CS20 Case
The CS20 Case costs $0.97 on the Steam Market, so one opening is $3.46 with a key. It holds 17 skins from the CS20 Collection and 13 knives as its rare special items. On average an opening gives back 49¢ per $1.
Steam Market prices, checked November 6 at 12:59 PM UTC
CS20 Case
25,933 for sale on Steam
- Case on Steam Market
- $0.97
- Key
- $2.49
- One opening
- $3.46
The odds of one opening
- Mil-Spec79.92%
- Restricted15.98%
- Classified3.20%
- Covert0.639%
- Knife0.256%
From Perfect World, Valve's partner in China. StatTrak™ is 1 in 10 on top.
In 100 cases, at least one
- Knife23%
- Covert or better59%
- Classified or better98%
How many cases for a knife
| 50% chance | 271 cases | $938 |
| 90% chance | 900 cases | $3,114 |
| 95% chance | 1,170 cases | $4,048 |
| On average | 391 cases | $1,353 |
What's in the CS20 Case
Every item in a grade is equally likely. Open one for its odds and price in each wear, StatTrak™ included.
Rare special item: knives
0.256% for the grade, 1 in 391. 13 items, 1 in 5,083 each.Covert
0.639% for the grade, 1 in 156. 2 items, 1 in 313 each.Classified
3.20% for the grade, 1 in 31. 3 items, 1 in 94 each.Restricted
15.98% for the grade, 1 in 6. 5 items, 1 in 31 each.Mil-Spec
79.92% for the grade, 1 in 1. 7 items, 1 in 9 each.What you get back per opening
The average Steam Market value of one unboxing, weighted by grade, wear and StatTrak™, against what the opening costs.
On average you lose 51 cents of every dollar, before Steam takes its fee on a sale.
- Average value of what drops
- $1.71
- After Steam's 15% fee if you sell
- $1.49
- One opening costs
- $3.46
- Knife1 in 391, average $15623%
- Covert1 in 156, average $5822%
- Classified1 in 31, average $7.6414%
- Restricted1 in 6, average $1.3212%
- Mil-Spec1 in 1, average $0.6028%
Four in five openings are a Mil-Spec skin worth about $0.60. The average is held up by drops most players never see.
Three ways to a knife
Since October 2025, five Covert skins from one collection trade up into that collection's rare item, a knife or a pair of gloves. Here is what each route costs today.
On average. Half of players need 271 cases or more, and 1 in 10 need more than 900.
- You can't pick which knife
- Plus every skin you unbox on the way
Five of the cheapest Coverts from the CS20 Collection, from the Steam Market. No key needed.
- You get a random knife from the collection
- Worth $156 on average
The cheapest on the Steam Market today, a Classic Knife | Boreal Forest.
- The only way you choose what you get
- A traded item is under 7-day Trade Protection
CS20 Case price history
The daily median sale price on the Steam Community Market since the case could first be sold.
- Today
- $0.98
- Last 30 days
- -2%
- Since its first week
- -85%
- All-time low
- $0.027
- Sold, last 30 days
- 84,620
Every CS2 case, cheapest first
The case price plus a key is what one opening costs. Each case has its own page with its contents, odds and price history.
| $0.12 | $2.61 | $1,021 | 35¢ per $1 | 687,759 | |
| $0.19 | $2.68 | $1,048 | 38¢ per $1 | 486,026 | |
| $0.28 | $2.77 | $1,083 | 42¢ per $1 | 177,139 | |
| $0.40 | $2.89 | $1,130 | 56¢ per $1 | 72,673 | |
| $0.47 | $2.96 | $1,157 | 37¢ per $1 | 157,651 | |
| $0.53 | $3.02 | $1,181 | 41¢ per $1 | 54,043 | |
| $0.75 | $3.24 | $1,267 | 43¢ per $1 | 266,293 | |
| $0.75 | $3.24 | $1,267 | 53¢ per $1 | 50,504 | |
| $0.97 | $3.46 | $1,353 | 49¢ per $1 | 25,933 | |
| $1.16 | $3.65 | $1,427 | 42¢ per $1 | 526,951 | |
| $1.30 | $3.79 | $1,482 | 49¢ per $1 | 63,162 | |
| $1.32 | $3.81 | $1,490 | 55¢ per $1 | 54,709 | |
| $1.34 | $3.83 | $1,498 | 60¢ per $1 | 48,204 | |
| $1.78 | $4.27 | $1,670 | 58¢ per $1 | 25,016 | |
| $1.95 | $4.44 | $1,736 | 55¢ per $1 | 14,384 | |
| $2.02 | $4.51 | $1,763 | 52¢ per $1 | 13,618 | |
| $3.29 | $5.78 | $2,260 | 55¢ per $1 | 15,803 | |
| $3.51 | $6.00 | $2,346 | 58¢ per $1 | 10,141 | |
| $3.53 | $6.02 | $2,354 | 57¢ per $1 | 15,715 | |
| $3.60 | $6.09 | $2,381 | 52¢ per $1 | 21,614 | |
| $3.71 | $6.20 | $2,424 | 43¢ per $1 | 29,294 | |
| $3.85 | $6.34 | $2,479 | 50¢ per $1 | 17,609 | |
| $3.86 | $6.35 | $2,483 | 53¢ per $1 | 20,208 | |
| $4.84 | $7.33 | $2,866 | 51¢ per $1 | 16,491 | |
| $4.88 | $7.37 | $2,882 | 49¢ per $1 | 11,467 | |
| $4.90 | $7.39 | $2,889 | 49¢ per $1 | 3,589 | |
| $5.72 | $8.21 | $3,210 | 52¢ per $1 | 6,084 | |
| $5.90 | $8.39 | $3,280 | 57¢ per $1 | 3,430 | |
| $6.60 | $9.09 | $3,554 | 50¢ per $1 | 5,321 | |
| $8.57 | $11 | $4,324 | 46¢ per $1 | 3,061 | |
| $10 | $13 | $4,895 | 43¢ per $1 | 16,717 | |
| $10 | $13 | $4,895 | 45¢ per $1 | 1,513 | |
| $11 | $14 | $5,408 | 52¢ per $1 | 19,847 | |
| $12 | $14 | $5,611 | 45¢ per $1 | 976 | |
| $15 | $17 | $6,710 | 60¢ per $1 | 2,043 | |
| $15 | $17 | $6,745 | 46¢ per $1 | 1,807 | |
| $16 | $19 | $7,390 | 55¢ per $1 | 1,122 | |
| $25 | $27 | $10,553 | 50¢ per $1 | 814 | |
| $35 | $37 | $14,659 | 46¢ per $1 | 744 | |
| $59 | $62 | $24,121 | 24¢ per $1 | 229 | |
| $76 | $79 | $30,693 | 25¢ per $1 | 364 | |
| $142 | $144 | $56,421 | 28¢ per $1 | 383 |
Common questions
What are the odds of a knife from the CS20 Case?
0.256%, about 1 in 391 openings, the same as every case. The CS20 Case has 13 knives as its rare special items, so any one of them is about 1 in 5,083.
What's in the CS20 Case?
17 skins from the CS20 Collection: 7 Mil-Spec, 5 Restricted, 3 Classified and 2 Covert (AWP | Wildfire and FAMAS | Commemoration). Its rare special items are 13 knives: Classic Knife.
How much is the CS20 Case worth?
$0.97 on the Steam Market today, with 25,933 for sale. It sold for a median $6.50 on October 18, 2019, its first day on the market. One opening costs $3.46 with a $2.49 key.
Is the CS20 Case worth opening?
Not for the money. An opening gives back about 49¢ of every dollar in Steam Market value on average, so you lose about 51¢. That is number 22 of 42 cases by return today. Most of the value sits in the 0.9% of openings that are a Covert or better.
When did the CS20 Case come out?
October 14, 2019.
Where the numbers come from
The odds are from Perfect World's published table. Each grade is five times as likely as the one above it, and a knife or pair of gloves is 2 for every 5 Coverts. The knife trade-up is in Valve's October 22, 2025 patch notes.
Prices are the lowest current listing on the Steam Community Market. Case prices are read every night, skin, knife and glove prices once a week, and the price history is Steam's own daily median. What is in each case comes from the game's item files.
Valve does not publish wear odds, so the value of a drop uses the float model players have measured, scaled to each skin's float range. Pattern and float premiums, like a Case Hardened Blue Gem, are left out. They can be worth far more than the average.