Cases in Counter-Strike 2 appeared more than ten years ago, and they are still popular among players today. The Blix team examined the best cases for profit-making in 2025.
Contents
Highlights
- The most profitable cases 2025
- CS2 cases worth investing in
- Skins that you can get when opening cases
Best CS2 Cases to Open 2025
In the table below, we’ve compared successful unboxing cases with good skins in terms of the probability that the unboxing cost will exceed the opening cost (Probability of Profit), the payback for that container if you open it now (Unboxing ROI), and the payback if you bought the container a year ago (Chance of ROI).
| Name | Unboxing ROI (%) | Case Price | Probability of Profit (%) | Chance of ROI (%) |
| Kilowatt Case | 69.77% | $0.74 | 4.71% | -50.64% |
| Gamma 2 Case | 49.54% | $2.93 | 1.57% | 54.92% |
| Spectrum 2 Case | 47.17% | $2.54 | 2.48% | 76.82% |
| Danger Zone Case | 54.17% | $0.95 | 4.43% | 91.28% |
| Huntsman Weapon Case | 58.71% | $9.15 | 6.85% | 38.57% |
| Winter Offensive Case | 63.38% | $6.43 | 6.96% | 46.98% |
| Operation Hydra Case | 50.05% | $20.01 | 6.57% | 37.43% |
| CS:GO Weapon Case | 52.81% | $86.28 | 12.91% | 33.69% |
| Fever Case | 76.01% | $1.70 | 5.84% | 3.18% |
| Dreams & Nightmares Case | 47.5% | $1.43 | 1.66% | 110.9% |
Kilowatt Case
Kilowatt Case
- Price: ~$0.74
- Release date: February 7, 2024
- Best skins: Kukri Knife | Case Hardened, Zeus | Olympus
The skins dropped from this case include the new Kukri knife in Slaughter, Crimson Web, Blue Steel and Case Hardened variants. The case also has the recently added Zeus Olympus skin.
Unlike some cases where blue and purple skins make opening more lucrative, the Kilowatt case is not like that at all. Opening a decent Mil-Spec or Restricted skin won’t help you at all, but if you can find a Classified, Covert or Kukri Knife, you’ll get a skin from $10 to $800. Not a bad case with a 4.71% chance of profit.
You can find a complete description of the skins from this case in our article.
Gamma 2 Case
Gamma 2 Case
- Price: ~$2.93
- Release date: August 18, 2016
- Best skins: Lore Knives, Gamma Doppler Knives
One of the most budget-friendly cases is the Gamma 2 Case, which costs slightly over $2.
While the AK-47 | Neon Revolution skinned AK-47 is a great buy at around $70 for the FN version, the real value, in this case, is the outstanding knives on display. Most of Lore Knives’ gold knives and the highly desirable Gamma Dopplers are represented here.
If you are lucky enough to get a knife with a rare pattern, you can sell it for hundreds of thousands, a good investment for $2, even though the chances of getting such a knife are incredibly slim – even less than 2 percent.
Spectrum 2 Case
Spectrum 2 Case
- Price: ~$2.54
- Release date: September 14, 2017
- Best skins: AK-47 | The Empress, Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel
The Spectrum 2 case doesn’t have identical high scores as Gamma 2 but has a broader range of mid-value skins, making it more reliable to open.
Many decent options will allow you to make a profit, even if it’s small because there are better options than relying on luck.
The AK-47 | The Empress skin is the best of all but the knives. In this case, seven skins will allow you to make a profit or break even.
Danger Zone Case
Danger Zone Case
- Price: ~$0.95
- Release date: December 6, 2018
- Best skins: AK-47 | Asiimov, Talon Knife | Fade
For value for money, no other case can match Danger Zone, which has several skins that can pay back the 90 cents invested several times over.
The best of these is undoubtedly the AK-47 | Asiimov. All players prize this skin, and its price starts at $32.
You can also get the Talon Knife, the most valuable and beautiful of all, and a few more Fade variants.
Huntsman Weapon Case
Huntsman Weapon Case
- Price: ~$9.15
- Release date: May 1, 2014
- Best skins:AK-47 | Vulcan, Huntsman Knives
The Huntsman Weapon Case is a win-win option that will cost you more money to open but with better results.
The AK-47 | Vulcan costs $1000 just for the FN version! Not every knife reaches that price.
Like the Spectrum 2, the Huntsman case features several skins that will meet or exceed the price of the case when sold, making it an overall safe purchase with huge benefits. Even if you get the cheapest skin from this case, you’ll still pay off the following key to open another case.
Winter Offensive Weapon Case
Winter Offensive Weapon Case
- Price: ~$6.43
- Release date: December 18, 2013
- Best skins: Karambit | Case Hardened, M9 Bayonet | Case Hardened
This case represents value for those who dream of getting one of the best knives. You’ll find skins for the Slaughter and Fade knives and mythologized Case Hardened variants here.
The Karambit, in particular, is the most expensive knife as it has a beautiful design and pattern. You’ll pay just under $2000 for the standard FN version, but the price will soar if you encounter a rare pattern.
In addition to knives, you can get skins for weapons such as the M4A4 | Asiimov and AWP | Redline.
Operation Hydra Case
Operation Hydra Case
- Price: ~$20.01
- Release date: May 23, 2017
- Best skins: AWP | Oni Taiji, Sport Gloves
In the Operation Hydra case, you’ll find a lot of great skins, from the expensive Oni Taiji AWP to the immensely quotable Cobra Strike Dual Berettas.
However, the primary value of this briefcase is the various gloves – especially those in the “Sport Gloves” group.
These options typically cost at least $1,000 at their worst, and those like the Pandora’s Box can go as high as $11,000. Of course, gloves can also be found in the Gloves Case, but we see this case as more respectable due to the more significant number of excellent “regular” skins, as the likelihood of you getting a pair of gloves is very slim.
CS:GO Weapon Case
CS:GO Weapon Case
- Price: ~$86.28
- Release date: August 14, 2013
- Best skins: AK-47 | Case Hardened, AWP | Lightning Strike
The CS:GO Weapon Case is the first case released in CS:GO, but pay attention to it because it contains some decent skins.
The enormous prices of the skins are due to their rarity, as the age of the case means that there aren’t many left, which means that all the skins included in it are much rarer.
At the top of the list is the AWP | Lightning Strike and AK-47 | Case Hardened, for which you’ll get at least $550.
Fever Case
Fever Case
- Price: ~$1.70
- Release date: April 1, 2025
- Best skins: Skeleton Knife | Marble Fade, AWP | Printstream, Glock-18 | Shinobu
The Fever Case presents 17 different skins for various weapons in CS2. The new CS2 case, as always, features five different weapon qualities: mil-spec, restricted, classified, covert, and knives.
Fever Case was only recently released, which means that skins from it have not had time to flood the market yet, so the value of these skins is currently high. The percentage of good, expensive skins that will pay off the case cost is very high, and the Unboxing ROI is above 70%, which is the best.
For example, the AWP | Printstream, which costs over 300 dollars per FT, drops 1 to 312 opens, which is a very good statistic compared to many cases.
Dreams & Nightmares Case
Dreams & Nightmares Case
- Price: ~$1.43
- Release date: January 20, 2022
- Best skins: AK-47 | Nightwish, MP9 | Starlight Protector, Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler
This case contains such sought-after skins as M4A1-S | Night Terror, MP9 | Starlight Protector, and AK-47 | Nightwish. And also here can fall rare Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler – Emerald, but it falls once in 145 thousand. But Butterfly Knife | Autotronic can be obtained once in 11,730 attempts. And overall, a knife or gloves can drop 1 time in 391 attempts.
There are certainly a lot of knives here, but there are also a lot of very cheap skins and the payback percentage does not exceed 2 percent.
Conclusion
In this selection, we have presented cases we recommend investing in and opening them for profit. But if you want to try something different from this list, we advise you to look closely at the Fracture Case or Operation Wildfire Case.
