CSFloat Review

In plain words: CSFloat is a website where CS2 players buy skins from each other and sell them for real money. You buy with a site balance, and the seller, another player, sends you the skin in an ordinary Steam trade offer. When you sell, CSFloat keeps 2% of the price and lets you withdraw the rest to a bank, a debit card or crypto. There are no cases or bets here.

Who runs it

CSFloat Inc. runs the market. Its founders are Stepan Fedorko-Bartos (Step7750) and Ceegan Hale (FloatGoat), who built the CSGOFloat float-checking tools before opening the market as CSGOFloat Market in 2020. It renamed itself CSFloat in July 2023. Its terms, last updated 12 May 2026, fall under Delaware law and give a postal address in Dover, Delaware.

The browser extension sellers use to prove a trade was sent is open source on GitHub. CSFloat had about 14.8 million visits in August 2026, down from 20.5 million in March, and the US is its largest market at about 16%.

Selling: 2% plus a fee to cash out

CSFloat's FAQ, read on 24 October 2026, says it takes 2% of the price when an item sells. There is a second fee when you move the money out, which falls as your total sales grow:

Total you have sold	Withdraw fee
Under $2,500	2.5%
$2,500	2.0%
$10,000	1.5%
$50,000	1.0%
$100,000	0.5%

Payouts in a currency other than US dollars or USDC can cost another 0.6% to 1%.

So a new seller who sells a $100 skin gets $98 in balance, and $95.55 in a US bank account. Someone with $100,000 of sales behind them gets $97.51. If you spend the balance on another skin instead, there is no withdraw fee at all.

Even at the top withdraw rate, the 4.45% a new seller loses in total is a little over half of what Skinport takes (8%). The Chinese markets are cheaper to sell on: YouPin takes 1% and Buff163 1.5%. The Steam Market takes 13% and pays in Steam Wallet funds, which you can't withdraw. CSFloat's terms do allow it to charge a seller fee of "up to 5.0%", so 2% is its current price, not a contractual limit.

Buying: the price we measure everyone else against

Buyers pay no fee on the sale itself. Betrefs uses CSFloat as the 0% price benchmark for every trading site we cover. In our September 2026 price data, this is the typical extra a buyer pays elsewhere for the same skin:

Market	Fee to sell	Typical buy price vs CSFloat
YouPin	1%	0.9% higher
Buff163	1.5%	1.6% higher
BUFF.Market	2.5%	3.1% higher
Skinport	8%	7% higher
Steam Market	13%	42.6% higher

These are averages, so single skins vary. Of all the trading sites in our data, only RapidSkins is cheaper on average, by 0.1%.

What CSFloat does better than the rest is search. You can filter listings and set buy orders by float (how worn a skin is, from 0 for like new to 1 for battle-scarred), paint seed (the number that sets a skin's pattern), stickers or charm pattern. Buy orders can be worth up to 10 times your balance in total. There are also auctions, which sellers unlock after at least 3 sales totalling over $250, and offers, where buyers ask for a discount and sellers set a minimum.

To pay, you can use a card, a bank debit or crypto, with a $20 minimum for crypto. Card payments cost more. When CSFloat last published its deposit fees, in February 2023, cards were 2.8%, US ACH bank debits 1.5% and SEPA debits 3.3%. We couldn't find current rates. One Trustpilot reviewer in September 2026 wrote that card fees were steep, "255 euros are 240 euros", and told others to pay with crypto. That is a single report, not a published rate. ACH debits and iDEAL need KYC (an identity check through Sumsub), and support can ask for it on card payments too. Payments don't work from Norway or US-sanctioned countries.

One rule surprises new users: you can only withdraw money that came from your own sales. Deposit $10 and sell $20 of skins, and the most you can take out is $20. Money you put in is for buying skins.

How a trade works, and the 8-day wait

Because sellers are players, a trade depends on a person being there. When you buy, the seller has to accept the sale. If they haven't after 30 minutes, you can cancel. Once they accept, the FAQ gives them 2 hours to send the trade offer, and it must stay open for 18 hours. If it never comes, you are refunded automatically. Buyers who decline the offer after the seller has accepted get a 4% fine and a warning.

To sell you need the Steam Mobile Authenticator set up for at least 15 days and a public inventory. You also need the CSFloat extension or app running so the site can see that the trade went through. A seller who leaves a sale unaccepted for over 24 hours and is then cancelled on pays 5% of the price.

The wait is the main downside. Since Steam's Trade Protection update, a trade can be reversed for about 7 days, so CSFloat credits sellers about 8 days after the buyer accepts. One September 2026 Trustpilot reviewer, who said the buyer gets the skin right away, gave 4 stars instead of 5 because the seller waits. The FAQ says anyone who reverses a CSFloat trade on Steam is banned for good and forfeits the proceeds of that trade.

Getting your money out

All payouts go through Stripe, which you sign up with before your first one. Depending on your country, you can pick a bank transfer, a debit card or USDC on the Polygon network. The FAQ says each usually settles within 2 business days, and US debit cards can be paid from about 30 minutes. Payouts start at $5 in most countries and come in more than 115 currencies.

The risks to know before you sell

• No regulator stands behind it. CSFloat is a marketplace, not a gambling site, and names no licence or regulator. Disputes go to binding individual arbitration under Delaware law, and you give up class actions.
• A ban can cost you your balance. The terms say a permanently closed account forfeits its balance where the law allows. Bans for trade reversals, chargebacks or KYC fraud are not lifted on appeal.
• Scammers target sellers. CSFloat's FAQ lists a Steam API key scam as one reason a seller ends up sending an item to the wrong user. Type csfloat.com yourself and never paste your Steam API key into a site you reached from a link.
• Minors can use it with a parent. Users under 18 need a parent or guardian to agree to the terms and do the KYC for them.

Trust and reviews

CSFloat has 4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 9,556 reviews. In the dozen recent ones in our data, the complaints are the card fee, the wait for sale money and a selling side that one 2-star seller called not "the best". None of them says an item or a payout went missing.

Betrefs has no CSFloat code and no affiliate deal with CSFloat.

Should you use CSFloat?

Check here first when you buy, and use the search when the float or pattern matters. Sell here if you can wait about 8 days for the money and you are around to send trade offers. If you would rather not send trade offers yourself, an escrow market such as Skinport does that part for you, for 8%.