Horizon Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 52 gold entries. It costs $1.47; opening it with the key comes to $4.11. The expected value of the contents is $1.89 — a 45.9% unboxing ROI, or 49.5% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $4.11 and returns $1.89 on average — a 54.1% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.40: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 64% 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
+9.8%price over 2 weeks
627live listings in our DB
$98.98buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $98.98 — the price of 24.1 openings at $4.11 each. The priciest is Desert Eagle | Code Red at $39.38, the cheapest is Tec-9 | Snek-9 at $0.18.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $4.11 ($1.47 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $1.89 — a 45.9% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 7.7%.
How much does it cost to open Horizon Case?
$4.11: the case itself is $1.47 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Horizon Case?
The median single opening returns $0.40 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $4.11 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 45.9% to 49.5%.
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 $1,608.
Where is Horizon Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $1.47 on Skinport; the highest we track is $2.58 — a 76% 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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