Chroma Case is a CS2 case with 14 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $4.28; opening it with the key comes to $6.92. The expected value of the contents is $3.84 — a 55.4% unboxing ROI, or 59.5% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $6.92 and returns $3.84 on average — a 44.6% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.73: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 38% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Chroma Case came from
More facts about Chroma Case
January 8, 2015release date · 12 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+4.6%price over 2 weeks
428live listings in our DB
$280buy all 14 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 14 regular skins cost $280 — the price of 40.4 openings at $6.92 each. The priciest is AWP | Man-o'-war at $117, the cheapest is MP9 | Deadly Poison at $0.32.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $6.92 ($4.28 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $3.84 — a 55.4% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 6.7%.
How much does it cost to open Chroma Case?
$6.92: the case itself is $4.28 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Chroma Case?
The median single opening returns $0.73 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $6.92 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $4.81.
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 Case ROI rises from 55.4% to 59.5%.
What are the knife odds in Chroma 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 $2,707.
Where is Chroma Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $4.28 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $7.17 — a 68% 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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