AWP | Lightning Strike Price
CS2 rifle prices, float values & marketplace comparison
Also priced separately: StatTrak™ Lightning Strike
CSDB estimated value · Factory New
$380–$460
Best current price
$387.31
Youpin (UU) · 41% below Steam
Lowest recorded ask, 9 Oct 2026 · verify on the marketplace
- Highest buy order
- $519Steam
- 30D sales
- 48Steam
- Liquidity
- 54/100Liquid
- Float range
- 0.00–0.07Factory New
- Listings
- 2,209tracked markets
- Markets quoting
- 14
Marketplace prices from the daily snapshot · updated
Marketplace Prices
Factory New · updated| Marketplace | Price | vs Steam | vs market median | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youpin (UU)Best price | $387.31 | −41% | -7.2% | Search |
| Buff163Review | $395.27 | −40% | -5.3% | Search |
| Tradeit.gg★ 4.8ReviewCode CSDB | $405.08 | −38% | -3.0% | Search |
| HaloSkinsReview | $407.07 | −38% | -2.5% | Search |
| Waxpeer★ 4.0ReviewCode CSDB | $410.28 | −38% | -1.7% | View |
| LIS-SKINS★ 4.8Review | $417.11 | −37% | -0.1% | Search |
| Skin.Land | $417.52 | −36% | 0.0% | Search |
| Skins.com★ 3.8ReviewCode CSDB | $418.97 | −36% | +0.3% | View |
| Steam Community MarketWallet funds | $657.17 | — | — |
Each price is that marketplace's lowest listing for this exact wear and variant. Buyer fees, where a marketplace charges them, are on top.
Individual Listings
Factory New · CSFloatSee the actual items for sale — exact float, paint seed, stickers and screenshots — and how each is priced against the base value of this wear.
Price History
Full Price History
AWP | Lightning Strike (Factory New) Steam price and trading volume since Aug 2013 — 475 days tracked.
Full price & volume history via SteamWebAPI · Steam Community Market.
AWP Lightning Strike Prices by Wear
| Wear | CSDB value | Best price | Steam | 30D sales | Markets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | $380–$460 | $387 | $657 | 48 | 14 |
| Minimal Wear | $490–$540 | $475 | $800 | 1 | 14 |
StatTrak™
| Wear | CSDB value | Best price | Steam | 30D sales | Markets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | $760–$900 | $783 | $1,341 | 5 | 14 |
| Minimal Wear | $1,200–$2,550 | $953 | — | 0 | 9 |
CSDB value is an estimate from recorded sales and cleaned marketplace asks, shown as a range. "Best price" is the lowest listing that survived outlier checks. Where a wear has only a few asks and no recorded sales, CSDB shows the ask and declines to value it. Method
CSDB Market Score
Factory New- Liquidity5448 sales in 30 days, 2,209 listings across tracked markets
- Demand100141% of Steam's open offers sold in 30 days
- Market depth9414 marketplaces quoting, 2,209 listings
- Spread quality2323.2% between the cheapest and dearest cleaned ask
- Data confidence59current listings on 14 marketplaces; 48 Steam sales in 30 days show it trades, but no cash sale prices are recorded
How easy this market is to trade in at a fair price — not a view on where the price is going. Subscores appear only where the inputs exist for this wear.
Market Statistics
Factory New- CSDB estimated value
- $380–$460medium confidence
- Lowest current listing
- $387
- Cash-market median ask
- $41814 markets
- Steam price
- $657wallet funds
- Steam median sale · 30D
- $608wallet funds
- Highest buy order
- $5191,792 wanted · Steam
- Steam bid/ask spread
- 21%
- Steam sales · 7D
- 8
- Steam sales · 30D
- 48
- Steam sales · 90D
- 136
- Median time to sell
- 9 hoursSteam
- Active listings
- 2,209tracked markets
- Days to clear the book
- 21.3Steam offers at Steam sale rate
- Marketplaces quoting
- 14
- Cross-market spread
- 23.2%cleaned asks, Steam excluded
- Liquidity
- 54/100Liquid
Only figures the data supports are listed — a missing row means the feed does not report it for this wear, not that it is zero. How these are measured
Recent Sales — What It Actually Sells For
Listed prices are asks; these are completed sales on Skinport over the last 7 and 30 days. The gap between the two is the real negotiating room.
| Wear | Sold (7d) | Median (7d) | Sold (30d) | Median (30d) | 30d range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StatTrak™ Factory New | 1 | $682.03 | 8 | $801.66 | $682.03–$1,000 |
| StatTrak™ Minimal Wear | 0 | — | 0 | — | —–— |
Sold-price data via Skinport, refreshed daily (as of 29 Aug). One marketplace's completed sales — a floor on truth, not the whole market.
Float Analysis
0.00–0.08| Wear | Floats this skin can roll | Share of its range | CSDB value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | 0.00–0.07 | 87.5% | $380–$460 |
| Minimal Wear | 0.07–0.08 | 12.5% | $490–$540 |
- No Battle-Scarred. Floats stop at 0.08, below the 0.45 Battle-Scarred floor.
- Float premium within a wear:not published yet. Measuring it needs completed sales with their exact floats, and CSDB does not hold enough of those for this skin to separate a float premium from ordinary price noise. Load the individual listings above to see how each item's float sits within its wear.
Lowest Floats on the Market
Used by Pro Players
20 of 864 tracked pros#8 most used AWP skin among the 864 pros we track (20 using it).
AWP Lightning Strike Details
- Weapon
- AWP
- Finish
- Lightning Strike
- Rarity
- Covert
- Category
- Rifle
- Found in
- CS:GO Weapon Case
- Collection
- The Arms Deal Collection
- First seen on market
- 7 Aug 2013
- Float range
- 0.00–0.08
- Paint index
- 51
- StatTrak™ available
- Yes
- Souvenir available
- No
- Unbox chance
- 0.64% one of 1 Covert finishes sharing 0.64%
- Rifle skins tracked
- 471
- Cheaper than 13% of AWP finishes, comparing each at its most affordable valued wear.
- #40 of 47 AWP finishes by Steam sales in the last 30 days (all wears).
Market Summary
AWP | Lightning Strike Factory New has a CSDB estimated market value of $380–$460 (medium confidence), with the cheapest tracked listing at $387 on Youpin (UU). Steam lists it at $657, so the best cash price is 41% lower. This wear recorded 48 Steam sales in the past 30 days and scores 54/100 for liquidity. Across the wears CSDB can value, AWP | Lightning Strike spans about $380–$540.
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About AWP | Lightning Strike
High risk and high reward, the infamous AWP is recognizable by its signature report and one-shot, one-kill policy. It has been painted with a lightning strike motif using anodizing effect paints over a metallic base coat. Sometimes you don't need to strike the same place twice— Official in-game description
AWP | Lightning Strike is a Covert rifle finish from the CS:GO Weapon Case, on the market since 2013. It drops in StatTrak™ as well as the standard version.
The AWP is a rifle in CS2 that costs $4,750 in-game.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much is AWP | Lightning Strike worth?
- AWP | Lightning Strike is worth roughly $380–$540 depending on wear, on CSDB's estimate. Factory New: $380–$460; Minimal Wear: $490–$540.
- What is the cheapest AWP | Lightning Strike?
- The cheapest tracked listing is Factory New at $387 on Youpin (UU), 41% below the Steam price of $657.
- What is the Factory New AWP | Lightning Strike price?
- Factory New AWP | Lightning Strike has a CSDB estimated value of $380–$460 (medium confidence); the cheapest tracked listing is $387 on Youpin (UU), against $657 on Steam.
- What is the Minimal Wear AWP | Lightning Strike price?
- Minimal Wear AWP | Lightning Strike has a CSDB estimated value of $490–$540 (medium confidence); the cheapest tracked listing is $475 on Skinport, against $800 on Steam.
- Is StatTrak™ AWP | Lightning Strike more expensive?
- Factory New: StatTrak™ $835 vs $418 (+100%); Minimal Wear: StatTrak™ $1,855 vs $511 (+263%). Compared on CSDB estimates for wears where both versions can be valued.
- What float can AWP | Lightning Strike have?
- AWP | Lightning Strike rolls floats from 0.00 to 0.08. Factory New 0.00–0.07, Minimal Wear 0.07–0.08.
- How liquid is AWP | Lightning Strike?
- Factory New AWP | Lightning Strike scores 54/100 on CSDB's liquidity measure (liquid): 48 recorded sales in 30 days, and 2,209 active listings across the marketplaces we track. Those are separate counts from separate venues, so they are scored as separate signals rather than divided into one another. Within Steam alone, where the sales and the open offers are the same population, the current book would take about 21 days to clear at that rate.
- When was AWP | Lightning Strike released?
- AWP | Lightning Strike first appeared on the Steam Community Market on 7 August 2013, in the CS:GO Weapon Case. That is its first market listing, which for most items is within a day of release.
- Which pro players use AWP | Lightning Strike?
- Magisk, nexa, Annihilation, aragornN, arrozdoce, cadiaN, DavCost, dumau, es3tag, fANDER, jambo, kabal, Markeloff, Melavi, misutaaa, mwlky, phzy, sdy, tried, zorte use AWP | Lightning Strike in their tracked CS2 loadout.
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