Clutch Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $0.49; opening it with the key comes to $3.13. The expected value of the contents is $0.94 — a 30.0% unboxing ROI, or 36.8% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $3.13 and returns $0.94 on average — a 70.0% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.13: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 84% 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
+1.2%price over 2 weeks
3,114live listings in our DB
$63.48buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $63.48 — the price of 20.3 openings at $3.13 each. The priciest is MP7 | Bloodsport at $27.93, the cheapest is XM1014 | Oxide Blaze 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 $3.13 ($0.49 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $0.94 — a 30.0% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 3.0%.
How much does it cost to open Clutch Case?
$3.13: the case itself is $0.49 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Clutch Case?
The median single opening returns $0.13 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $3.13 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $0.76.
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 30.0% to 36.8%.
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 $1,225.
Where is Clutch Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.49 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $1.00 — a 104% spread between markets.
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