Spectrum Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $3.37; opening it with the key comes to $6.01. The expected value of the contents is $3.05 — a 50.6% unboxing ROI, or 53.8% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $6.01 and returns $3.05 on average — a 49.4% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.38: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 44% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where Spectrum Case came from
More facts about Spectrum Case
March 15, 2017release date · 9 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+3.6%price over 2 weeks
882live listings in our DB
$251buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $251 — the price of 41.8 openings at $6.01 each. The priciest is AK-47 | Bloodsport at $112, the cheapest is Sawed-Off | Zander at $0.19.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $6.01 ($3.37 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $3.05 — a 50.6% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 5.0%.
How much does it cost to open Spectrum Case?
$6.01: the case itself is $3.37 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Spectrum Case?
The median single opening returns $0.38 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $6.01 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $2.09.
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 Case ROI rises from 50.6% to 53.8%.
What are the knife odds in Spectrum 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 $2,351.
Where is Spectrum Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $3.37 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $5.53 — a 64% 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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