Chroma 3 Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $2.97; opening it with the key comes to $5.81. The expected value of the contents is $2.60 — a 44.7% unboxing ROI, or 49.4% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $5.81 and returns $2.60 on average — a 55.3% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.28: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 49% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Chroma 3 Case came from
More facts about Chroma 3 Case
April 27, 2016release date · 10 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−4.6%price over 2 weeks
858live listings in our DB
$168buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $168 — the price of 29.0 openings at $5.81 each. The priciest is M4A1-S | Chantico's Fire at $99.47, the cheapest is MP9 | Bioleak at $0.03.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $5.81 ($2.97 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $2.60 — a 44.7% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 4.3%.
How much does it cost to open Chroma 3 Case?
$5.81: the case itself is $2.97 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Chroma 3 Case?
The median single opening returns $0.28 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $5.81 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $1.30.
What does the "with contracts" column mean?
Some drops are worth more as trade-up contract inputs than sold outright. Counting the better of "sell" vs "feed into a contract", the Chroma 3 Case ROI rises from 44.7% to 49.4%.
What are the knife odds in Chroma 3 Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 60 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $2,270.
Where is Chroma 3 Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $2.97 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $4.93 — a 66% spread between markets.
Prices are aggregated from 11 marketplaces into our own database and refresh automatically; USD values are converted from RUB at the current central-bank rate. CS2Price does not sell items — we compare prices and compute profitable trade-up contracts. Not affiliated with Valve.
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