CS:GO Weapon Case is a CS2 case with 9 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $103; opening it with the key comes to $106. The expected value of the contents is $34.30 — a 32.4% unboxing ROI.
Takeaway: an opening costs $106 and returns $34.30 on average — a 67.6% long-run loss. The median opening returns $11.78: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 2% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
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More facts about CS:GO Weapon Case
August 14, 2013release date · 13 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+9.4%price over 2 weeks
310live listings in our DB
$1,033buy all 9 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 9 regular skins cost $1,033 — the price of 9.8 openings at $106 each. The priciest is AWP | Lightning Strike at $454, the cheapest is MP7 | Skulls at $9.59.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $106 ($103 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $34.30 — a 32.4% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.2%.
How much does it cost to open CS:GO Weapon Case?
$106: the case itself is $103 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from CS:GO Weapon Case?
The median single opening returns $11.78 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $106 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $95.48.
What are the knife odds in CS:GO Weapon Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 65 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $41,369.
Where is CS:GO Weapon Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $103 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $176 — a 70% spread between markets.
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