Fees decide whether a CS2 trade makes money. A 10% spread is a good trade on a 2% marketplace and a loss on a 15% one. Here is roughly what each charges, and how to use those numbers.
Seller fees, roughly
- Steam Community Market: about 15%, and the money stays on Steam.
- CSFloat: reported at about 2%, with a further fee to cash out.
- Buff163: reported at about 2.5%.
- Market.CSGO: reported as low as 2%. Check its current rate.
- Skinport: reported from about 6% to 12%, depending on the price and the listing type.
- DMarket: depends on the item. In our own data on 30 October 2026, across 25,767 items, it ran from 2% to 10%, and the median item paid 10%.
Except for DMarket, these figures come from public comparisons, which do not all agree, and marketplaces change their fees. Treat them as a starting point, and check the marketplace's own fee page before a real trade.
The break-even formula
The price you must sell at to get your money back is:
break-even = buy price / (1 - fee)
For a skin you bought at $100:
- At a 2% fee, you must sell at $102.05.
- At a 5% fee, you must sell at $105.27.
- At a 10% fee, you must sell at $111.12.
- At a 15% fee, you must sell at $117.65.
Note that a 10% fee needs more than a 10% rise, because the fee is charged on the higher sale price.
Costs that are not called fees
- Withdrawals: taking money out can cost a percentage or a flat amount. Include it in your numbers if you will really take the money out.
- Deposits: card and crypto deposits may have their own charges.
- Restricted balance: balance you cannot withdraw is worth less than its face value.
- Time: money tied up in a trade hold cannot be used for other trades.
Fees and bots
Set your floor from the break-even, and a robot cannot sell at a loss for you. The minimum price on a DMarket or market.csgo.com offer is exactly that. In the arbitrage tool, set the coefficient for the marketplace you sell on a little over 1 plus its fee, 1.06 for a 5% fee, and every skin it shows clears that fee.
Comparing the full price
The same skin's price differs across marketplaces too, partly because of these fees. The prices table shows every item on 22 marketplaces side by side, with buy orders, so you can see both sides of a trade at once.