Skinport vs CSFloat: Fees, Delivery, and Trust Compared

Skinport and CSFloat are two of the highest-rated CS2 marketplaces we track - effectively neck and neck on trust - and they're the two names that come up first whenever a CS2 player wants off the Steam Community Market and its 15% cut. Pick either and you're on a top-tier marketplace. The interesting question isn't which one is safe - both are - it's which one fits the way you actually trade.

Under the hood they're built on opposite ideas. Skinport is a bot-custody marketplace run by a German company: you hand your skins to its Steam bots, buyers get them instantly, and you cash out to a European bank account. CSFloat is peer-to-peer and tooling-first: your skins never leave your inventory until they sell, the seller fee is a quarter of Skinport's, and it sits on the largest public float database in CS2.

The fee headline is 8% versus 2%. The trade model is where you'll actually feel the difference. Here's how they split.

Seller fees

This is the number everyone leads with, and it's the biggest gap between the two.

Skinport takes 8% from sellers on items under EUR 1,000 and 6% above it, with a 2% rate reserved for private user-to-user sales. Buying costs nothing, and withdrawals to a SEPA account are free. Predictable, flat, a little expensive.

CSFloat charges 2% to sell - the lowest headline fee of any Western CS2 marketplace - and 0% to buy. The asterisk is the withdrawal fee, which scales with your lifetime sales: 2.5% until you've sold $2,500, sliding down to 0.5% past $100,000. So a first-time CSFloat seller is really paying about 4.5% all-in, not 2%, and a high-volume seller closer to 2.5%.

Even with that asterisk, CSFloat is the cheaper place to sell, and the gap grows with the price of the skin. Sell a $100 skin and you keep roughly $95.50 as a newcomer (or $97.50 at volume) on CSFloat, versus $92 on Skinport. Sell a $1,200 knife and CSFloat returns about $1,170 against Skinport's $1,128 at its 6% high-value tier.

The math only matters if you sell. If you mostly buy, skip the section: both charge buyers 0%, so the listed price is the price you pay.

Bot custody vs peer-to-peer

This is the real fork, and for a lot of traders it outweighs the fee.

Skinport holds your skins. Sellers deposit items into Skinport's Steam bots, which clear Valve's trade hold before a listing ever goes live. A buyer clicks, the bot sends the skin, and it lands in their inventory in under a minute - no human on the other end, no one needing to be online. Failed trades refund automatically. The price of that convenience: you give custody to the platform, you can't list more than 100 items at once, and a dormancy clause lets Skinport auto-list anything you leave untouched for 12 months (after 28 days of warning emails).

CSFloat leaves your skins with you. They stay in your own Steam inventory until they actually sell, so you keep custody - and you can keep running that knife in matchmaking while it's listed. The cost is speed: when an item sells you have to be online to send the trade, so delivery runs minutes to hours instead of seconds, and a slow seller can leave a buyer waiting. CSFloat also expects you to install its Market Checker extension (Chrome or Firefox) to inspect listings properly. Valve's 2025 shift to an 8-day escrow on third-party trades touched both models, but Skinport's pre-cleared bots and CSFloat's in-inventory listings each absorbed it without breaking the buying flow.

If you want a skin in your inventory this second, Skinport's bots win. If you won't hand your inventory to a third party - or you like keeping items playable while they're up for sale - CSFloat's P2P model is the whole point.

Cashout and payouts

Neither offers PayPal, which catches people off guard, but their payout menus barely overlap otherwise.

Skinport cashes out one way: SEPA bank transfer, no fee, 1 to 3 business days. For a European seller that's about as clean as it gets. For anyone outside the SEPA zone it's a wall - no crypto, no cards, no alternative. Every seller withdrawal requires KYC, with no small-amount exemption.

CSFloat pays out via USDT, USD, Payoneer, and Stripe. Payoneer plus crypto gives sellers outside Europe a real route that Skinport doesn't have, and KYC only kicks in for Payoneer and bank withdrawals, not basic trading. The catch is the tiered 0.5-2.5% withdrawal fee from above.

EU sellers with a SEPA bank will struggle to beat Skinport's free, direct-to-bank payout. Everyone else leans CSFloat.

Float hunting and tools

CSFloat didn't start as a marketplace. It began as FloatDB, a public skin database, plus a Market Checker browser tool - the storefront came later, and the analytical DNA shows. It indexes over 1.6 billion CS2 skins, runs an AI Float Appraiser for oddball items, a Trade-up Calculator, and supports auctions and bargaining (haggle on anything over $30 when the seller allows it). With around 20 million live listings and 10.4 million monthly visits, it's the largest Western CS2 marketplace on both counts, which makes it the deepest pool for chasing a specific float value, pattern index, or sticker combo. If you care whether a skin is 0.06 or 0.16 Field-Tested, this is the platform built for you.

Skinport is deliberately simpler: roughly 3 to 3.5 million listings and 3.5 million monthly visits, Europe's largest by listing count but a fraction of CSFloat's global scale. What it gives up in float-nerd tooling it makes back in a fast, clean buying flow, suggested pricing, and multi-game coverage - CS2, Rust, Dota 2, and TF2, where CSFloat is CS2-only. The moment you want to sell a Rust or Dota 2 item, Skinport is the only one of the two still in the conversation.

Trust Score and who runs each

Both rank at the very top of the category on Tested.gg, with near-identical scores, and the small gap between them is about structure, not safety. Trust Scores are recalculated daily, so treat any exact figure as a snapshot - each site's page shows the current number.

Skinport is run by Skinport GmbH, a registered German company in Stuttgart (HRB 764879) under CEO Tristan Milla, operating since 2019 with EU consumer-protection and PSD2 obligations and payments handled through Adyen. Trustpilot has it at 4.8 to 4.9 across 35,000-plus reviews, 91% five-star.

CSFloat is CSFloat Inc., a Delaware company in Dover, founded in 2020 by Stepan Fedorko-Bartos and Ceegan Hale - both named publicly, which counts for something in a category full of anonymous operators. Trustpilot sits at 4.8 across 7,000-plus reviews (91% five-star), still filed under the old csgofloat.com domain from the CS:GO era.

The gap comes down to the German GmbH's EU oversight and clear legal escalation path versus a standard US holding structure. Both are established and clean - this is two top-tier marketplaces, not a safe pick against a risky one.

Who should pick Skinport

Choose Skinport if you:

• Bank in the SEPA zone and want a free, direct-to-bank payout
• Want a skin delivered the instant you buy it, with no waiting on a seller
• Also trade Rust, Dota 2, or TF2 items
• Buy more than you sell (the 8% seller fee never touches purchases)
• Want a top-tier Trust Score and a German company on the hook

Who should pick CSFloat

Choose CSFloat if you:

• Sell often and want the lowest fee going (2%, about 2.5% all-in once you have volume)
• Won't hand custody of your inventory to a marketplace, or want skins playable while listed
• Hunt exact floats, patterns, or sticker combos and want the deepest listing pool in the West
• Use auctions or bargaining to buy and sell
• Are fine installing the Market Checker extension and waiting a little longer for delivery

The bottom line

These are the two best-scoring CS2 marketplaces we track, and the decision is convenience against cost.

Skinport is the smoother ride: instant bot delivery, a free SEPA payout, multi-game support, and a top-tier Trust Score, with an 8% seller fee as the toll. It's the call for EU buyers and anyone who would rather the platform handle the moving parts.

CSFloat is the cheaper, more hands-on option: a 2% fee, skins that stay yours until they sell, and float tooling and listing depth nobody else in the West matches, in exchange for a little speed and a browser extension. It's the call for active sellers, float hunters, and traders outside the SEPA zone.

There's no universal winner here - it comes down to where you bank, what you trade, and whether you're mostly buying or selling. For the wider field, see every CS2 trading site ranked by Trust Score, or read our Skinport vs DMarket breakdown for the multi-game angle.