Trade CS2 skins: check a trade before you accept
Add what you give and what you receive. You see who comes out ahead, the cheapest way to swap and the safety checks, before you press confirm in Steam.
You receive $4.80 more
That is 20% more than you give. Priced as instant cash.
You gain. You receive $4.80 more.
Trade value
Example trade: you give AK-47 | Redline (Field-Tested) and receive AWP | Redline (Field-Tested). Priced as instant cash, you give $24.56 and receive $29.36. You receive $4.80 more, so you come out ahead.
The same trade at each price basis. The verdict above uses the one marked current. A fair trade looks fair on more than one row.
| Price basis | You give | You receive | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instant cashcurrent Instant cash bids, what you would get if you sold right now. | $24.56 | $29.36 | You receive $4.80 more |
| Lowest ask The cheapest listing across the marketplaces, roughly what it costs to buy. | $24.94 | $30.60 | You receive $5.66 more |
| Steam The lowest Steam Market listing, paid in wallet funds. | $32.32 | $37.90 | You receive $5.58 more |
Need several items on a side, or float, pattern and trade protection per item? Open the full trade fairness checker with this trade.
Trading CS2 skins: questions
How do I check whether a CS2 trade is fair?
Price each item by what it sells for, not by its Steam Community Market price alone. Steam prices run above marketplace prices and ignore float, pattern and stickers. This checker prices both sides the same way, as instant cash bids, as the cheapest marketplace listings or as Steam listings, shows who comes out ahead in dollars and lets you switch between them.
What do You gain, You lose and Even mean?
The gap is measured against the smaller side. Within 5% either way the trade counts as Even. Beyond that, You gain means what you receive is worth more than what you give, and You lose means the opposite. The checker starts on instant cash when both items have a bid, and on the cheapest listing otherwise.
Why can I not sell what I receive straight away?
Every CS2 item received in a trade is trade protected for 7 days. You can use it in game, but not sell or trade it, and during that week the trade can be reversed. Count what you receive as locked value until the protection ends.
How can I tell that a trade bot is real?
Start the trade from the marketplace itself, typed or bookmarked, never from a link in chat. The offer should arrive right after your request and match the item, wear and value the site showed. Compare the sender profile with the one the marketplace names, and check the exact items in the Steam confirmation before you approve it in the mobile app.
Which trade scams are most common?
The usual ones are a lookalike skin swapped in at the last second, with another wear, no StatTrak tag or different stickers, payment outside Steam, fake "checker", "verification" or escrow sites that ask for your API key or an item, and people who claim they can reverse a trade for you. Real marketplaces never ask you to send items to a person to hold.
Selling instead of swapping? Compare live payouts for a skin.