Spectrum 2 Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $2.64; opening it with the key comes to $5.28. The expected value of the contents is $2.60 — a 49.1% unboxing ROI, or 54.2% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $5.28 and returns $2.60 on average — a 50.9% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.27: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 50% 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 Spectrum 2 Case
September 14, 2017release date · 9 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+5.3%price over 2 weeks
1,659live listings in our DB
$228buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $228 — the price of 43.2 openings at $5.28 each. The priciest is P250 | See Ya Later at $98.39, the cheapest is G3SG1 | Hunter at $0.08.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $5.28 ($2.64 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $2.60 — a 49.1% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.2%.
How much does it cost to open Spectrum 2 Case?
$5.28: the case itself is $2.64 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Spectrum 2 Case?
The median single opening returns $0.27 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $5.28 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 Spectrum 2 Case ROI rises from 49.1% to 54.2%.
What are the knife odds in Spectrum 2 Case?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 60 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $2,066.
Where is Spectrum 2 Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $2.64 on Skinport; the highest we track is $4.24 — a 61% 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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