Snakebite Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 24 gold entries. It costs $0.40; opening it with the key comes to $3.04. The expected value of the contents is $1.27 — a 41.6% unboxing ROI, or 47.4% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $3.04 and returns $1.27 on average — a 58.4% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.24: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 87% 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
+3.4%price over 2 weeks
7,436live listings in our DB
$70.58buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $70.58 — the price of 23.2 openings at $3.04 each. The priciest is USP-S | The Traitor at $28.52, the cheapest is M249 | O.S.I.P.R. at $0.15.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $3.04 ($0.40 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $1.27 — a 41.6% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 6.8%.
How much does it cost to open Snakebite Case?
$3.04: the case itself is $0.40 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 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 $3.04 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $1.18.
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 41.6% to 47.4%.
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 $1,190.
Where is Snakebite Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $0.40 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $0.74 — a 85% spread between markets.
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