Clutch Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $0.38; opening it with the key comes to $3.22. The expected value of the contents is $0.81 — a 25.2% unboxing ROI, or 27.9% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $3.22 and returns $0.81 on average — a 74.8% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.14: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 88% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Clutch Case came from
More facts about Clutch Case
February 15, 2018release date · 9 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−7.1%price over 2 weeks
8,352live listings in our DB
$59.53buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $59.53 — the price of 18.5 openings at $3.22 each. The priciest is MP7 | Bloodsport at $25.00, the cheapest is P2000 | Urban Hazard at $0.05.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $3.22 ($0.38 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $0.81 — a 25.2% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 1.9%.
How much does it cost to open Clutch Case?
$3.22: the case itself is $0.38 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Clutch Case?
The median single opening returns $0.14 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $3.22 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $0.65.
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 Clutch Case ROI rises from 25.2% to 27.9%.
What are the knife odds in Clutch Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 24 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $1,257.
Where is Clutch Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.38 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $1.00 — a 163% 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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