Glove Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $8.82; opening it with the key comes to $11.66. The expected value of the contents is $6.43 — a 55.2% unboxing ROI, or 56.6% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $11.66 and returns $6.43 on average — a 44.8% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.78: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 24% 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
−2.1%price over 2 weeks
7,918live listings in our DB
$385buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $385 — the price of 33.1 openings at $11.66 each. The priciest is SSG 08 | Dragonfire at $187, the cheapest is Galil AR | Black Sand at $0.31.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $11.66 ($8.82 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $6.43 — a 55.2% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.9%.
How much does it cost to open Glove Case?
$11.66: the case itself is $8.82 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Glove Case?
The median single opening returns $0.78 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $11.66 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $5.39.
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 55.2% to 56.6%.
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 $4,557.
Where is Glove Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $8.82 on Skinport; the highest we track is $18.47 — a 109% 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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