Trade CS2 skins: check a trade before you accept

Put in what you give and what you receive. See who comes out ahead, the cheapest way to swap and the safety checks, before you press confirm in Steam.

You give

$25.151 item · instant cash

AK-47Redline · Field-Tested

$25.15instant cash

You receive

$29.721 item · instant cash

AWPRedline · Field-Tested

$29.72instant cash

You gainExample trade

You receive $4.57 more

That is 18% of what you give. Priced at instant cash bids, the money you would get if you sold right now.

You give $25.15You receive $29.72

Open the full checker

Locked for 7 days. What you receive cannot be traded or sold until 10 Oct (Steam Trade Protection), and the trade can be reversed in that time.

Before you accept: 5 checks

Trade value

You give AK-47 | Redline (Field-Tested) and receive AWP | Redline (Field-Tested). Priced at instant cash bids, the money you would get if you sold right now, you give $25.15 and receive $29.72. You receive $4.57 more: you come out ahead. Checked 3 Oct 2026.

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.

Value of both sides of the trade at instant cash, market average and Steam prices
Price basis	You give	You receive	Difference
Instant cashcurrent Instant cash bids, the money you would get if you sold right now.	$25.15	$29.72	You receive $4.57 more
Lowest ask The lowest ask across the markets we track, roughly what it costs to buy.	$25.36	$30.00	You receive $4.64 more
Steam The Steam Market lowest listing, paid in wallet funds.	$35.14	$41.07	You receive $5.93 more

USD, hourly quotes, checked 3 Oct 2026. Prices are for the item and wear: float, pattern and stickers can move the real value.

Need several items on a side, or float, pattern and trade protection per item? Open the full trade fairness checker with this trade.

Best route to swap

Selling one skin and buying another costs more than the gap between their prices. This is the cost of each route for this swap.

The cheapest way from AK-47 | Redline (Field-Tested) to AWP | Redline (Field-Tested) is list it, then buy: add $2.61. You sell at $27.39 and buy at $30.00, before seller fees.

Routes for swapping the skin you give for the skin you receive
Route	You sell at	You buy at	Cash to add or keep	Speed
Instant cash, then buy	$25.15DMarket	$30.00DMarket	add $4.85	Both steps today
List it, then buyCheapest of the two	$27.39Skinport	$30.00DMarket	add $2.61	Waits for a buyer

Before seller fees. Instant cash is the highest buy order; listing uses the highest ask on a market with at least 10 listings. You buy at the lowest ask.

Screened markets

Sell AK-47 | Redline (Field-Tested) for instant cash

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1 market

DMarketPeer-to-peer marketplaceID checkCash offer
Payout$25.15
Sell ›

USD · hourly quotes from each market, before seller fees. The marketplace confirms the final offer. Highlighted rows are promoted and listed first. How we rank · Disclosure

Buy AWP | Redline (Field-Tested)

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4 markets

DMarket290 listingsPeer-to-peer marketplace
From$30.00
Buy ›
CS.MONEY271 listingsTrade bot
From$31.05+3.5%
Buy ›
SkinsMonkey23 listingsTrade bot
From$34.61+15.4%
Buy ›
Skinport149 listingsPeer-to-peer marketplace
From$30.49+1.6%
Buy ›

USD · hourly quotes from each market. The marketplace confirms the final offer. Highlighted rows are promoted and listed first. How we rank · Disclosure

Want site credit routes and a break-even? Open the full trade route optimizer with this swap.

Trade safety

A fair price does not make a trade safe. These are the checks that matter in Steam.

What you receive is locked for 7 days. Since July 2025 every CS2 item received in a trade is trade protected for 7 days: usable in game, but not sellable or tradable. Accounts without the Steam Mobile Authenticator can face a longer hold, and the Steam trade window shows any hold before you confirm.
The trade can be reversed inside that week. A reversal returns the items to the sender. Never pay for skins outside Steam (cash, crypto, gift cards, another site): a reversal leaves you with no item and no refund.
Read the exact items in the Steam confirmation. Check wear, StatTrak or Souvenir tags, stickers and the item count. A lookalike swapped in at the last second is the most common trick. Confirm only in the Steam mobile app.
Protect your API key. Anyone with your Steam Web API key can cancel real offers and send altered ones. Never enter it on a site that asks for it. If you ever did, revoke it on the Steam API key page and change your password.
Check the other side. Look at account age, Steam level, bans and whether the inventory and friends list are public. A clean profile is not a guarantee, but a days-old account with a rare item is a warning.

How to verify a trade bot

Start from the marketplace, not from a message. Type or bookmark the address. Do not follow links from chat, comments, ads or direct messages.
The offer must match your request. It should arrive right after you ask for it on the site, with the same items and value the site showed. An offer that appears out of nowhere is not from the marketplace.
Compare the sender profile. The marketplace names the bot accounts or shows a trade code that has to match the offer message. Lookalike profiles copy the name and avatar but not the profile address.
Never send items to a person "to hold". Real marketplaces use their own bots and escrow; they never ask you to move items to someone first.
When something is off, stop. Decline the offer in Steam. Declining costs nothing; a confirmed trade cannot be undone by anyone but the sender.

Check a profile before you trade: counterparty checks in the full trade fairness checker.

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 page prices both sides on one basis at a time (best instant cash bid, the lowest ask or the Steam lowest listing), shows who comes out ahead in dollars and lets you switch the basis.

What do You gain, You lose and Even mean?

The gap is measured against the smaller side. Within 5% either way the trade is Even. Beyond that, You gain means what you receive is worth more than what you give on the chosen price basis, and You lose means the opposite. The default basis is instant cash when both items have a bid, otherwise the lowest ask.

Why can I not sell what I receive straight away?

Since July 2025 every CS2 item received in a trade is trade protected for 7 days. It can be used in game but not sold or traded, 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?

A lookalike skin swapped in at the last second (other wear, no StatTrak tag, 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.