CS:GO Weapon Case 2 is a CS2 case with 12 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $21.78; opening it with the key comes to $24.42. The expected value of the contents is $15.38 — a 63.0% unboxing ROI, or 63.1% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $24.42 and returns $15.38 on average — a 37.0% long-run loss. The median opening returns $6.66: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 11% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where CS:GO Weapon Case 2 came from
More facts about CS:GO Weapon Case 2
November 6, 2013release date · 13 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+5.2%price over 2 weeks
64live listings in our DB
$279buy all 12 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 12 regular skins cost $279 — the price of 11.4 openings at $24.42 each. The priciest is SSG 08 | Blood in the Water at $85.00, the cheapest is SCAR-20 | Crimson Web at $2.26.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $24.42 ($21.78 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $15.38 — a 63.0% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 19.3%.
How much does it cost to open CS:GO Weapon Case 2?
$24.42: the case itself is $21.78 (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 2?
The median single opening returns $6.66 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $24.42 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $39.49.
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 CS:GO Weapon Case 2 ROI rises from 63.0% to 63.1%.
What are the knife odds in CS:GO Weapon Case 2?
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 $9,550.
Where is CS:GO Weapon Case 2 cheapest?
Right now the low is $21.78 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $36.22 — a 66% 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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