CS:GO Weapon Case 3 is a CS2 case with 12 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $11.61; opening it with the key comes to $14.45. The expected value of the contents is $7.97 — a 55.1% unboxing ROI.
Takeaway: an opening costs $14.45 and returns $7.97 on average — a 44.9% long-run loss. The median opening returns $3.67: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 20% 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
−2.3%price over 2 weeks
237live listings in our DB
$148buy all 12 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 12 regular skins cost $148 — the price of 10.2 openings at $14.45 each. The priciest is CZ75-Auto | Victoria at $69.45, 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 $14.45 ($11.61 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $7.97 — a 55.1% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 7.9%.
How much does it cost to open CS:GO Weapon Case 3?
$14.45: the case itself is $11.61 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.84 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 $3.67 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $14.45 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $13.86.
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 $5,648.
Where is CS:GO Weapon Case 3 cheapest?
Right now the low is $11.61 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $18.18 — a 57% spread between markets.
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