{"id":2039144,"date":"2026-07-11T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2039144"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:25:00","slug":"heres-how-much-the-2021-jeep-gladiator-has-depreciated-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2039144","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How Much The 2021 Jeep Gladiator Has Depreciated In 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jeep Gladiator returned for the\u00a02020 model year, reviving a truck nameplate Jeep hadn’t used in decades and finally giving the Wrangler platform a proper pickup bed. It kept the removable doors, fold-down windshield, and soft or hard-top options that make the Wrangler a favorite among off-roaders, then added a 7,650-pound tow rating and an open bed on top of that formula.<\/p>\n

That combination made the Gladiator one of Jeep’s most-hyped launches in years, and it quickly built a following among buyers. That hype didn’t always translate to showroom traffic, though \u2014 sales cooled off within a few years of launch, and by\u00a02023, the Jeep Gladiator wasn’t selling well enough to avoid steep dealer discounts<\/a>, which made it a genuinely good deal at the time. Five years later, the depreciation numbers are mixed, but not bad, relatively speaking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Kelley Blue Book<\/a>, used 2021 Gladiators today range from about $25,000 for a California Edition to $32,800 for a Rubicon, with the range-topping High Altitude trim down to roughly $28,800 from its original $53,015 sticker \u2014 a drop of nearly 46%. Average new pricing for the Gladiator sits at $50,720, and when\u00a0CarEdge<\/a>\u00a0assumed a selling price of $46,890, they put the five-year loss at $17,312 (37%), taking the truck down to roughly $29,578.<\/p>\n

Separately, iSeeCars<\/a> \u2014 also measuring a full five-year window \u2014 has the Gladiator holding onto 67.7% of its value at that mark, meaning a 32.3% loss, which is only slightly better than the pickup segment’s 32.9% average. Between CarEdge and iSeeCars, the two outlets actually measuring five years land within 4.7 points of each other, putting real-world five-year depreciation at roughly 34.65%. As seen in KBB’s case, higher-spec, better-equipped trims have fallen further. So does that make a used 2021 Gladiator a smart buy in 2026?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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KBB, CarEdge, and iSeeCars all measure depreciation differently. KBB’s own pricing breakdown shows the spread by trim rather than one blanket figure: a base California Edition sells for around $25,000 today, while a Rubicon is cited as commanding $32,800. Off-road-focused trims tend to hold a higher dollar value used, though that gap partially reflects a higher starting price to begin with, not necessarily better value retention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CarEdge, on the other hand, builds its number from a broad mix of data sources folded into one composite estimate for a typically-equipped Gladiator: a loss of $17,312 against a $46,890 starting price, or roughly 37%. iSeeCars takes yet another angle, pulling from over 15 million vehicle sales records and simply tracking the gap between what a model sold for new and what it sells for used once it hits five years old.<\/p>\n

Real-world listings echo that the Gladiator isn’t cratering like plenty of other trucks. A scan of CarGurus<\/a> shows 4,836 2021 Gladiators listed nationwide, with an average asking price of $31,912 \u2014 close to what KBB and CarEdge project.<\/p>\n

Jeep special editions complicate the picture<\/a> further. Take the Gladiator’s 85th Anniversary trim that costs around $48,295, including destination. A limited-run trim like that doesn’t map cleanly onto KBB’s Sport S, Willys, or Rubicon buckets, so its actual resale behavior likely won’t track those figures either.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Gladiator shares its bones with the Wrangler, so it’s worth checking whether that family resemblance carries over to resale. And the answer to that question is, well, not fully.\u00a0CarEdge<\/a> has the Wrangler starting around $48,226 new and holding onto $34,110 of that after five years \u2014 a 29% hit, smaller than the Gladiator’s roughly 37%.<\/p>\n

Our own breakdown of\u00a0a 2020 Wrangler’s five-year numbers<\/a> points in the same direction, with CarEdge and KBB both landing the SUV’s depreciation somewhere in the high-20s to low-30s percent range. So within Jeep’s own lineup, the open-top SUV appears to hold onto its value a bit better than the bed-equipped truck built from the same platform.<\/p>\n

Compared to rivals outside the Jeep family, the picture flips. A $46,897 Ford Ranger, per CarEdge<\/a>, is worth about $33,592 five years out \u2014 just a 28% drop. The\u00a0Toyota Tacoma does better still: starting at $44,395, it retains $34,806, a 22% loss. Both beat the Gladiator’s roughly 37%.\u00a0iSeeCars<\/a>‘ figures echo that gap, putting the Tacoma’s five-year loss at just 19.9%, compared to 32.3% for the Gladiator.<\/p>\n

So while the Gladiator (barely) beats the broader midsize pickup segment’s average, it trails its two closest rivals by a meaningful margin once compared model-to-model. Understandably, this does not have to influence the price you are going to pay, but it does show undeniable price trends on a larger market scale.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jeep Gladiator returned for the\u00a02020 model year, reviving a truck nameplate Jeep hadn’t used in decades and finally giving the Wrangler platform a proper pickup bed. It kept the removable doors, fold-down windshield, and soft or hard-top options that make the Wrangler a favorite among off-roaders, then added a 7,650-pound tow rating and an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,247],"class_list":["post-2039144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jalopnik-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}