The Glove Case is a CS2 container released on November 28, 2016, alongside the Brothers In Arms update, and the first case in the game's history to introduce gloves: inside are 17 weapon skins across four rarity tiers, plus a separate rare pool made up entirely of gloves — 24 finishes across all six models, no knives at all. The case itself costs around $11.35 on the market, and a fresh key costs $2.49 in the US Steam region, so each attempt costs about $13.84. Prices inside swing wildly: from a few cents for common skins like P2000 | Turf to Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze in Factory New, which costs almost $27,000 — one of the most expensive ordinary glove pulls in the game. Below we break down what's actually inside, the odds at each rarity, and whether opening this case makes sense if you're counting the dollars.
What's Inside the Glove Case
Two Covert-rarity skins — SSG 08 | Dragonfire and M4A4 | Buzz Kill — are unusually expensive for a case's regular pool: Dragonfire runs from $255 for Battle-Scarred to $370 for Factory New, and Buzz Kill's range is similar, from $244 to $521. That's noticeably above the typical Covert range in most CS2 cases. Three tiers down, in Classified, sit FAMAS | Mecha Industries, P90 | Shallow Grave, and Sawed-Off | Wasteland Princess: prices here are more modest, roughly $28 to $129. All 17 weapon skins in the Glove Case also exist in StatTrak versions, which usually cost more than the regular ones, whereas StatTrak doesn't exist for gloves at all.
The remaining twelve skins make up the bulk of the case. Five Restricted finishes — Dual Berettas | Royal Consorts, G3SG1 | Stinger, M4A1-S | Flashback, Nova | Gila, and USP-S | Cyrex — run roughly $3 to $148, with Flashback carrying the widest spread. Seven Mil-Spec finishes — CZ75-Auto | Polymer, Glock-18 | Ironwork, MP7 | Cirrus, Galil AR | Black Sand, MP9 | Sand Scale, MAG-7 | Sonar, and P2000 | Turf — trade for a few cents at almost any wear. The two bottom rarities that hold these twelve skins account for a combined 95.9% of all openings.
The Rare Drop: Gloves Across All Six Models, No Knife
The Glove Case was the first CS2 case with gloves in it, and it remains one of the few containers where the gold rarity is dedicated entirely to gloves, with no knife at all. Here, 24 finishes are split evenly across all six models — Bloodhound, Driver, Hand Wraps, Moto, Specialist, and Sport — four each. The price range is one of the widest in the game: from Bloodhound Gloves | Bronzed at around $60 for Battle-Scarred to Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze, which in Factory New costs almost $27,000 — only 3 listings exist on the market right now. None of the 24 gloves has a StatTrak version; that mechanic doesn't exist for gloves at all.
Odds by Rarity
Standard CS2 weapon cases, the Glove Case included, typically use the following disclosed Valve odds:
Mil-Spec Grade — 79.92%.
Restricted — 15.98%.
Classified — 3.2%.
Covert — 0.64%.
The rare special item, meaning gloves — 0.26%. Different trackers round this slightly differently, but for the Glove Case that's roughly once every 385 to 391 case openings, and the odds of pulling one specific finish out of the 24, assuming equal odds for each, come out to about 1 in 9,300 openings.
What It Costs to Open the Glove Case
The case itself currently costs around $11.35 on the market. The Glove Case dropped out of the active weekly free-reward pool long ago, but its exact status beyond that is disputed among trackers: some sources still classify it as part of a rarer pool of old cases and say it can still drop, just at an extremely low probability, others report that mechanism stopped producing results too around January 2026, and still others mark the case itself as discontinued as of December 2025. Valve hasn't issued any official clarification. Given that uncertainty, and the vanishingly low odds either way, in practice the vast majority of players just buy the Glove Case on the market. You can't open the case without a Glove Case Key: a fresh key, bought directly through Steam at the moment you open the case, costs $2.49 in the US Steam region (often rounded to $2.50; other currencies have their own regional price). That key is bound to your account and can't be resold, but that doesn't matter for opening the case: add $2.49 for the key to the case's price, and one attempt costs roughly $13.84 total.
Separately, you can find old, still-tradeable copies of the Glove Case Key on the market for roughly $15 to $27 — these are rare units minted before October 2019, when Valve fully banned transferring new keys between accounts. You don't need those to open the case, and there's no advantage to buying one: it's simpler and cheaper to just buy a fresh key through Steam every time.
Is the Glove Case Worth Opening
By the raw math, the Glove Case, like any CS2 case, isn't built to turn a profit on average: roughly 95.9% of openings land on one of the two bottom rarities (Mil-Spec plus Restricted), and most of those results are worth noticeably less than the $13.84 cost of opening, let alone less than the case's expensive outcomes — Covert skins and gloves. Current tracker estimates put the average value of what you actually pull noticeably below the cost of opening; the exact ROI shifts with market prices and depends on the calculation method, but mathematically the Glove Case remains negative on expected return. If the goal is one specific skin or one specific glove finish, it's cheaper and more reliable to just buy it directly: the odds of landing one specific finish out of the 24, assuming equal odds for each, come out to about 1 in 9,300 openings, which is how trackers actually calculate it. Since the 2025 trade-up contract expansion, gloves can also be obtained through a contract of five regular Covert skins; the result depends on the rare-special-item pools tied to the skins used, so the contract itself doesn't guarantee a specific model or finish from the Glove Case. Opening the Glove Case makes sense as entertainment with a clear, modest stake — about $13.84 per attempt — or for the novelty of it being one of the first, and still one of the few, cases where the rare drop is guaranteed to be gloves rather than a knife.
Glove Case Economics by Rarity
All five rarity tiers in one table, from the most common outcome to the rarest:
| Rarity | Odds | Price Range |
|---|---|---|
| Mil-Spec Grade | 79.92% | $0.30 to $42 |
| Restricted | 15.98% | $3 to $148 |
| Classified | 3.2% | $28 to $129 |
| Covert | 0.64% | $244 to $521 |
| Gloves (rare drop) | 0.26% | $60 to $27,000 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a knife in the Glove Case?
No. The Glove Case's rare slot is dedicated entirely to gloves — 24 finishes across all six models. It's the first CS2 case where gloves appeared at all, and it remains one of the few cases where the gold rarity doesn't include a knife.
What does it cost to open the Glove Case?
Right now the case itself costs around $11.35, and a fresh key bought directly through Steam costs $2.49 in the US region (other currencies have their own regional price). Altogether one attempt costs roughly $13.84. The old tradeable keys selling for $15 to $27 on the market aren't needed for this — they cost more and offer no advantage.
Is it worth opening the case for the gloves?
The odds of pulling gloves are 0.26%, or roughly once every 385 to 391 openings, and assuming equal odds for each of the 24 finishes, the odds of landing one specific one come out to around 1 in 9,300. If you want a specific finish, it's cheaper and more reliable to just buy it directly on the market; opening the case only makes sense if the process itself matters more than a guaranteed result.
What's the most valuable item in the Glove Case?
Among regular market copies, it's Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze in Factory New, currently around $27,000 with only 3 listings available. It's one of the most expensive ordinary glove pulls across every CS2 case.
