What is Exiled Exchange 2?
Definition & positioning
Exiled Exchange 2 is a free, open-source price-check overlay built for Path of Exile 2. When you hover an item in-game and copy it, it parses the text and instantly shows live market prices in a transparent overlay on top of the game. It is the de-facto community price checker for PoE2, and the recognized successor to Awakened PoE Trade (APT), the popular PoE1 overlay that the same community of contributors moved on from once Path of Exile 2 arrived.
To be precise about names: Exiled Exchange 2 (sometimes searched as exiled exchange, exile exchange 2, or the no-space variant exiled exchange2) refers specifically to the PoE2-era tool. This site is an unofficial community fan site that documents it — we are not the developers and not affiliated with Grinding Gear Games.
How it works — clipboard, not memory
The single most important thing to understand about Exiled Exchange 2 is how it reads your items. It does not read Path of Exile 2’s process memory, does not inject code into the game, and does not hook any game functions. Instead, it relies entirely on the clipboard:
- You hover an item in PoE2 and press
Ctrl+C. The game copies a structured text description of that item to your system clipboard — exactly the same thing that happens when you copy text in any other app. - It watches the clipboard, parses that text, and identifies the item and its modifiers.
- It then fetches live pricing from public community sources (such as poe.ninja) and renders the result as a transparent overlay.
Because the only thing it touches is text you explicitly copied, it behaves like any ordinary desktop application reading the clipboard. There is a separate optional OCR mode for the few UI states where the clipboard does not yield parseable text, but the core loop never touches game memory. This is the same clipboard-first design philosophy that long-established overlay tools rely on.
Relationship to Awakened PoE Trade
Awakened PoE Trade (APT) is the well-known PoE1 price-check overlay. APT does not support Path of Exile 2 — its maintainer has stated this publicly, and development for PoE1 continues separately. Exiled Exchange 2 is the community successor that carries the same clipboard-overlay idea into the PoE2 era, with an actively maintained codebase targeting PoE2’s item format and trade ecosystem. If you searched for “awakened poe trade for poe 2,” Exiled Exchange 2 is the answer.
Features
- Price Check — instant overlay valuation from the clipboard
- poe.ninja Trends — live currency and item trend data inline
- Currency Exchange — find the best exchange ratios for your trades
- Map Search — search and price-check maps and their modifiers
- XP Tracker — track experience gains and leveling progress
- OCR Mode — image-based reading for UI states the clipboard cannot parse
Will I get banned?
Honest answer: using the tool is not risk-free in an absolute sense, but the risk is low and well-understood. It reads the clipboard (text you copied) and draws a transparent overlay — the same general approach used by accepted community price-checking tools for years. It does not read game memory, automate gameplay, or interact with the PoE2 client beyond what you copy yourself.
We are not aware of bans issued specifically for using it, and nothing about its design is more aggressive than other widely-used overlays. That said, any third-party overlay is ultimately used at your own risk, and only Grinding Gear Games can make definitive statements about their enforcement. For the official position, check GGG’s terms of service and our expanded FAQ. We do not promise “zero risk,” and you should treat any tool that does with suspicion.
Platform support
Exiled Exchange 2 runs on Windows 10/11 and Linux. It is a desktop application you run alongside Path of Exile 2 — there is no in-game plugin and no web version.
Installation overview
Installing Exiled Exchange 2 takes a couple of minutes: grab the latest compiled release, extract it, and run the executable alongside PoE2. The compiled release is published only on the official GitHub Releases — this site hosts no binaries. For the full step-by-step, system requirements, and safety tips, see the download page.