Glove Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $11.75; opening it with the key comes to $14.39. The expected value of the contents is $8.37 — a 58.2% unboxing ROI, or 59.7% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $14.39 and returns $8.37 on average — a 41.8% long-run loss. The median opening returns $1.16: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 18% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Glove Case came from
More facts about Glove Case
November 28, 2016release date · 10 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+10.4%price over 2 weeks
6,587live listings in our DB
$443buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $443 — the price of 30.8 openings at $14.39 each. The priciest is SSG 08 | Dragonfire at $228, the cheapest is Galil AR | Black Sand at $0.29.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $14.39 ($11.75 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $8.37 — a 58.2% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.9%.
How much does it cost to open Glove Case?
$14.39: the case itself is $11.75 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Glove Case?
The median single opening returns $1.16 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $14.39 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $8.23.
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 Glove Case ROI rises from 58.2% to 59.7%.
What are the knife odds in Glove Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 24 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $5,628.
Where is Glove Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $11.75 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $18.47 — a 57% 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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