Snakebite Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $0.26; opening it with the key comes to $3.09. The expected value of the contents is $1.11 — a 35.9% unboxing ROI, or 36.5% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $3.09 and returns $1.11 on average — a 64.1% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.24: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 92% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Snakebite Case came from
More facts about Snakebite Case
May 3, 2021release date · 5 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−19.0%price over 2 weeks
45,416live listings in our DB
$63.11buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $63.11 — the price of 20.4 openings at $3.09 each. The priciest is USP-S | The Traitor at $25.20, the cheapest is SG 553 | Heavy Metal at $0.16.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $3.09 ($0.26 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $1.11 — a 35.9% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 4.3%.
How much does it cost to open Snakebite Case?
$3.09: the case itself is $0.26 (cheapest on LIS-SKINS) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Snakebite Case?
The median single opening returns $0.24 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $3.09 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $0.85.
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 Snakebite Case ROI rises from 35.9% to 36.5%.
What are the knife odds in Snakebite 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 $1,210.
Where is Snakebite Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.26 on LIS-SKINS; the highest we track is $0.74 — a 185% spread between markets.
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