is

Star sapphire is corundum that contains needle-like inclusions of rutile, formed inside the crystal as it grew. Corundum is trigonal, so those needles lie in three sets 60° apart, and a domed cabochon gathers their reflections into a star. The needles are part of the crystal and survive cutting whatever shape the stone is given; what the dome changes is the surface those reflections are gathered from. GIA describes the effect plainly: it is "caused by reflections from tiny, needle-like inclusions that are oriented in several specific directions." For the underlying asterism science, see our Star Sapphire Buyer's Guide.

Pink, Purple and Violet Star Sapphire — What the Reports Print

Pink, purple and violet star sapphire get mixed up constantly in listings across the trade. What settles which is which for a particular stone is not a definition but the color value its laboratory report prints — and those values are often compound, which is the ordinary case rather than a borderline one. Our three stones illustrate it, because all three are documented:

• Our 3.26 ct stone: GIA Sapphire Origin Report #2235836233 prints Color: Purplish Pink.
• Our 7.99 ct stone: GIA Sapphire Origin Report #5232980224 prints Color: Purple.
• Our 3.40 ct stone: GIA Sapphire Report #1236950499 prints Color: Violet.

All three reports also print Variety: Natural Star Sapphire and Phenomenon: Displaying Asterism. What none of them prints is a ranking between the three colors, and we do not supply one in place of it. For the other two colors, see our companion Purple & Violet Star Sapphire Price Guide.

Pink Star Sapphire Price by Per-Carat Band (2026)

The table below sets out the per-carat levels pink star sapphire is commonly offered at, and what tends to change between them. The headings matter: these are price bands, not quality grades. No laboratory grades asterism, so nothing here is a grading scale, and our own stone is not placed on it.

Approximate market orientation as at October 2026, for natural pink star sapphire sold loose. These are not measured figures, not a survey, and not our own sales data, and they are not offers. The bands carry no size qualifier, so a larger stone's total price cannot be obtained by reading a band and multiplying. Our own stock is one stone and is described separately below.

Why the Star Itself Is Not a Priced Grade Here

Most price guides for this material price it on the quality of the star. This one does not, and the reason is worth stating plainly.

The trade does price star stones on the phenomenon, and that much is not in dispute. What does not exist is any published laboratory grading of it. GIA states that it "doesn't grade or provide quality analysis for sapphire or other colored stones." The Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee, whose information sheets standardize report wording across the major laboratories, publishes none that covers asterism. CIBJO defines the category and stops there. So a description of how a particular star looks is the seller's own opinion — ours included — and no report can be produced to substantiate it.

The bands above are built instead on the three things a report or an invoice actually records: body color, carat weight, and what documentation comes with the stone. The star is the reason the stone exists. It is simply not something any laboratory will grade for you.

What You Actually Get at Each Budget

Under $200 per carat means a pale or greyish body color and usually no laboratory report at all — recognizably pink star sapphire, and priced accordingly.

Between $200 and $500 per carat, more of the pink reads through rather than grey. Documentation at this level is inconsistent, and worth asking about before you buy.

Between $500 and $2,500 per carat, the body color is clearly pink, and a report from a recognized laboratory becomes the normal expectation rather than a bonus. Our own stone's per-carat figure falls in this band: $2,834 ÷ 3.26 ct = $869.33 per carat. That is arithmetic about a price, not a position on a quality scale.

Above $2,500 per carat you are paying for an even, saturated pink and a full report from a major laboratory — frequently one that carries a geographic origin opinion as well.

Carat Weight and Total Price

Per-carat price and total price are different numbers and it is easy to conflate them. Our 3.26 ct stone is $2,834 in total and $869.33 per carat; a 1 ct stone at the same per-carat level would come to about $870. The per-carat figure is what lets you compare stones of different weights; the total is what you pay.

We have not published a size-by-band breakdown, because we have no source for one. Anyone who tells you pink star sapphire costs a specific multiple more per carat at 5 ct than at 2 ct is estimating, and so would we be.

Laboratory Reports

Laboratory-grown star corundum is common in the market and is not always easy to separate from natural material by eye, so a report earns its keep here more than on many stones. What a report does is identify the material, state whether it is natural or laboratory-grown, and record detectable treatment indications. Where the stone came from is a different question, answered by a different service.

Our stone is accompanied by GIA Sapphire Origin Report #2235836233, which places its geographic origin in Sri Lanka. GIA treats that finding as an opinion and says so in its own words: "Any statement on geographic origin is an expert opinion based on a collection of observations and analytical data." The Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee makes the same point about reports generally — "All findings described in the report are opinions expressed by the laboratory." Those are opinions reached by qualified examiners, and that is exactly how we present them.

The same report prints Additional Results: No Indications of Heating. For how to read the rest of the document, see our guide to reading a GIA sapphire report.

Origin is also not a quality grade, which is why it does not appear as a column in the table above. Where a stone was formed and how it looks are two separate findings, and pricing one as though it were the other is a habit worth breaking. See our natural star sapphire identification guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is star sapphire pink or purple?

Both are color positions corundum occurs in, and a star sapphire can be either. For a particular stone the question is settled by the color value its laboratory report prints rather than by a definition, and those values are often compound. Our own stone is a case in point: GIA Sapphire Origin Report #2235836233 prints Color: Purplish Pink. We publish the report's value rather than rounding it to one word.

How much does a pink star sapphire cost?

Pink star sapphire is commonly offered somewhere between about $50 and $2,500 per carat, and where a given stone falls depends on its body color, its carat weight, and what documentation comes with it. Those figures are an approximate market orientation rather than measured data. Our own stock is one stone: 3.26 ct at $2,834 in total, which works out at $869.33 per carat.

Is star quality graded by a laboratory?

No. GIA states that it "doesn't grade or provide quality analysis for sapphire or other colored stones," and the Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee, whose information sheets standardize report wording across the major laboratories, publishes none that covers asterism. A report will record that a stone displays the phenomenon; it will not rate it. So any description of how a particular star looks is the seller's own opinion, ours included, which is why we would rather send you video of the stone than hand you an adjective.

How many pink star sapphires do you have in stock?

One. A 3.26 ct pink star sapphire at $2,834, or $869.33 per carat, accompanied by GIA Sapphire Origin Report #2235836233, which places its geographic origin in Sri Lanka. One stone is not a price range and we have not presented it as one.

Shop Our Pink Star Sapphire

One stone, currently in stock: our 3.26 ct natural unheated pink star sapphire from Sri Lanka, $2,834 in total and $869.33 per carat, accompanied by GIA Sapphire Origin Report #2235836233. Its report prints Shape Oval and Cutting Style Double Cabochon as two separate fields, and the stone measures 8.66 × 7.95 × 5.15 mm. We can send video of the stone before you buy.

Explore Further

• Star Sapphire — The Complete Buyer's Guide
• Blue Star Sapphire Price Guide
• Purple & Violet Star Sapphire Price Guide
• Star Sapphire vs. Regular Sapphire — What's the Difference?
• How to Tell If a Star Sapphire Is Natural
• Buying Sapphires for Jyotish (Vedic Astrology)
• What Is a GIA Sapphire Report and How Do You Read One?

Have a question about our pink star sapphire, or want to see it on video before buying? Email crescentgems@gmail.com — we respond within one business day. Free US shipping; $60 flat elsewhere, free over $499. 14-day returns on every order.