Horizon Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 52 gold entries. It costs $1.32; opening it with the key comes to $4.16. The expected value of the contents is $1.70 — a 40.8% unboxing ROI, or 43.4% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $4.16 and returns $1.70 on average — a 59.2% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.37: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 68% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Horizon Case came from
More facts about Horizon Case
August 2, 2018release date · 8 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−5.3%price over 2 weeks
1,408live listings in our DB
$93.13buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $93.13 — the price of 22.4 openings at $4.16 each. The priciest is AK-47 | Neon Rider at $36.87, the cheapest is MP9 | Capillary at $0.20.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $4.16 ($1.32 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $1.70 — a 40.8% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 6.5%.
How much does it cost to open Horizon Case?
$4.16: the case itself is $1.32 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Horizon Case?
The median single opening returns $0.37 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $4.16 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $2.45.
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 Horizon Case ROI rises from 40.8% to 43.4%.
What are the knife odds in Horizon Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 52 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $1,625.
Where is Horizon Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $1.32 on Skinport; the highest we track is $2.58 — a 95% 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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