GTA Online Kortz Center Heist: Payouts, Targets and How to Run It

The Kortz Center Heist is GTA Online's art-theft finale, live since 14 July 2026 as part of Title Update 1.73. You plan it from the Art Studio in one of your mansions, scope out the Kortz Center museum in Pacific Bluffs, and walk out with a priceless painting — alone, or with up to three other players. What sets it apart from earlier heists is the pay structure: one clean run per week earns the serious money, while repeating the same finale pays a fraction of the first attempt. It rewards a weekly ritual, not a grind.

What do you need before you can host it?

Two purchases, and neither is cheap. First, a mansion from the A Safehouse in the Hills update — any of the three will do. Second, the Art Studio expansion for that mansion, bought through Prix Luxury Real Estate for GTA$4,700,000, which adds the planning wall the heist runs from. Put together, the minimum cost of hosting is GTA$16,200,000: the Tongva Estate at GTA$11,500,000 plus the studio. Players who reached Elitist status in the Fine Art Collector programme get the studio for GTA$3,700,000 instead. The good news is that only the host needs any of this. Crew members you invite can join with no mansion and no studio, so a group only ever pays the entry cost once.

How does a Kortz Center run actually work?

It starts at home. In the Art Studio you meet Mr. Faber and Raf De Angelis, who set up the job, and the planning wall becomes your base for everything that follows. The first job is the scope out, and it is mandatory: you head to the Kortz Center, get into the Bell Building, reach the security office and upload your mansion AI so you can study the camera feeds. That recon reveals the week's primary target painting in the vault, along with the points of interest — there are four possible entry points to find, and a thorough scope out makes every later decision easier.

Preparation comes next, and there is plenty of it: 17 prep missions spread across five categories, covering entry gear, equipment and loadouts. You choose an approach — a stolen staff key card through the staff entrance suits a quiet run — and the optional preps that thin out the museum's security are generally worth the effort. The finale itself is an infiltration: get inside, deal with the laser-guarded vault, swap the primary painting for a forgery, and escape. Secondary artwork can be lifted along the way, but carry it carefully. Every hit you take knocks value off the loot in your bag, so a sloppy, bullet-riddled exit is quite literally expensive.

What does the Kortz Center Heist pay?

The primary target is a painting, it rotates each week, and its sale value goes to the host — there are no adjustable crew percentage cuts like the Casino Heist has. The headline money is the weekly first-completion bonus: reported first runs of the week have paid roughly GTA$1,218,000 to GTA$1,925,000 for the primary target depending on which painting is on the wall, with the launch target, a painting called La Dernière Débauche, sitting at the very top of that range. Add full bags of secondary loot and the bonuses below, and a documented solo Hard Mode run has paid GTA$1,809,000 in total.

Repeat runs are where expectations need managing. Once your first completion of the week is banked, the same finale pays a reported base of roughly GTA$304,500 to GTA$481,250, and repeat attempts carry a setup fee as well. Cooldowns apply too: around 144 minutes after a solo completion, 48 minutes after a group one. Rockstar does not publish an official payout table for the heist, so treat every figure here as a reported range rather than a promise — the week's painting and your own execution decide the final number.

What are the Elite Challenge and the Buyer's Request?

Two bonus layers sit on top of the base take. The Elite Challenge asks for four things in a single run: finish the finale in under 17 minutes, keep your shooting accuracy above 90 percent, lose less than GTA$15,000 in loot value, and complete the Buyer's Request list — a set of specific extra items your buyer wants lifted during the same visit. Elite pays GTA$50,000 on Normal mode and GTA$100,000 on Hard, and the Buyer's Request carries its own additional reward. It is a demanding combination that favours a rehearsed stealth route over improvisation: one loud firefight can sink your accuracy and your loot value at the same time.

How should you approach it each week?

Play it the way it is designed to be played. Make your first run of the week the good one — scope out thoroughly, pick preps that serve a single clear route, and resist filling your bag with secondary loot before you know whether the alarm is coming. Save the experimentation and the Elite attempts for when the route is familiar. If you can, bring at least one partner: some secondary targets need a second pair of hands, and a duo simply opens up more of the museum than a solo player can reach. Then, hard as it is, walk away until next week. The Kortz Center pays best to players who treat it as a weekly appointment rather than a job.