CS.MONEY Review

In plain words: CS.MONEY is a CS2 skin site with two halves that work differently. In Trade mode you swap skins with the site's own bots, which its homepage says hold over 1 million items. In Market mode you buy from and sell to other players, or sell straight to the site with Instant Sell. There are no cases or games, so this is a shop, and what it costs you is fees and price gaps. Those gaps are much bigger on the bot side than on the Market side.

One rule matters before you add a cent: money you deposit can never be withdrawn as cash. Only money from selling skins can leave the site, and only after an ID check.

What each route costs

What you do	Cost
Sell to a player on Market	5% fee, or 3% on items of $1,000 and up
Sell to the site with Instant Sell	about 5% under market
Swap with the bot in Trade mode	7% base, plus 0% to 13% on trade-locked bot items
Buy on Market	typically about 3.8% above CSFloat
Top up a Steam Wallet from Trade mode	14%

The Market fees, the bot commission and the Steam Wallet fee are from CS.MONEY's own terms and FAQ, checked on 24 October 2026. The Instant Sell and CSFloat figures are from our September 2026 fee and price data.

Trade mode: fast swaps at the highest price

A trade bot is an automated Steam account that swaps with you on the spot, so you never wait for another player. CS.MONEY's FAQ says its bot items are priced 7% above the same items in your inventory. A "trade lock" is Steam's 7-day block on moving a skin after it changes hands. Bot items still under one cost an extra 0% to 13%, depending on how many days are left. Our fee data puts the typical loss on a bot swap at about 15%.

Locked items you take go into a "virtual inventory" on the site with a timer. You can trade them on straight away, but you can only pull them into Steam when the lock ends, and the terms give you 45 days after that before the item is turned back into Trade balance at that day's price. Cheap or unpopular skins can be refused as "Unavailable", and common ones as "Overstock" when the bots already hold too many.

You can add Trade balance by card ($1 to $5,000 per payment), PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto and local methods such as Pix and BLIK. CS.MONEY charges no fee on top-ups, but Trade balance can't be withdrawn or moved to Market. To trade at all you need Steam Guard's mobile authenticator active for 15 days (7 if you re-enabled it), a public inventory and a current trade link.

Market and Instant Sell: cheaper, but money waits a week

Selling to another player costs 5%, which is where CS.MONEY is cheapest. Listing needs the CS.MONEY Android app or its browser extension (Chrome or Yandex only), and you must let the site use your Steam session cookies so it can create the trade for you. When an item sells you have 12 hours to send it. Miss that and your listings go offline, and repeated misses can bring a 7-day block and a 4% fine.

Since July 2025 Steam lets either side reverse a CS2 trade for about a week ("Trade Protection"). CS.MONEY therefore holds sale money for 7 days (its terms say 8) before you can withdraw it.

Instant Sell is the site buying your skin at a fixed price it sets. The offer lasts 15 minutes and covers up to 10 items. The money first lands in an Instant Buy balance that you can spend at once on items marked for instant delivery. After $70 of instant sales whose protection has ended, you can cash out 15% of that total straight away, capped at $300 within 8 days. The rest waits the usual week.

Cashing out: KYC, Visa or PayPal, no crypto

KYC ("know your customer") is an ID check, and the terms require it before any withdrawal. The FAQ describes a document upload plus a short video of your face, usually done within 24 hours. The terms also allow requests for proof of income or source of funds. So "no KYC" is only true for trading.

Withdrawals go to Visa cards and, depending on your region, PayPal. Crypto is accepted for deposits but isn't listed as a way out. The terms set a $10 minimum and a $1,000 daily maximum, payment methods must be in your name, and processing is usually within 24 hours on business days and can take up to 7 business days. CS.MONEY charges no withdrawal fee, but the payment provider may. Cash-out isn't offered in some countries, so check the Cashout page before you sell.

Two smaller gotchas. An unused top-up can be refunded within 14 days, but not if you paid with crypto, Skrill, Neteller, Pix or Boleto. And after two years without a trade, the terms allow an inactivity fee of $1 a month against any balance left.

Who runs it, and the 2022 hack

CS.MONEY launched in 2016 and was founded by Pavel Dunaev. It sits in his Ex corp group with xplay.gg and Scope.gg. The terms, last updated 23 October 2025, name two companies: CS Virtual Trade Ltd. in Limassol, Cyprus (HE 389299) for Market mode and for EU users in Trade mode, and G2G Marketplace Limited in Hong Kong (3064044) for Trade mode users outside the EU. Market balances, the terms say, are held in escrow by third-party payment providers.

In August 2022 a hacker stole skins worth about $10 million from the platform, according to Forbes Russia as cited on Wikipedia. About half were recovered and the site was offline for a month while its security was reviewed.

Staying safe

CS.MONEY's FAQ warns that scammers copy its site and its bots to steal inventories. It says its real bots show as offline in Steam, are Steam level 25 or higher and use a custom profile URL, and you can look any bot up on its "Trade bots" page. If trades decline on their own, check for a Steam Web API key you didn't create and revoke it. Only grant session-cookie access on the real cs.money, and revoke it in your settings when you stop selling.

Reviews and size

CS.MONEY has 4.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 9,227 reviews. Recent five-star ones praise speed, with one September buyer getting a trade "like in 3 min". Traffic fell from about 10.4 million visits in March 2026 to 7.8 million in August, and no country tops 8%: the US is 7.3% and Brazil 6.9%.

Codes

Betrefs has no CS.MONEY code and no affiliate deal with it. Check any CS.MONEY code's terms on the site before relying on it.

How it compares

On Instant Sell, about 5% under market is among the best in our fee data: Lis-Skins is about 8%, DMarket 20% and Tradeit 23%. On bot swaps, about 15% matches Tradeit and is worse than SkinsMonkey at about 10%. On player-to-player selling, 5% sits between CSFloat (2%) and Skinport (8%).

Should you use it?

Sell here, by Market listing or Instant Sell, if you want cash on a Visa card or PayPal and accept KYC and the week-long hold. Use the bot when speed or one specific skin matters more than about 15% of the value. Don't deposit money you might want back as cash.