What is your CS2 inventory actually worth?
The number Steam shows you is not the number you can walk away with. Here is how to value a CS2 inventory the way the market actually pays for it.
Why the Steam total misleads
Steam shows a wallet total based on Community Market prices. Two things quietly inflate it:
- Fees. Selling on the Steam market costs roughly 13%, and the money lands in your Steam wallet, not your bank. So the "value" you see is gross of fees and not real cash.
- Name-average pricing. Steam prices a skin by its name, ignoring the one thing that makes each copy unique: its float and pattern. A clean, rare-pattern copy can be worth several times the name average, and a beaten one much less.
Net value: the number that matters
The useful figure is net of fees — what actually lands after a market takes its cut. It differs by venue, so the right value for a skin is the best net any market you would use would pay for it today:
| Venue | Typical fee | Pays out to |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Community Market | ~13% | Steam wallet only |
| Third-party cash markets | ~2–10% | Real money / crypto |
| Direct trade | 0% | Other items |
Price every copy, not every name
For anything above a few dollars, value the copy, not the name. That means resolving each skin's float, pattern (paint seed) and any stickers, then pricing that specific item. For a big inventory this is tedious by hand, which is exactly what a tracker is for.
Track it over time
A single snapshot is a start, but the useful thing is the trend: is your inventory gaining or bleeding value, and which holdings are moving? A daily-marked history of your real holdings turns "I have some skins" into a portfolio you can actually manage.
PatinaAI values your whole inventory across every market, net of fees, per copy, and marks the total daily so you can see it move. Sign in with Steam and it reads your inventory for you.
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