StatTrak is the orange-labelled version of a skin with a digital counter built into the weapon. It came with the Arms Deal update back in CS:GO and works the same in CS2. Here is how often you get one from a case, what the counter actually tracks, and how much more a StatTrak skin costs.
What StatTrak does
A StatTrak skin has a small display on the weapon model that counts your confirmed kills with it. On knives the count is etched into the blade. StatTrak music kits count something else: how many times your MVP anthem has played.
The counter only runs for the owner. If a teammate picks up your StatTrak AK, kills with it do not count, and the display cycles through the count, “ERROR” and “UNKNWN USER” while it is in their hands. According to the Counter-Strike wiki, kills on bots and teammates do not count either.
StatTrak odds from cases
StatTrak is not a separate rarity. Opening a case works in three steps: the game picks the rarity, then the item, then rolls whether it is StatTrak. That last roll is about 10%. SteamDB checked 20,090 recorded openings and found 9.83% StatTrak drops.
The same roll applies to knives:
| Drop | Chance | About one in |
|---|---|---|
| Any StatTrak item | 10% | 10 cases |
| Knife or gloves (any) | 0.26% | 385 cases |
| StatTrak knife | 0.026% | 3,846 cases |
Gloves never come in StatTrak, so in a glove case the gold slot is always a normal item. Every case page in our case simulator lists the odds for each skin.
What happens to the counter when you trade
The count belongs to the owner who earned it. When a StatTrak skin leaves your inventory, through a trade or a Steam Community Market sale, the counter goes back to zero for the next owner. A used StatTrak skin with 10,000 kills does not sell for more because of the number, since the buyer will not keep it.
The StatTrak Swap Tool is the exception. It swaps the counters of two StatTrak skins of the same weapon in your own inventory, so you can move a high count from an old skin to a new one.
StatTrak rules worth knowing
- Knives: have StatTrak versions, including vanilla knives (but not the default knife).
- Gloves: never StatTrak.
- Souvenirs: a skin can be StatTrak or Souvenir, never both.
- Trade-ups: inputs must be all StatTrak or all normal, and the result matches. Five StatTrak Coverts in a knife trade-up always return a StatTrak knife, never gloves.
- Collection skins: skins from collections and souvenir packages have no StatTrak version. For weapon skins, StatTrak comes from cases.
How much more StatTrak costs
The premium depends on the skin and the wear. SteamDB’s median prices for the AWP | Printstream from the Fever Case in July 2026:
| Wear | Normal | StatTrak | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | $238 | $463 | about 1.9x |
| Minimal Wear | $81 | $158 | about 1.95x |
| Field-Tested | $51 | $86 | about 1.7x |
| Well-Worn | $44 | $61 | about 1.4x |
| Battle-Scarred | $44 | $57 | about 1.3x |
The pattern is typical: the cleaner and more popular the skin, the bigger the StatTrak premium. On cheap skins the gap can be small, and on knives some collectors even prefer the normal version.
Is StatTrak worth paying for?
If you play with the weapon every round, a StatTrak counter is a nice extra, and on popular skins it tends to hold its value at least as well as the normal version. If you only care about the look, the normal skin is the same item for less money. And if you are opening cases for StatTrak, remember it is a 1 in 10 roll on top of everything else, not something you can aim for.
