FragPrice studies: what real sales say
Stickers, fade, float, StatTrak™, patterns: we measure what really drives a CS2 skin's price, on real sales and on the prices we record every 2 hours. Each study gives its method, its sample and its limits.
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10.3% on median
How much you save by comparing a CS2 skin's price
The same skin doesn't cost the same everywhere. How much you save by buying on the cheapest site, measured on thousands of skins and recalculated every 2 hours.
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+42% on Steam
How much more does the Steam Market cost than marketplaces?
Does the same skin cost more on the Steam Market? Steam price compared with the cheapest marketplace, across thousands of skins, recalculated every 2 hours.
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Sapphire below Ruby: 18 knives out of 18
Ruby, Sapphire, Black Pearl, Emerald: which Doppler phase costs the most?
Is Sapphire really the most expensive Doppler phase? Prices of every rare phase on every Doppler knife, compared and recalculated every 2 hours.
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×1.36 at 100%
Fade percentage: only 100% pays (and Acid Fade is the exception)
Is a 98% Fade worth more than a 90% one? On 2,000+ real CSFloat sales, only 100% sells higher. On Acid Fade, the percentage matters a lot.
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up to ×121
Heat Treated blue gems: always the same seeds, up to 121 times the price
On Heat Treated skins, the same seeds keep selling high: 19 on the Five-SeveN, 39 on the Desert Eagle, up to ×121. Measured on 775 real sales.
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503 skins out of 521
Skins capped at 0.08: Minimal Wear costs more than Factory New
On Doppler, Fade and Case Hardened knives, Minimal Wear costs more than Factory New 96% of the time (503 of 521 skins). Here's why.
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×1.51 guns, ×1.18 knives
StatTrak™ and Souvenir premium: ×1.5 on guns, ×1.2 on knives
How much more does StatTrak™ cost? Across 3,883 price pairs: ×1.51 on guns, ×1.18 on knives, less as prices rise. Souvenir: no premium.
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Blackiimov: ×3.5 at 0.97
Estimating a CS2 skin's price from its exact float
Two skins with the same wear can differ in price by a factor of three depending on their float. How to estimate the price of a specific copy, the floats worth gold (Blackiimov, Hades skulls) and the limits of the estimate.
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≈ 10% of their value
What stickers applied to a CS2 skin are really worth
A €100 sticker on an AK-47 doesn't make it €100 more expensive. What stickers really add at resale, measured on more than 160,000 real sales: crafts, scraped stickers, Holo, tournaments.
Our method
- The data: real sales recorded on CSFloat (each sale shows the float, the pattern and the stickers) and the prices FragPrice records on the tracked marketplaces.
- The comparison: we compare each sale with the price CSFloat predicts for the same skin at the same float, to isolate the effect being measured (stickers, fade, seed…).
- The median rather than the average, so that one exceptional sale doesn't skew the result. Small samples are flagged as such.
- Free to quote: you can reuse our figures as long as you credit FragPrice with a link to the study.