Spectrum Case is a CS2 case with 17 items plus 60 gold entries. It costs $2.90; opening it with the key comes to $5.74. The expected value of the contents is $2.72 — a 47.4% unboxing ROI, or 48.3% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $5.74 and returns $2.72 on average — a 52.6% long-run loss. The median opening returns $0.35: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 49% 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 · 10 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−6.9%price over 2 weeks
1,667live listings in our DB
$229buy all 17 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 17 regular skins cost $229 — the price of 39.9 openings at $5.74 each. The priciest is AK-47 | Bloodsport at $102, 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 $5.74 ($2.90 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $2.72 — a 47.4% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 4.2%.
How much does it cost to open Spectrum Case?
$5.74: the case itself is $2.90 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from Spectrum Case?
The median single opening returns $0.35 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $5.74 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $1.80.
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 47.4% to 48.3%.
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 $2,242.
Where is Spectrum Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $2.90 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $5.53 — a 91% 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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