Kilowatt Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 13 gold entries. It costs $0.13; opening it with the key comes to $2.77. The expected value of the contents is $0.72 — a 25.8% unboxing ROI, or 36.8% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $2.77 and returns $0.72 on average — a 74.2% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.05: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 95% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
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More facts about Kilowatt Case
February 6, 2024release date · 3 yr ago
in drop poolweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+1.3%price over 2 weeks
67,756live listings in our DB
$61.91buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $61.91 — the price of 22.3 openings at $2.77 each. The priciest is AK-47 | Inheritance at $28.01, the cheapest is Dual Berettas | Hideout at $0.04.
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 $2.77 ($0.13 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $0.72 — a 25.8% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 4.2%.
How much does it cost to open Kilowatt Case?
$2.77: the case itself is $0.13 (cheapest on Market.CSGO) plus the $2.64 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 $2.77 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $0.59.
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 25.8% to 36.8%.
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 $1,083.
Where is Kilowatt Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.13 on Market.CSGO; the highest we track is $0.24 — a 89% spread between markets.
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