CS:GO Weapon Case 3 is a CS2 case with 12 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $12.54; opening it with the key comes to $15.18. The expected value of the contents is $9.28 — a 61.1% unboxing ROI.
Takeaway: an opening costs $15.18 and returns $9.28 on average — a 38.9% long-run loss. The median opening returns $4.67: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 17% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
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February 12, 2014release date · 13 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+4.2%price over 2 weeks
154live listings in our DB
$156buy all 12 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 12 regular skins cost $156 — the price of 10.3 openings at $15.18 each. The priciest is CZ75-Auto | Victoria at $73.67, the cheapest is CZ75-Auto | Crimson Web at $2.28.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $15.18 ($12.54 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $9.28 — a 61.1% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 10.2%.
How much does it cost to open CS:GO Weapon Case 3?
$15.18: the case itself is $12.54 (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 3?
The median single opening returns $4.67 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $15.18 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $19.72.
What are the knife odds in CS:GO Weapon Case 3?
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 $5,937.
Where is CS:GO Weapon Case 3 cheapest?
Right now the low is $12.54 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $18.18 — a 45% spread between markets.
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