Kilowatt Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 13 gold entries. It costs $0.07; opening it with the key comes to $2.91. The expected value of the contents is $0.63 — a 21.7% unboxing ROI, or 30.3% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $2.91 and returns $0.63 on average — a 78.3% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.05: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 98% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Kilowatt Case came from
More facts about Kilowatt Case
February 6, 2024release date · 3 yr ago
in drop poolweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−15.8%price over 2 weeks
28,270live listings in our DB
$57.89buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $57.89 — the price of 19.9 openings at $2.91 each. The priciest is AK-47 | Inheritance at $26.40, the cheapest is UMP-45 | Motorized at $0.02.
The case is in the weekly drop pool, so supply is replenished every week — too early to bet on price growth.
No. An opening costs $2.91 ($0.07 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $0.63 — a 21.7% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 2.7%.
How much does it cost to open Kilowatt Case?
$2.91: the case itself is $0.07 (cheapest on BUFF163) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Kilowatt Case?
The median single opening returns $0.05 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $2.91 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $0.45.
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 Kilowatt Case ROI rises from 21.7% to 30.3%.
What are the knife odds in Kilowatt 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 $1,136.
Where is Kilowatt Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.07 on BUFF163; the highest we track is $0.24 — a 243% spread between markets.
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