Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 price, editions and pre-order bonuses

Last checked: October 17, 2026

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is listed for pre-order in two editions, Standard and Vault, ahead of its 23 October 2026 launch, with pricing confirmed on official storefronts at $69.99 for Standard and $99.99 for Vault in the United States, though Activision has not published a full, region-by-region price sheet that we could verify at the time of writing. This page lays out exactly what the official store and platform listings confirm, what the last four Call of Duty releases tell you about likely pricing, and which claims you should treat as unannounced until Activision says otherwise.

What is confirmed right now

Three things are solid. Modern Warfare 4 has a release date of 23 October 2026. The official Call of Duty store carries a pre-order page for it. That page lists a Standard Edition and a Vault Edition, with a PlayStation Store listing for PS5 also live.

Beyond that, the confirmed detail thins out quickly. The official store surfaces content names tied to KSK Amphibious and South Korean Special Forces themed items, which fits the Modern Warfare habit of selling operator packs built around real-world units. What each of those packs contains, and whether they sit in the Vault Edition or arrive as pre-order incentives for both editions, was not spelled out in the material we could check.

Prices in the official store only appear after you pick a region and confirm your date of birth, which is why the ranking store pages all start with those two prompts. That regional gate is also why you should not trust a single dollar figure quoted on a third-party site without checking your own storefront.

Price per edition and platform

Here is the state of play, with precedent shown separately so you can tell the difference between an announced number and a pattern.

| Edition | PC (Windows) | PS5 | Xbox Series X|S | Status |
|—|—|—|—|—|
| Standard Edition | $69.99 | $69.99 | $69.99 | Confirmed on official storefronts (US) |
| Vault Edition | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | Confirmed on official storefronts (US) |
| Last-gen (PS4, Xbox One) | Not applicable | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not announced |

Activision has sold its annual release at the same two price points for four straight years in the United States, and Modern Warfare 4’s confirmed US prices continue that run.

Take a clear reading from that table: the series has held $69.99 and $99.99 through a period when other publishers tested $79.99 for flagship releases. Modern Warfare 4 holds those numbers in the United States; check your own storefront for the regional figure. For a wider look at how the franchise has priced itself over the years, see our Call of Duty price breakdown.

Regional pricing

Call of Duty uses regional pricing on PC through Battle.net, Steam and the Xbox app, and console stores set local prices in local currency. Recent entries have typically landed at £69.99 in the UK and €79.99 in the eurozone for Standard, with Vault at £99.99 and €109.99, but Modern Warfare 4 regional prices are not confirmed. Pick your country on the official store to see the live figure.

What each edition includes

Activision has not published a full contents list for either Modern Warfare 4 edition that we could verify. The table below separates what the store listing names from what the Vault Edition has contained in every recent release.

Standard Edition

The Standard Edition is the full game. In Modern Warfare terms that means the single-player campaign, multiplayer, and whatever co-op or Zombies-style mode Infinity Ward’s team attaches, plus access to Warzone content that ties into the new game. Standard buyers have never been locked out of any mode, map or playlist. The Vault Edition sells time and cosmetics, never gameplay.

Previous Standard Editions on PlayStation and Xbox have been cross-gen bundles, so one purchase covered PS4 and PS5 or Xbox One and Series X|S. Whether MW4 ships on last-gen hardware at all is not announced. Black Ops 7 still supported PS4 and Xbox One in 2025, which was later than most analysts expected, so do not assume either outcome.

Vault Edition

Vault is the $30 upsell, and its value depends almost entirely on whether you were going to buy the Battle Pass anyway. In Modern Warfare III, Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7, the Vault Edition bundled the Season 1 Battle Pass, a stack of tier skips, the BlackCell premium track, a set of operators and weapon blueprints, plus a handful of extras like a weapon charm or a GobbleGum pack in the Black Ops games.

Priced out at the in-game rates, the Battle Pass alone costs 1,100 CoD Points (roughly $9.99), and BlackCell has sold for $29.99 as a standalone purchase in each of those games. If MW4’s Vault follows the same structure, the $30 premium roughly pays for BlackCell by itself and the operators ride along for nothing. If it does not include BlackCell, the maths flips and the Standard Edition plus a Battle Pass becomes the cheaper route.

What the MW4 Vault actually contains is not confirmed. The KSK Amphibious and South Korean Special Forces content named on the store page reads like operator pack material, which would normally be Vault territory, but we could not verify the edition split.

Pre-order bonuses

Pre-order incentives for Modern Warfare 4 have not been fully detailed. The store does confirm that pre-orders are open, and the series’ pattern over the last four games is consistent enough to lay out what to expect, clearly tagged as precedent.

The Open Beta early access window has been the one bonus that applies every year and to every edition. Modern Warfare III ran its beta in October 2023 with pre-order players getting in roughly two days ahead of the open weekend. Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7 repeated the format in late August and early October respectively. If MW4 keeps a late-October launch, a September or early-October beta is the logical slot, but no beta date is announced.

Campaign early access is the one to watch. Modern Warfare III gave pre-order buyers the campaign a week before launch, and Activision dropped the perk for both Black Ops games. Whether it returns for MW4 is not confirmed.

Game Pass, PS Plus and subscription status

Modern Warfare 4 on Xbox Game Pass is not confirmed. The precedent since the Microsoft acquisition closed is two for two: Black Ops 6 launched into Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on day one in October 2024, and Black Ops 7 did the same in November 2025. Microsoft has also back-filled the catalogue, adding Modern Warfare III in July 2024 and Modern Warfare II later that year.

Two caveats matter for your budget. The first is that Game Pass Ultimate rose to $29.99 a month in the United States in October 2025, which changed the arithmetic on “free with the subscription”. At that price, three months of Ultimate costs more than a Standard Edition on its own, so Game Pass only beats buying outright if you were keeping the subscription for other reasons.

The second is that Vault content has never come with Game Pass. Black Ops 6 and 7 subscribers could buy a Vault Edition upgrade at a discount through the Xbox Store, typically around $30, which is effectively the Vault premium without the base game. If MW4 goes to Game Pass, expect a similar upgrade path, but that is not confirmed.

Call of Duty has never been a PlayStation Plus day-one title and Sony’s ten-year deal with Microsoft covers parity, not subscription inclusion. Do not wait for a PS Plus launch.

Platform and storefront details

The official store, the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store confirm a 23 October 2026 release on PC (Windows), PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. Xbox Series X|S has shipped every Call of Duty of the last decade, and its listing is live alongside the PlayStation one.

Microsoft’s agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo hardware was signed in 2023, and no entry has shipped on a Nintendo console since. Modern Warfare 4’s Switch 2 listing is the first entry under that deal.

On PC, the three storefronts have historically sold the same editions at the same base price. The practical differences are refund terms and launcher. Steam refunds any pre-order in full right up to release, and after launch applies its usual two-hour, fourteen-day rule. Battle.net refunds pre-orders but tightens after you have played. The Xbox app on PC is the route for PC Game Pass members. Steam also lets you check “mw4 system requirements” on the store page before committing, which is worth doing given how large recent Call of Duty installs have been.

Crossplay has been standard across PC, PlayStation and Xbox since 2019 for every Call of Duty release, and nothing suggests MW4 will drop it, though it is not formally confirmed. Our “mw4 crossplay” page tracks the official word on that, and “mw4 release time” covers the unlock schedule by time zone once Activision publishes it.

What the Vault Edition costs in CoD Points terms

If you are weighing Vault against buying the extras later, the in-game pricing is the benchmark. These are the CoD Points bundles Activision has sold across the last several games in the United States; MW4 has not confirmed any change, and the bundles are not confirmed to carry over unchanged.

A Battle Pass costs 1,100 CP, and the pass returns 1,400 CP across its tiers if you complete it, which is how regular players roll one season’s pass into the next. BlackCell sells for $29.99 and includes the Battle Pass, 1,100 CP back, and the extra premium tier.

So the Vault Edition’s $30 premium (on precedent) buys you what would otherwise be a $29.99 BlackCell purchase plus the operator and blueprint packs. For anyone who buys BlackCell every season, Vault is the obvious pick. For a campaign-first player who dips into multiplayer casually, Standard plus nothing else is the honest answer.

Physical copies and disc contents

Modern Warfare 4 has a confirmed physical Standard Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at $69.99, in line with recent Call of Duty games, which have shipped as a Standard disc only. No physical Vault Edition is listed; the Vault Edition is digital-only.

One detail that catches people out every year: the disc has not contained the full game since 2022. Modern Warfare III’s disc held roughly 70 MB and functioned as a licence key that triggered a full download. Black Ops 6 and 7 shipped similarly. If you are buying physical for a slow connection or a data cap, that plan does not work for this series. Budget for the full install either way.

How the editions have changed over the series

Modern Warfare 4 is the fourth entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare line that Infinity Ward started in 2019, and the edition structure has shifted with each game.

Modern Warfare (2019) sold a Standard Edition at $59.99, an Operator Edition at $79.99 and an Operator Enhanced Edition at $99.99. Modern Warfare II (2022) was the first at $69.99 for Standard and introduced the Vault Edition name at $99.99, dropping the mid-tier. Modern Warfare III (2023) kept both price points, added campaign early access as a pre-order perk, and bundled Zombies into the base game. Black Ops 6 and 7 held the structure and added day-one Game Pass.

The direction of travel is simple: two editions, a $30 gap, and premium content that is almost entirely cosmetic or seasonal. MW4’s listed editions match that shape exactly.

Age rating

No ESRB, PEGI or ACB rating for Modern Warfare 4 was published at the time of this check. Every mainline Call of Duty since 2003 has carried ESRB Mature 17+ and PEGI 18, and Modern Warfare II and III both earned M for blood and gore, intense violence, strong language and suggestive themes. The regional age gate on the official store exists because of that history. A rating listing normally appears two to four months before launch, so expect it over the summer.

Release date and launch timing

Modern Warfare 4 releases on 23 October 2026 on PC (Windows), with PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 listed alongside. That is a Friday, which matches Modern Warfare II and III, both of which also launched on a late-October Friday or the preceding Thursday depending on time zone. Specific unlock times by region are not confirmed. Recent entries unlocked at 9 PM PT the evening before the listed date in the Americas and at midnight local time elsewhere, with PC preloads opening roughly a week early.

What you can plan around now:

• Pre-orders are open on the official store and PlayStation Store.
• Beta dates: not announced.
• Preload date: not announced.
• Campaign early access: not announced.
• Season 1 start date: not announced; the series has run its first season within three to four weeks of launch.

FAQ

How much does Modern Warfare 4 cost?

Activision has confirmed Modern Warfare 4 at $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Vault Edition in the US, matching every mainline Call of Duty since 2022. Regional prices are not fully confirmed, so check your own storefront for the live figure.

What is the difference between the Standard and Vault Edition?

Both include the full game. The Vault Edition adds cosmetic and seasonal content. In recent games that meant the Season 1 Battle Pass with tier skips, BlackCell, operator packs and weapon blueprints. The exact MW4 Vault contents are not confirmed, though the official store names KSK Amphibious and South Korean Special Forces themed items.

Will Modern Warfare 4 be on Game Pass at launch?

Not confirmed. Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7 both launched day one on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, so it is a strong precedent, but Activision has not announced MW4’s subscription status.

Is Modern Warfare 4 coming to PS Plus?

No Call of Duty has launched into PlayStation Plus, and nothing suggests MW4 will be the first. Expect to buy it on PS5.

What do I get for pre-ordering?

Pre-order bonuses are not fully confirmed. Open Beta early access has come with every Call of Duty pre-order for years and is the safest expectation. Campaign early access came with Modern Warfare III but not the Black Ops games, so do not assume it.

Is Modern Warfare 4 on PS4 and Xbox One?

Not announced. Black Ops 7 still shipped on PS4 and Xbox One alongside PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2025, so a cross-gen release is possible, but the listings we could verify name PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2 only.

Can I get a refund on a Modern Warfare 4 pre-order?

On Steam, yes, in full at any point before release. The PlayStation Store allows pre-order cancellations up to the release date, and Battle.net and the Xbox Store refund pre-orders before launch as well. After launch, normal platform refund rules apply.

Will Vault Edition content work in Warzone?

Every Vault Edition since Modern Warfare II has carried its operators and blueprints into Warzone. MW4’s integration with Warzone is not formally confirmed, but there is no precedent for it being withheld.

About the Author

Priya Nair

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Priya Nair covers the questions people ask in the week before a launch: when a game unlocks in their time zone, what it costs, what each edition includes and which subscription services carry it. Release timing is her particular focus, because a single "launches on the 14th" can mean different hours in Tokyo, London and Los Angeles, and publishers often stagger unlocks by region or platform. She converts official unlock times rather than estimating them, lists edition contents by item rather than by marketing name, and records age ratings from the rating boards themselves. Regional price differences and pre-order bonuses get the same line-by-line treatment.

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