A Parent’s Guide to Robux: What Your Child Is Asking For
Your child has asked for Robux, and the reasonable questions are: what are they, what do they cost, and is any of this a scam?
Short answers: an in-platform currency, more than the numbers suggest, and yes — specifically anything offering them free. The longer version is below, arranged in the order the decisions actually arrive.
What Robux are, briefly#
Robux are the currency inside Roblox. Real money buys them; they buy avatar items, game passes and in-experience purchases. They cannot be sent between accounts, and for a player — as opposed to a creator — there is no way to turn them back into money.
- Bought in fixed packs, or included monthly with a Premium subscription.
- Spent on items and upgrades inside individual experiences made by other users.
- Not transferable as a gift between accounts; only gift cards and subscriptions can be given.
- Not refundable in the general case, though unauthorised purchases have a separate route.
That third point is worth remembering, because it makes almost every offer to give or trade Robux impossible to fulfil — and therefore a scam.
What they actually cost#
The numbers are large and the money is not, which is a combination designed to feel small. Converting before agreeing is a useful habit, and our calculator does it in your own currency.
| Robux | Roughly | Reads to a child as |
|---|---|---|
| 100 R$ | About $1 | Nothing |
| 400 R$ | About $4–5 | A small ask |
| 1,700 R$ | About $20 | Still one number |
| 10,000 R$ | About $100 | A number, not a hundred dollars |
The last row is the one to watch. Ten thousand is the amount most commonly promised by scam sites, precisely because it sounds like a lot and is a hundred dollars of real value.
Why free Robux is always a scam#
There is a one-line version and it holds up: Robux cost real money to buy and no external website can add them to an account, so a site giving away 10,000 Robux would be spending around a hundred dollars per visitor. Nobody does that. They are collecting something else — usually the account.
- Generators and code sites take login details through fake Roblox login pages.
- Human verification pages earn the operator money from surveys and app installs.
- Fake trades take items by getting the child to send first.
- Browser extensions steal session tokens, which bypass the password entirely.
- People offering to recover a hacked account for a fee cannot do it — only Roblox can.
The most useful sentence to give a child is not a rule but a test: nobody legitimate ever needs your password or a verification code, no matter who they say they are.
The four decisions worth making early#
- Whose email is on the account? Use one a parent controls — it is the recovery path, and without it a compromised account is often unrecoverable.
- Is there a parent PIN? It locks the account settings so they cannot be changed.
- Card or gift card? A gift card caps the exposure at its value; a linked card does not.
- Premium or packs? A subscription keeps charging in the months nobody logs in; packs do not.
None of these is about restriction so much as bounding the downside. Roblox is a creative platform with a genuinely good side, and it is easier to be relaxed about the good side when the failure modes are bounded.
The conversation that works better than settings#
Every parent who has dealt with this reports the same thing: the settings help and the conversation is what actually prevents the problem, because the successful scams are social rather than technical.
- Agree that anything involving free Robux gets shown to you first, without judgement.
- Make clear that being tricked will not mean losing access — otherwise it gets hidden until it is worse.
- Explain that a friend’s message asking for a password often means the friend’s account was taken.
- Cover slow scams too: someone friendly who helps for weeks and then asks for a small favour is the pattern children have not been warned about.
- Agree what happens with money before it is asked for, so the answer is not being negotiated in the moment.
The second point does more work than all the others. Children hide compromised accounts because they expect to lose the account as a punishment, and the delay is what turns a recoverable incident into a permanent one.
Frequently asked questions
What are Robux and why does my child want them?
Robux are the currency inside Roblox, bought with real money and spent on avatar items, game passes and purchases inside individual experiences that other users have made. Children want them for the same reasons they want anything social: to have what their friends have, to unlock something in a game they play a lot, or to express themselves through an avatar. They cannot be sent between accounts, and for a player there is no route back to real money.
Is free Robux ever real?
No. Robux cost real money to buy, and no external website can add them to a Roblox account — the balance lives on Roblox’s servers. A site handing out 10,000 Robux would be spending around a hundred dollars per visitor, which no advertising or survey revenue covers, so it is always collecting something else: login details, survey revenue, or an app install. The only genuinely free things are occasional official Roblox promotions and items given inside individual experiences.
How much money is 10,000 Robux?
Around a hundred US dollars at the standard pack price, and the equivalent in other currencies is set separately rather than converted daily. That figure is worth knowing because 10,000 is the amount most commonly promised by scam sites — chosen precisely because it sounds like a large in-game number rather than a hundred dollars of real money.
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