Gallery Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 13 gold entries. It costs $0.54; opening it with the key comes to $3.38. The expected value of the contents is $1.15 — a 34.0% unboxing ROI, or 36.7% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $3.38 and returns $1.15 on average — a 66.0% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.25: 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.
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More facts about Gallery Case
October 3, 2024release date · 2 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−8.5%price over 2 weeks
8,800live listings in our DB
$75.50buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $75.50 — the price of 22.4 openings at $3.38 each. The priciest is M4A1-S | Vaporwave at $34.87, the cheapest is MP5-SD | Statics at $0.14.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $3.38 ($0.54 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $1.15 — a 34.0% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.0%.
How much does it cost to open Gallery Case?
$3.38: the case itself is $0.54 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Gallery Case?
The median single opening returns $0.25 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $3.38 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $1.17.
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 Gallery Case ROI rises from 34.0% to 36.7%.
What are the knife odds in Gallery Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 13 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $1,320.
Where is Gallery Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.54 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $1.28 — a 137% 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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