CS2 Skin Market
Segment indices, trading volume and liquidity across 2,062 skins. Prices as of 27 August 2026. Every figure here is computed from our own price snapshot — the methodology is below, and none of it is a black-box score.
Indices
Each index is base 100 at its own inception and tracks a fixed basket of the most-traded skins in that segment. History starts when the capture first ran and is never backfilled, so a young index shows a level rather than a trend — that is the honest state of it, not a bug.
Most traded
The highest 30-day trade volume among skins worth $1 or more.
| Skin | Price | 30d volume | Liquidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK-47 | Slate | $2.99 | 50,832 | 100 |
| AK-47 | Ice Coaled | $3.53 | 42,377 | 93 |
| AK-47 | Elite Build | $1.30 | 40,076 | 100 |
| M4A1-S | Black Lotus | $3.38 | 39,842 | 99 |
| M4A1-S | Solitude | $1.09 | 38,898 | 91 |
| AK-47 | Searing Rage | $3.70 | 33,770 | 91 |
| AK-47 | Midnight Laminate | $1.93 | 32,249 | 88 |
| USP-S | Jawbreaker | $2.75 | 32,243 | 100 |
| AWP | Duality | $2.58 | 30,187 | 97 |
| AWP | Atheris | $2.98 | 28,987 | 98 |
| Glock-18 | Shinobu | $3.84 | 27,229 | 98 |
| AK-47 | Breakthrough | $1.52 | 23,373 | 46 |
| FAMAS | Rapid Eye Movement | $5.45 | 22,013 | 99 |
| Dual Berettas | Melondrama | $5.51 | 21,646 | 99 |
| Zeus x27 | Olympus | $2.60 | 21,046 | 80 |
Most liquid
Skins above $20 that move fastest — the ones you can actually sell at the quoted price.
| Skin | Price | 30d volume | Liquidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Eagle | Printstream | $31.31 | 7,508 | 100 |
| USP-S | Printstream | $28.88 | 5,020 | 98 |
| P250 | See Ya Later | $94.99 | 947 | 96 |
| AK-47 | Asiimov | $35.83 | 4,044 | 95 |
| USP-S | The Traitor | $28.99 | 2,288 | 95 |
| Glock-18 | Neo-Noir | $27.41 | 756 | 94 |
| Glock-18 | Bullet Queen | $48.66 | 1,199 | 94 |
| M4A4 | Neo-Noir | $25.13 | 2,982 | 94 |
| AK-47 | Nightwish | $56.50 | 8,363 | 93 |
| MP9 | Starlight Protector | $57.55 | 8,181 | 93 |
| AK-47 | The Empress | $93.25 | 1,338 | 92 |
| M4A1-S | Player Two | $49.99 | 1,551 | 92 |
| M4A4 | In Living Color | $25.05 | 1,992 | 92 |
| AWP | Chromatic Aberration | $24.56 | 4,957 | 92 |
| MP7 | Bloodsport | $26.61 | 4,490 | 91 |
Hardest to sell
The other side, and the one that costs people money: skins over $200 with the lowest liquidity. A high price with nothing behind it means a long wait or a discount.
| Skin | Price | 30d volume | Liquidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| M9 Bayonet | Doppler - Ruby | $7,800 | 0 | 1 |
| M4A4 | Howl | $4,017 | 0 | 1 |
| AWP | The Prince | $1,650 | 1 | 1 |
| Butterfly Knife | Doppler - Phase 3 | $2,060 | 0 | 1 |
| Bayonet | Doppler - Black Pearl | $1,901 | 0 | 1 |
| Nomad Knife | Doppler - Black Pearl | $1,070 | 0 | 1 |
| M4A1-S | Imminent Danger | $579.33 | 4 | 1 |
| Flip Knife | Doppler - Black Pearl | $1,325 | 0 | 1 |
| Five-SeveN | Neon Kimono | $431.67 | 2 | 1 |
| Huntsman Knife | Doppler - Black Pearl | $1,041 | 0 | 1 |
| Bowie Knife | Doppler - Black Pearl | $940.00 | 0 | 1 |
| AWP | Oni Taiji | $239.39 | 26 | 1 |
| Huntsman Knife | Doppler - Ruby | $859.46 | 0 | 1 |
| Desert Eagle | Emerald Jörmungandr | $408.00 | 8 | 1 |
| Ursus Knife | Doppler - Black Pearl | $697.13 | 0 | 1 |
Methodology
The indices are Laspeyres price indices over fixed baskets: index = Σ(p_now × q_base) / Σ(p_base × q_base) × 100, where q_base is 90-day trade volume at inception. Baskets are chosen once and never re-pick themselves — a self-rebalancing basket drops the losers and quietly biases the index upward, which is how a market index ends up only ever going up.
Prices are the cheapest live listing across the marketplaces we track, the same figure used on every skin page. Liquidity is our provider’s 0-100 score, surfaced as-is rather than re-derived into a number that looks more precise than it is. For a single item, the price tracker breaks it down per market.
Frequently asked questions
How is the CSDB Skin Index calculated?
It is a Laspeyres price index over a fixed basket chosen once at inception: index = Σ(current price × base quantity) / Σ(base price × base quantity) × 100, where base quantity is 90-day trade volume at inception. The basket never re-picks itself, because a self-rebalancing basket quietly survivor-biases the index upward. A basket item with no current price carries its last known price rather than dropping out, and every snapshot records how many were carried.
Why do some indices show no change?
Index history begins the day the capture first ran and cannot be backfilled — an index whose early values were reconstructed after the fact is not one you could cite. Segment indices were established recently, so they show a level rather than a trend until more weekly observations accumulate.
What does the liquidity number mean?
It is the liquidity score from our market data provider, on a 0-100 scale, reflecting how readily an item trades. We surface it rather than deriving our own, and we do not dress it up with decimal places it does not have.
Why are cheap skins excluded from "most traded"?
By volume alone the most-traded skins are almost entirely items worth a few cents. A table of $0.03 consumer-grade skins is technically correct and useless, so the tables apply a minimum price.