Let’s explore the best tanks you can buy for bonds, focusing on premium status and those in tiers 8 or 9.
Heavy Tanks
Tiger Maus
- Very good turret armor
- Solid gun
- Good enough gun handling
An all-around decent vehicle for making credits at tier 9. It has better turret armor than the Maus, which doesn’t make any sense at all. Gun with 246 mm of pen enables you to deal 520 damage consistently. It also does really well against tier 8s and 7s, which will have a hard time even penning your lower plate.
Mobility is limited, and your whole top deck can be overmatched easily by 121 mm guns and bigger.
Price: 11,000 Bonds
Rating: A Tier
Object 252U (Defender)
- Very good armor
- Hard-hitting gun with decent penetration
- Awful gun handling
Object 252U, or better known as the “Defender” is a tier 8 soviet heavy tank. When it was released, it was the best example of the pay-to-win tank, but it held up pretty well even to this date. It offers you a very dependable armor and a high-damage gun, which makes making trades straightforward.
You should do everything you can to improve its gun handling with crew skills and equipment, as this is the main downside of the tank. It only has 6 degrees of gun depression, so it is not very flexible on certain terrains either.
Price: 9,000 Bolds
Rating: A Tier
T26E5 (Patriot)
- Great turret armor
- Decent gun handling
- Solid mobility
If your main goal is to make a much credits as possible, Patriot may be the best tank in the game to do so. The reason is the low shell cost at only 255 credits a round with a really good standard penetration of 230 mm and DPM. Incredibly flexible tank with great turret and 10 degrees of gun depression.
It is worth investing in gun handling so you can snap shot better. The downside of the tank is the low alpha damage of only 240, so almost all the heavies at the same tier will outtrade you easily.
Price: 8,000 Bonds
Rating: A Tier
Medium tanks
122 TM
- Amazing gun
- Dependable turret armor
- Flexible with good gun depression
A pretty unique medium in the game because it gives up all the DPM for a tier 9 gun. It has a very accurate and hard-hitting gun, and you have enough gun depression also to make use of the great turret armor. It does get crushed in 1v1 scenarios because of the reload time. You should focus on long-range engagements and on supporting your allies.
Price: 8,000 Bonds
Rating: S Tier
CS-52 Lis
- Great gun
- Decent turret armor
- Weak standard penetration
A great all-around medium tank at tier 8. It packs a good, accurate gun with very good gun handling, solid mobility, and a turret that can pull quite a few bounces from the equal and lower-tier opponents. Shells are quite cheap, coming at 480 credits for 320 alpha damage, so if you’ll be able to penetrate enemies consistently, it makes great profits.
What holds the tank back is the lackluster standard penetration at 208 mm, 7 degrees of gun depression, and low ammo capacity of only 35 rounds.
Price: 8,000 Bonds
Rating: A Tier
Pz. 58 – Mutz
- Good alpha damage
- Very good DPM
- Great accuracy
Quite recently, it got buffed significantly, increasing its mobility and, more importantly, its alpha damage. It went from 250 to 300. Keep in mind, the reload time stayed the same, so it currently has one of the best DPMs for a tier 8 medium. Shell cost is really low, only 300 credits per shot.
It has little to no armor, so the gameplay should be similar to a Leopard. Most of the time, you should do long-range engagements.
Price: 8,000 Bolds
Rating: A Tier
Light tanks
leKpz M 41 90 mm
- Great gun and DPM
- Very good top speed
- Bad camo rating
One of the best damage-dealing light tanks at tier 8, it packs a nice 90 mm with over 2,2k DPM and high penetration HE rounds for those glass cannon TDs and arty.
But it will get outmatched by most of the other light tanks when it comes to spotting duties, since it is a huge tank with a bad camo rating.
Price: 8,000 Bonds
Rating: B Tier
Tank Destroyers
SU-130PM
- Great 520 alpha
- Really good camo rating
- Good mobility
A very similar tank to the Scorpion, and people are divided on which tank is better since each of them has some advantages. SU is great, a tank though, you can be very impactful even against tier 10s with 520 alpha. It has a low profile, and it’s easy to stay hidden.
Just like SFAC and Scorpion, SU130 has no armor whatsoever; it’s especially vulnerable to HE rounds.
Price: 10,000 Bonds
Rating: A Tier
T-103
- Up to the mark DPM
- Respectable turret armor
- Horrible hull armor
A weird and very niche tier 8 tank destroyer, it is a sniper tank, but it has no camo rating since it’s huge. The gun is the only good aspect of this tank, although it’s nothing special. It hits hard enough with its 440 alpha and good penetration, Turret can pull off some bounces if they don’t shoot near the manlet or its huge weakspot at the top.
Price: 8,000 Bonds
Rating: B Tier
Check out also the best premium tanks in the game overall: https://permatracked.com/post/best-premium-tanks-in-2025-easy-credit-makers-world-of-tanks/
The rest of the tanks are average or below average, and I think it’s not worth spending bonds on them.
We will try our best to update this list whenever a new premium tank is released into the bond store that is better than the listed vehicles.
Good luck on the battlefield.
