Best Red Stickers in CS2
Classified from the artwork, not the name — 1408 stickers read red
We run every CS2 sticker's artwork through a colour classifier; 1408 of them read red. The list below is filtered to stickers with a genuine market — at least two live listings, and no marketplace listing-ceiling prices — and ordered by how strongly the artwork reads red.
Picking stickers by colour is really a craft problem: you want something that reads clearly at the size it sits on a weapon, against the skin you are putting it on. Red is the classic craft colour because it carries at small sizes, though it competes with the red tones already in a lot of Covert finishes.
Rather than hand-pick favourites, this list is generated from our sticker dataset. Each sticker image is bucketed by dominant hue, so what you get is every sticker that actually looks red in game — including ones whose names give no clue.
Red stickers with a real market
| # | Sticker | Variant | Tournament | Listings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clown Nose | Paper | — | 10278 | $0.19 |
| 2 | Drukhari 1 | Paper | — | 104 | $1.78 |
| 3 | Ruby Stream (Lenticular) | Lenticular | — | 4686 | $2.46 |
| 4 | Ruby Wave (Lenticular) | Lenticular | — | 5535 | $3.53 |
| 5 | World Eaters 2 | Paper | — | 91 | $1.54 |
| 6 | Hands Off (Foil) | Foil | — | 1066 | $1.60 |
| 7 | blameF (Holo) | Antwerp 2022 | Holo | Antwerp 2022 | 436 | $0.43 |
| 8 | gla1ve (Holo) | Antwerp 2022 | Holo | Antwerp 2022 | 320 | $0.56 |
| 9 | MOUZ (Glitter) | Copenhagen 2024 | Glitter | Copenhagen 2024 | 1223 | $0.19 |
| 10 | MOUZ | Copenhagen 2024 | Paper | Copenhagen 2024 | 1634 | $0.02 |
| 11 | k0nfig (Holo) | Antwerp 2022 | Holo | Antwerp 2022 | 304 | $0.36 |
| 12 | Wallbang | Paper | — | 333 | $0.13 |
| 13 | Hobbit | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 95 | $3.18 |
| 14 | Farlig (Holo) | Antwerp 2022 | Holo | Antwerp 2022 | 305 | $0.40 |
| 15 | Astralis | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 212 | $6.95 |
| 16 | CS On The Mind | Paper | — | 306 | $0.58 |
| 17 | Zeus | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 82 | $5.65 |
| 18 | Kjaerbye | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 85 | $2.68 |
| 19 | sinnopsyy (Holo) | Paris 2023 | Holo | Paris 2023 | 229 | $0.18 |
| 20 | Astralis | Boston 2018 | Paper | Boston 2018 | 267 | $3.63 |
| 21 | NiKo | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 48 | $41.66 |
| 22 | SmithZz | Cologne 2016 | Paper | Cologne 2016 | 35 | $5.32 |
| 23 | xertioN | Copenhagen 2024 | Paper | Copenhagen 2024 | 1525 | $0.01 |
| 24 | denis | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 48 | $4.69 |
| 25 | xertioN (Glitter) | Copenhagen 2024 | Glitter | Copenhagen 2024 | 326 | $0.04 |
| 26 | AdreN | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 58 | $6.00 |
| 27 | Kjaerbye (Foil) | Atlanta 2017 | Foil | Atlanta 2017 | 6 | $25.03 |
| 28 | device | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 72 | $10.07 |
| 29 | Astralis | 2020 RMR | Paper | 2020 RMR | 2201 | $0.03 |
| 30 | Spiidi | Atlanta 2017 | Paper | Atlanta 2017 | 80 | $3.12 |
Prices are the lowest ask across the marketplaces we track, from our snapshot of August 27, 2026 — asks, not completed sales. Ordering is by strength of colour match, not price, because sticker prices are driven by capsule and variant rather than by colour.
How this list is built
Every sticker image is converted to HSV and its non-transparent pixels histogrammed into named colour buckets — the same classifier behind our glove colour and skin colour pages. A sticker qualifies here if red is its dominant or strong secondary colour.
Two deliberate filters keep the table honest:
- At least two live listings. A single aspirational ask on something that never trades is not a price.
- No shared-price rows. Buff163's price rungs convert to fixed dollar values, so nine different stickers can show the identical figure. Those are platform ceilings, not valuations — the same filtering our most expensive stickers page explains in full.
One honest limitation: classification is by dominant colour of the whole image, so a sticker named after a faction or team can land under a colour its name never mentions. That is the classifier being right about the artwork and the name being about something else.
Before you apply one
- Application is permanent. The sticker is consumed and the position is locked — see how to apply stickers.
- Scraping is one-way and destroys the sticker rather than returning it.
- Variant drives value far more than colour — the tiers are covered in sticker grades.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are the best red stickers in CS2?
- We classify every sticker's artwork by dominant colour, and 1408 read as red. The table below shows the ones with a real market behind them, strongest-reading first — Clown Nose leads.
- How is "red" decided?
- By the artwork, not the name. Every sticker image is run through a hue histogram and bucketed by its dominant colour, the same way our glove and skin colour pages work. That means a sticker can be named after something else entirely and still land here if it reads that colour on a weapon.
- Why are some obvious ones missing?
- Two filters. A sticker needs at least two live listings to appear, and we drop prices shared by three or more different stickers because those are marketplace listing ceilings rather than real valuations. Anything failing those is classified but not listed.
- Do red stickers cost more?
- Colour itself carries no premium. Price is driven by the capsule, the variant (Paper, Glitter, Holo, Foil, Gold) and whether the tournament is discontinued — a common Paper sticker and a Katowice 2014 Holo of the same colour are different asset classes entirely.
- Does applying a sticker change its colour?
- No, but scraping does change how it reads. Wear strips the design down progressively, so a heavily scraped sticker shows less of its dominant colour. Applying is also permanent — worth deciding before you commit.