Chroma 3 Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $3.05; opening it with the key comes to $5.69. The expected value of the contents is $2.98 — a 52.3% unboxing ROI, or 63.8% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $5.69 and returns $2.98 on average — a 47.7% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.28: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 46% 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
+5.3%price over 2 weeks
456live listings in our DB
$187buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $187 — the price of 32.9 openings at $5.69 each. The priciest is M4A1-S | Chantico's Fire at $115, 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 $5.69 ($3.05 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $2.98 — a 52.3% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.1%.
How much does it cost to open Chroma 3 Case?
$5.69: the case itself is $3.05 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.64 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 $5.69 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $1.84.
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 52.3% to 63.8%.
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 $2,226.
Where is Chroma 3 Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $3.05 on Skinport; the highest we track is $4.93 — a 62% 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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