Soft vs armoured
Soft rigs are storage-only carriers. Armoured rigs add a positive armour class, durability and protected zones — the same property family as dedicated body armour.
Escape from Tarkov chest rigs database
Compare soft chest rigs and armoured plate carriers for the selected PvP profile. Capacity, storage grids, armour class, durability, plate slots, movement penalties and market prices come from cached Tarkov.dev item properties — never invented. Pair this table with the armour database, ammo chart and flea market.
How Escape from Tarkov chest rigs work
Capacity and grids
Capacity is total inventory cells. Grid layouts show each pocket size (for example 1×2 or 2×2) returned by the API so you can compare pocket shapes, not only total slots.
Plate and soft armour slots
Armoured carriers expose plate slots and soft-armour panels with class, durability and allowed plate lists when Tarkov.dev provides them.
Penalties and market
Speed, turning and ergonomics penalties are API fractions shown as percentages. Trader buy/sell and flea columns are cached snapshots — not a live flea feed.
What this database includes
Every item with Tarkov.dev property type ItemPropertiesChestRig — including soft scav vests
and classed plate carriers. Soft unarmoured rigs that the
armour database excludes appear here so you can compare pure storage options.
Filter by kind, armour class, material and protected zones, then click a row for the full property breakdown. Switch PvP, PvE or Season when trader and flea prices differ by profile.
Kind
Armour class
Material
Armour type
Protected zones
Chest rig statistics
| Rig | Kind | Class | Cap | Grids | Dur | Material | Speed | Turn | Ergo | Wt | Price |
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How to compare chest rigs on TarkovHQ
Start with the kind chips if you only want soft storage or armoured carriers, then narrow by class and material. Click a row to expand storage grids, plate slots, protection, movement and market details. Use the mode selector when trader or flea prices differ between PvP and PvE. For dedicated body armour and helmets, open the armour database; for round penetration, use the ammo chart.