$12.99 is the typical KFC fried chicken price; the section runs from $2.79 to $50.19.
KFC fried chicken prices run from $2.79 for a single wing to $50.19 for the dearest sixteen-piece meal reading, with $12.99 the typical figure across the section. Nineteen items sit in this list and fifteen carry a recorded price. Chicken-only buckets are the cleanest comparison: eight pieces at $21.99, twelve between $28.99 and $29.99, sixteen at $34.99. Per piece that ladder falls from about $2.75 to roughly $2.19.
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What you need
6 itemsKFC fried chicken prices and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Piece Fried Chicken Bucket Meal | $29.99 | $20.00 – $36.23 | — |
| 8 Piece Chicken Bucket (chicken only) | $21.99 | $21.99 – $22.99 | — |
| 12 Piece Chicken Meal | varies | $29.99 – $39.99 | — |
| 12 Piece Chicken Bucket (chicken only) | varies | $28.99 – $29.99 | — |
| 16 Piece Chicken Meal | $38.99 or $47.99 | $35.00 – $50.19 | — |
| 16 Piece Chicken Bucket (chicken only) | $34.99 | — | — |
| A La Carte Breast | $4.99 | — | — |
| A La Carte Thigh | $4.49 | — | — |
| A La Carte Drum | $4.49 | — | — |
| A La Carte Wing | $2.79 | — | — |
| 2 Piece Combo | $8.89 | — | — |
| 3 Piece Chicken Combo | $11.19 | — | — |
| 4 Piece Chicken Combo | $12.99 | — | — |
| 3 Piece Box | $12.99 | — | — |
| 1 Piece Fill Up | not published | — | — |
| 2 Piece Fill Up | not published | — | — |
| Build A Bucket 8 Piece Meal | not published | — | — |
| Double Mash Meal | not published | — | — |
| Meal For Two 5 Piece Chicken | $15.00 | — | — |
If something goes wrong
Why is the bucket price at my restaurant higher than the one listed here?
- Cause
- Every figure in the grid comes from published US price listings, and those listings describe a national picture that no single restaurant has to match. Franchise operators set their own menu prices.
- Fix
- Treat the recorded band as the range to expect rather than a quote. Select your restaurant on the company's ordering site and the live figure appears there.
Why does the 12 piece bucket show a range instead of one price?
- Cause
- Two readings gave $28.99 and two gave $29.99, so no single figure earned the label of typical. The table shows the band rather than picking a winner.
- Fix
- Budget at the top of the band. A dollar either way on a twelve-piece bucket is small relative to how far the meal rows move.
Where are the calorie figures for the fried chicken menu?
- Cause
- The company's nutrition guide, allergen page and individual item pages all render in the browser rather than in the page source, so no calorie figure could be read from them.
- Fix
- Ask in the restaurant for the printed nutrition sheet, or open the nutrition guide in a normal browser session where the page builds itself.
Why does the 8 piece meal appear at three different prices?
- Cause
- Published listings gave $20.00, $29.99 and $36.23 for the same eight pieces with two large sides and four biscuits. That is an 81 per cent spread on one configuration.
- Fix
- Use $29.99 as the working figure; it recurred most often. Confirm before ordering, because the top reading sits over $6 above it.
How the fried chicken list prices out
Nineteen items carry the Fried Chicken label, and the label is KFC's own: the list here is built from the company's published sitemap, so the names and the section boundaries are first-party even though none of the prices are. Fifteen items have a recorded figure. Four have none at all.
The bucket ladder, priced per piece
Chicken-only buckets are the one part of this menu where the arithmetic behaves. Eight pieces were recorded at $21.99, twelve in a band of $28.99 to $29.99, and sixteen at $34.99. Divide each by its piece count and the ladder reads about $2.75, then $2.42 to $2.50, then $2.19. Sixteen pieces therefore cost roughly 56 cents less per piece than eight, which across a full bucket works out at close to $9 saved against buying two eights. Hardly anyone prints that calculation, and it is the only real reason to care which size goes in the boot.
Where the readings come apart
Meal rows behave far worse than bucket rows. Eight pieces with two large sides and four biscuits was published at $20.00, at $29.99 and at $36.23, a spread of 81 per cent on one product. Twelve pieces with sides ran $29.99 to $39.99. Sixteen produced four separate figures between $35.00 and $50.19, with $38.99 and $47.99 tying for the middle, which is why the grid above prints both rather than inventing an average. A $15 gap on a family order is not a rounding difference. It is the difference between two plausible dinners.
Single cuts, small combos and the gaps
A la carte pricing sorts by cut rather than by weight. Breast came in at $4.99, thigh and drum at $4.49 apiece, wing at $2.79, which is the cheapest recorded figure anywhere in this section. Assemble eight singles as two of each cut and the bill reaches $33.52, against $21.99 for the eight-piece bucket.
Combos climb in a flattening curve. Two pieces with sides were recorded at $8.89, three at $11.19, four at $12.99, so the third piece costs $2.30 and the fourth $1.80 and both undercut every a la carte cut. Meal For Two with five pieces sits at $15.00, a round number that reads like a promotion rather than a standing menu price. The 3 Piece Box matches the 4 Piece Chicken Combo exactly at $12.99, meaning a fourth piece is free depending on which name you order under.
Four items carry no price at all: 1 Piece Fill Up, 2 Piece Fill Up, Build A Bucket 8 Piece Meal and Double Mash Meal. Calories are absent for a different reason. The nutrition guide could not be read, because it builds itself in the browser and serves nothing countable, which is a gap in what could be extracted rather than a statement about what the company holds.
Fried Chicken at a glance
- Items listed
- 19
- Cheapest recorded
- $2.79
- Dearest recorded
- $50.19
- Typical
- $12.99
Questions people ask
What is the cheapest KFC fried chicken item?
A single wing at $2.79 is the lowest figure recorded anywhere in this section. Thigh and drum follow at $4.49 each, then breast at $4.99. Below those, nothing on the fried chicken list has a recorded price at all.
How much does a KFC bucket cost?
Chicken-only buckets were recorded at $21.99 for eight pieces, $28.99 to $29.99 for twelve and $34.99 for sixteen. Add sides and biscuits and the same counts become meals, which run far wider: $20.00 to $36.23 for the eight and $35.00 to $50.19 for the sixteen.
Which bucket size gives the best value per piece?
Sixteen pieces at $34.99 works out at roughly $2.19 each, against $2.42 to $2.50 for the twelve and $2.75 for the eight. The largest chicken-only bucket is the cheapest per piece of the three.
Why do so many items show no calories?
Company nutrition pages could not be read. The menu, the nutrition guide and the allergen page all build themselves in the browser and return no figures, so nothing here is presented as a company calorie count.
Is this page an official KFC price list?
No. It is an independent comparison built from published US price listings, with the item names and section structure taken from KFC's own published sitemap. The company sets its own prices and is not involved in this page.
Can this site tell me the price at my local KFC?
Not to the cent. No price appears on the company's site until a restaurant is selected, and operators price differently, so a local figure can only come from that restaurant. Use the bands here to spot a quote that looks wrong.