Cookies per Click

Cookies per Click, or CpC, is a major element in Cookie Clicker. You start off with 1 cookie per click when clicking the big cookie, so 15 clicks lets you buy the first cursor. Each cursor upgrade upgrades Cookies per Click.

Starting the Game

When the players start the game, they have no cookies. The player must click the big cookie to gain more cookies, or wait until a Golden Cookie appears (recommended to get the no-click achievements). Once the player has accumulated enough cookies, they can buy buildings and upgrades, which help the player gain cookies without clicking.

Mid-Game

During mid-game, the player should have many buildings and upgrades allowing them to obtain cookies quickly, which makes clicking the Big Cookie seem obsolete unless you have Click Frenzy or the Dragonflight aura active. However, mid-game, with all clicking upgrades, you can gain about 10-13% of your CpS per click. They can be obtained by getting the corresponding tier of achievement. With moderately fast constant clicking, the player can effectively at least double their cookie production.

Late-Game

During the late-game, the cookie production dramatically slows down because buildings and upgrades require days' worth of cookies to purchase. The cost of buildings will only further increase as their efficiency will continue to remain the same. During this phase of the game players can choose to maximise their idling by leaving their game on with the Golden Switch and Shimmering Veil. However, active play styles are the most efficient late game because of Golden Cookies. Golden Cookies appear around every 2 minutes and can provide buffs to cookie production. By strategically stacking buffs like Click Frenzy and Building Special, a player can make a very large sum of cookies in a few minutes.

Cookie-Clicking Value

A number of upgrades increase base value of 1 CpC, processed in the following order:  

1. The Reinforced index finger, Carpal tunnel prevention cream and Ambidextrous Upgrades each double the click value (bringing the total to 8 CpC).
2. The bonuses from Clicking upgrades, Fortune Cookie Upgrade #104, and the remaining cursor upgrades (Thousand fingers,...) are added to the CpC.
3. All other multipliers that affect the CpC:
   1. Santa's helpers increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
   2. Cookie egg increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
   3. The Heavenly Upgrade Halo Gloves increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
   4. Aura gloves and Luminous gloves increase the click value by 5% per Cursor level, maxed at level 20 Cursor (multiplier of 2).
   5. Krumblor's Dragon claw increase the click value by 3% (multiplier of 1.03).
   6. Two of Krumblor's Auras directly increase the click value. Dragon Cursor increases the click value by 5% (1.05), Reality Bending by 0.5% (1.005), and with both active, they increase click value by 5.5% (1.055).
   7. Golden Cookie outcome Click Frenzy multiplies CpC by 777.
   8. Golden Cookie outcome Dragonflight multiplies CpC by 1111 (1222.1 if Dragon fang is purchased). Dragonflight requires the Dragonflight and/or Reality Bending Auras to be active.
   9. Muridal, Spirit of Labor multiplies CpC by 1.15/1.1/1.05 (Diamond/Ruby/Jade), but also multiplies CpS by 0.97/0.98/0.99, which affects the amount of cookies gained from the mouse upgrades. Because of this, it is not included in the max CpS calculation below.
   10. Godzamok, Spirit of Ruin multiplies CpC by 1.01/1.005/1.0025 (Diamond/Ruby/Jade) for 10 seconds, depending on the numbers of buildings sold. Because of the impracticality of it (for the most part), it is not included in the max CpS calculation below.
4. The Wrath Cookie outcome Cursed Finger sets CpS to 0 for ten seconds, but each click is worth an amount equal to ten seconds of normal (unwithered) production. The other CpC upgrades have no effect on Cursed Finger CpC.

Max CpC = (2³ + (N - C) × 3,200,000,000,000 + CpS × 0.15) × 1.1³ × 2 × 1.03 × 1.055 /click

Where:
N – total number of buildings;
C – number of Cursors;
CpS - cookies per second.

Upgrades

Clicking Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Plastic mouse	1,000 hand-made cookies	50,000	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "Slightly squeaky."	75
	Iron mouse	100,000 hand-made cookies	5 million	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "Click like it's 1,349!"	76
	Titanium mouse	10 million hand-made cookies	500 million	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "Heavy, but powerful."	77
	Adamantium mouse	1 billion hand-made cookies	50 billion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "You could cut diamond with these."	78
	Unobtainium mouse	100 billion hand-made cookies	5 trillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "These nice mice should suffice."	119
	Eludium mouse	10 trillion hand-made cookies	500 trillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "I rodent do that if I were you."	190
	Wishalloy mouse	1 quadrillion hand-made cookies	50 quadrillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "Clicking is fine and dandy, but don't smash your mouse over it. Get your game on. Go play."	191
	Fantasteel mouse	100 quadrillion hand-made cookies	5 quintillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "You could be clicking using your touchpad and we'd be none the wiser."	366
	Nevercrack mouse	10 quintillion hand-made cookies	500 quintillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "How much beefier can you make a mouse until it's considered a rat?"	367
	Armythril mouse	1 sextillion hand-made cookies	50 sextillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "This one takes about 53 people to push it around and another 48 to jump down on the button and trigger a click. You could say it's got some heft to it."	427
	Technobsidian mouse	100 sextillion hand-made cookies	5 septillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "A highly advanced mouse of sophisticated design. Only one thing on its mind : to click."	460
	Plasmarble mouse	10 septillion hand-made cookies	500 septillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "A shifting blur in the corner of your eye, this mouse can trigger a flurry of clicks when grazed by even the slightest breeze."	461
	Miraculite mouse	1 octillion hand-made cookies	50 octillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS "Composed of a material that neither science nor philosophy is equipped to conceptualize. And boy, does it ever click."	661
	Aetherice mouse	100 octillion hand-made cookies	5 nonillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS "Made from a substance impossible to manufacture, only obtained through natural happenstance; its properties bewilder even the most precise measuring instruments."	765
	Omniplast mouse	10 nonillion hand-made cookies	500 nonillion	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS."This mouse is, by virtue of the strange elements that make it up, present in every position in space simultaneously, in a manner; this alleviates its owner from the need to move it around, redirecting all such kinetic power to the intensity of its clicks."	874
	Fortune #104	Random fortune from news ticker	86,400 x CpS (Max: 7.778 duodecillion)	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS. "Remember to stay in touch."	642

Cursor Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Reinforced index finger	Own 1 cursor	100	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "prod prod"	0
	Carpal tunnel prevention cream	Own 1 cursor	500	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "it... it hurts to click..."	1
	Ambidextrous	Own 10 cursors	10,000	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "Look ma, both hands!"	2
	Thousand fingers	Own 25 cursors	100,000	The mouse and cursors gain +0.1 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickity"	3
	Million fingers	Own 50 cursors	10 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 5. "clickityclickity"	4
	Billion fingers	Own 100 cursors	100 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 10. "clickityclickityclickity"	5
	Trillion fingers	Own 150 cursors	1 billion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "clickityclickityclickityclickity"	6
	Quadrillion fingers	Own 200 cursors	10 billion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "clickityclickityclickityclickityclick"	43
	Quintillion fingers	Own 250 cursors	10 trillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "man, just go click click click click click, it’s real easy, man."	82
	Sextillion fingers	Own 300 cursors	10 quadrillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "sometimes things just click"	109
	Septillion fingers	Own 350 cursors	10 quintillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "[cursory flavor text]"	188
	Octillion fingers	Own 400 cursors	10 sextillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20.. "Turns out you can quite put your finger on it."	189
	Nonillion fingers	Own 450 cursors	10 septillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "Only for the freakiest handshakes."	660
	Decillion fingers	Own 500 cursors	10 octillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "If you still can't quite put your finger on it, you must not be trying very hard."	764
	Undecillion fingers	Own 550 cursors	10 nonillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "Whatever you touch turns to dough in your clutch."	873

Miscellaneous Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Dragon claw	Random drop from petting Krumblor	1,800 x CpS (x0.1 if max level dragon)	Clicks are +3% more powerful. Cost scales with CpS, but 10 times cheaper with a fully-trained dragon. "Will grow back in a few days' time. A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, from the middle toe. So you know, try to show a little respect."	649
	Santa's helpers	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Clicking is 10% more powerful. Cost scales with Santa level. "Some choose to help hamburger; some choose to help you. To each their own, I guess."	164
	Cookie egg	"Rare" egg (see Probabilities)	999 x 3E	Clicking is 10% more powerful. Cost scales with how many eggs you own. "The shell appears to be chipped. I wonder what's inside this one!"	225
	Halo gloves (heavenly upgrade)	"Starter kit" purchased	55,555	Clicks are 10% more powerful. "Smite that cookie."	290
	Aura gloves (heavenly upgrade)	"Halo gloves" purchased	555.556 million	Cursor levels boost clicks by 5% each (up to level 10) "Try not to high-five anyone wearing these. You don't want that mess on your hands."	719
	Luminous gloves (heavenly upgrade)	"Aura gloves" purchased	55.556 billion	Aura gloves are now effective up to cursor level 20. "These help power your clicks to absurd levels, but they're also quite handy when you want to light up darkness on your way back from Glove World."	720
	Unshackled cursors (heavenly upgrade)	"Unshackled flavor" purchased	15 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 25. "These hands tell a story."	768

Achievements

Clicking Achievements

The main achievements related to the big cookie are the ones for cookies baked through clicking.

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Clicktastic	Make 1,000 cookies from clicking.	30
	Clickathlon	Make 100,000 cookies from clicking.	31
	Clickolympics	Make 10 million cookies from clicking.	32
	Clickorama	Make 1 billion cookies from clicking.	33
	Clickasmic	Make 100 billion cookies from clicking.	100
	Clickageddon	Make 10 trillion cookies from clicking.	145
	Clicknarok	Make 1 quadrillion cookies from clicking.	146
	Clickastrophe	Make 100 quadrillion cookies from clicking.	244
	Clickataclysm	Make 10 quintillion cookies from clicking.	245
	The ultimate clickdown	Make 1 sextillion cookies from clicking. "(of ultimate destiny.)"	337
	All the other kids with the pumped up clicks	Make 100 sextillion cookies from clicking.	376
	One...more...click...	Make 10 septillion cookies from clicking.	377
	Clickety split	Make 1 octillion cookies from clicking.	473
	Ain't that a click in the head	Make 100 octillion cookies from clicking.	574
	What's not clicking	Make 10 nonillion cookies from clicking.	640

Miscellaneous Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Neverclick	Make 1 million cookies by only having clicked 15 times.	29
	Uncanny clicker	Click really, really fast. "Well I'll be!"	71
	True Neverclick (shadow achievement)	Make 1 million cookies with no cookie clicks. "This kinda defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it?"	78

Trivia

• Cookies per click can never go below zero.

References

• The "The ultimate clickdown" achievement is a reference to the song "The ultimate showdown" by Neil Cicierega (Lemon Demon) released in 2005.
• The "All the other kids with their pumped up clicks" achievement is a reference to the song "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People released in 2010.
• The "Ain't that a click in the head" achievement is a reference to the song "Ain't that a kick in the head" by Dean Martin released in 1960.