Fracture Case Knives: All 52 Priced by Wear, From $47 to the Rarest Crimson Web

Valve's own listing confirms there is a knife but does not name it. The Fracture Case page on the Steam Community Market carries Valve's item description: "Container Series #307", then 17 weapon finishes, from Mil-Spec skins such as the SSG 08 Mainframe 001 up to two Coverts, the Desert Eagle Printstream and the AK-47 Legion of Anubis. It ends with one gold line: "or an Exceedingly Rare Special Item!" (read 29 October 2026). That line is all the case itself tells you.

For the names I used the Counter-Strike Wiki's Fracture Case page (revision 164877), read through the wiki's own API on 29 October. It gives the case a release date of 6 August 2020 and lists the special items as the Paracord, Survival, Skeleton and Nomad knives with original finishes. Under each knife it names the same 13 items:

• vanilla, the bare knife with no finish;
• Fade, Slaughter, Case Hardened and Crimson Web, the pattern and colour finishes;
• Blue Steel and Stained, the metal finishes;
• Boreal Forest, Forest DDPAT, Night Stripe, Safari Mesh, Scorched and Urban Masked, the camouflage finishes.

A wiki is a community source, so I checked it against Valve's market. Every one of those 52 names had at least one live listing on Steam on 29 October, in at least one wear. No other original finish turned up for these four knives. That is the cross-check that matters, because Steam only lists items that exist.

Steam did show six more finishes under the same four knife names: Doppler, Marble Fade, Tiger Tooth, Damascus Steel, Rust Coat and Ultraviolet. None of them is on the wiki's Fracture list. They came with the Fever Case, which Valve's 31 March 2025 update described as bringing "Shattered Web knives in Chroma finishes", and the wiki's Fever Case page names exactly these six. The Fever Case knives page covers that pool and prices its Dopplers. If a listing you are looking at says Doppler, it came from a Fever Case, not this one.

Two more consequences of the pool are worth knowing before you buy or open.

The Fracture Case shares its gold pool with the Shattered Web Case. The wiki's Shattered Web Case page (Container Series #277, November 2019) lists the same four knives in the same original finishes. A Fracture Skeleton Fade and a Shattered Web Skeleton Fade are the same market item with the same name. Nothing in the listing records which case it came out of, and the prices in this page's tables are for the item, whatever case it came from.

No gloves, and no rentals of the knife. The case's gold slot is knives only. The Fracture Case listing also says "Items in this container can be rented", but Valve's release notes of 23 May 2024, which introduced rentals, define a rental as every weapon in the collection, "excluding the rare special item". Renting a Fracture collection for a week gets you the Printstream to play with. It never gets you a knife.

The Skeleton and the Nomad are the two dearer models in this pool, and the table shows it at every level. The Skeleton's cheapest item was a Battle-Scarred Boreal Forest at $126.46, and its vanilla started at $245.49. The Nomad started at $79.86 for a Field-Tested Safari Mesh, with the vanilla at $142.39. For comparison, the Paracord and Survival vanillas sat at $60.00 and $57.00 in the next table. If you want to know why the Skeleton commands that premium in its own right, the Skeleton Knife guide covers the model in detail.

Lowest asking price on the Steam Community Market for each non-StatTrak item, read from Steam's market search on 29 October 2026 at about 06:50 UTC, in US dollars. The number in brackets is how many copies of that exact item were listed. "No listing" means Steam had none for sale that morning. These are asks, not completed sales.

Four patterns stand out once you read across the rows rather than down them.

Battle-Scarred is rarely much cheaper than Field-Tested. On the Nomad Safari Mesh, Field-Tested asked $79.86 and Battle-Scarred $83.78. On the Skeleton Scorched, Field-Tested was $154.70 and Battle-Scarred $164.45. On these finishes, wear below Field-Tested barely moved the price.

Factory New camo is thin and expensive. Many Factory New camo cells sit on one to five listings. The single Skeleton Night Stripe asked $808.11 against $182.32 in Field-Tested, and the lone Nomad Crimson Web asked $1,278.69 against $198.62. When one seller sets the whole row, that price tells you little about what the knife is worth. Two Skeleton camos, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT, had no Factory New listing at all.

Fade and Slaughter only appear in the better wears. Steam had Fade only in Factory New and Minimal Wear, and Slaughter only from Factory New to Field-Tested. The Skeleton Fade had real depth, with 42 Factory New copies starting at $635.00.

Case Hardened and Crimson Web are pattern finishes. Each copy looks different, and Steam's lowest listing tells you nothing about the pattern you would get. The cheapest Nomad Case Hardened in Field-Tested was $175.57. A copy with a sought-after pattern can ask far more, and this table does not try to price that.

The Paracord and the Survival are the cheap half of the pool, and the cheapest way to own any Fracture Case knife. Their floors sat within two dollars of each other. A Field-Tested Survival Knife Safari Mesh asked $47.19 with 66 copies listed, and the cheapest Paracord was a Well-Worn Safari Mesh at $49.00. These two models also had the most copies for sale: 1,341 non-StatTrak Survival listings and 1,321 Paracord listings across the 13 items, against 983 Nomad and 836 Skeleton.

Lowest asking price on the Steam Community Market for each non-StatTrak item, read from Steam's market search on 29 October 2026 at about 06:50 UTC, in US dollars. The number in brackets is how many copies of that exact item were listed. "No listing" means Steam had none for sale that morning. These are asks, not completed sales.

Read this table for value, not for its ceiling. The top of each column is where the misleading numbers live. The dearest asking price in the whole Fracture pool, $1,558.02, was a single Factory New Paracord Crimson Web, and the Survival's dearest was $1,153.37 for the same finish, from three listings. Those are the asks of a few holders of a scarce item, not market prices for a Paracord.

The useful part is the middle. Eight of the twelve finishes on each of these knives had a Field-Tested copy under $85, and 15 of those 16 rows had 30 or more listings, so you can choose the float and look instead of taking what one seller offers. The Fade was the one premium finish with real depth here: 83 Factory New Paracord Fades from $159.42, and 72 Survival Fades from $164.00.

Across all four knives, 80 of the 221 non-StatTrak items with a Steam listing asked under $100, 165 asked under $200, and only three asked more than the average cost of unboxing one (all three Factory New Crimson Webs). For the knives sitting below these, across every family in the game, the cheapest CS2 knife page tracks the live floor.

On venue: Steam is not the cheapest place to buy. My feed's third-party lowest listing for a Field-Tested Survival Knife Safari Mesh was $35.78 on the 10 November 2026 refresh, and the Paracord's $36.11. Steam prices include Valve's fees and can only be paid from a Steam Wallet. The tables use Steam because it is the one venue I could read for all 548 items in one morning. Treat them as a ceiling for comparing items, and check two or three venues before you pay.

Every open needs two things: a Fracture Case, which you buy from another player, and a Fracture Case Key, which only Valve sells. The key is the expensive half. Valve sells it in the in-game store for $2.49, the same figure this site's case-opening cost guide uses for every case. I could not read Valve's store price from outside the game, so that is where the $2.49 comes from. The key cannot be bought second-hand either: a Steam Market search for "Fracture Case" on 29 October returned the case and no key.

The case is cheap and plentiful. Steam's price summary gave a lowest listing of $0.49 on 29 October, with 164,234 copies listed. On the third-party venues my feed reads, it was $0.30 on the 10 November 2026 refresh. The site's price history shows how little it moves. The Fracture Case's lowest third-party listing was $0.45 on 31 July 2026, dipped to $0.35 in early August and September, and has drifted from $0.35 to $0.33 since mid-October (cs2skinprices.com price tracker, 31 July to 28 October 2026). There is a gap in that series between 13 September and 13 October. That band is 12 cents wide, on an item whose key costs $2.49.

Case: Steam Community Market lowest listing, 29 October 2026, and cs2skinprices.com feed lowest listing, 28 October 2026 refresh. Key: $2.49, Valve's in-game price. No bulk discount applies to either.

The key is 84% of a Steam-priced open and 88% of a feed-priced one. That is the whole story of the Fracture Case's cost: shopping around for the case saves you 16 cents an open, while the $2.49 is fixed. Over the 385 opens that make one knife on average, the venue for the case is worth $61.60, and the keys cost $958.65 either way.

Valve's tier odds put the gold slot at 0.26% per open, the same for every standard weapon case. They come from the disclosure Valve's Chinese partner Perfect World made for the game in China. GINX TV's case-odds explainer (Will Dowey, last updated 19 July 2024) reports the unrounded figure as 0.25575%, next to 79.92% Mil-Spec, 15.98% Restricted, 3.20% Classified and 0.64% Covert. The CS2 case opening odds page covers where those numbers come from and why each open is independent.

What Valve does not publish is how that 0.26% splits across the four knives, the 13 finishes or the wears. Nobody outside Valve can tell you the chance of a Skeleton, or of a Fade, from a Fracture Case. Any page quoting one is guessing. So the $1,147.30 average buys you a Fracture knife, drawn from a pool where most items are worth under $200.

Three numbers from that 0.26% matter here:

• 385 opens is the average wait for one gold item (1 ÷ 0.26% = 384.6).
• 63.3% is the chance of at least one knife in 385 opens. More than a third of people who spend $1,147.30 get nothing gold.
• 22.9% is the chance in 100 opens, which cost $298.00 at Steam prices.

Set those against the tables, family by family. These are the cheapest and dearest non-StatTrak Steam asks on 29 October, and the chart above plots the same eight against the average spend:

• Survival: from $47.19 (Safari Mesh, Field-Tested) to $1,153.37 (Crimson Web, Factory New, three listings). The average unboxing spend is 24 times its cheapest copy.
• Paracord: from $49.00 (Safari Mesh, Well-Worn) to $1,558.02 (Crimson Web, Factory New, one listing).
• Nomad: from $79.86 (Safari Mesh, Field-Tested) to $1,278.69 (Crimson Web, Factory New, one listing).
• Skeleton: from $126.46 (Boreal Forest, Battle-Scarred) to $808.11 (Night Stripe, Factory New, one listing). Even its vanilla, at $245.49, costs less than a quarter of the average spend.

The cheapest Survival in the pool cost the same as about 16 Steam-priced opens. Sixteen opens give you a 4.1% chance of any gold item at all. Buying gets you the exact knife, finish and float you chose, today.

Opening still has a place if the opening itself is the fun. The 99.74% of opens that are not gold return the case's weapon skins, and those resell for something. This page does not price the Fracture Case's 17 weapon finishes, so I will not put a number on that return. The CS2 cases hub explains how cases, keys and drops fit together, and the CS2 skin prices home page links every tracked item. Set a hard budget before you open, and ignore third-party sites offering cheaper Fracture openings, knife giveaways or deposit bonuses. This site does not cover or link to them, and none of them change Valve's 0.26%.