CS2 skin market report — July 2026

This is the first monthly report, which makes it mostly a promise about the format: every month, what changed in marketplace fees, what the data pipeline observed, and what it means for sellers — numbers first, narratives never. Subscribe via RSS.

The month in one paragraph

Launch month. The fee dataset went live covering 7 marketplaces (fees last verified · 2026-07-13), the price pipeline began tracking 24,611 live-priced items across a catalog of 2,126 base skins (prices last refreshed 2026-07-15), and the calculator, ranking and fee table all ship from that one dataset.

Marketplace & fee notes

The structural features worth knowing this month — these are baseline observations, not changes:

• The ranking is amount-dependent by design. Skinport’s reduced 6% rate above $1,000 and CSFloat’s amount-tiered withdrawal fee mean there is no single “cheapest marketplace” — the ranking page shows the crossovers live.
• Full-cycle costs differ from advertised fees. The clearest case is ShadowPay, where the withdrawal leg roughly doubles the advertised cost — the review prices the whole trip.
• Liquidity-scaled fees are the quiet variable. DMarket’s rate depends on how commonly traded your item is (review); footnoted in the fee table.

Dataset changelog

• Initial fee verification completed 2026-07-13 across all modeled marketplaces; each future report logs any fee change the monthly re-verification finds.
• Daily price refresh live (catalog + prices, with a fail-safe that keeps the last good data if a source breaks).

What we’re watching next month

The first monthly fee re-verification (any drift between published fees and our dataset gets logged here), coverage growth in the priced-item pool, and reader questions — the about page has the contact route. If a marketplace changes its fees mid-month, the site updates when verified; the report records it.