The record book of CS2 superlatives
The most expensive and rarest CS2 skins, on the record.
A dated record book of CS2's priciest and rarest skins — confirmed sales, refused offers and open listings kept apart — plus the market's crash-and-recovery timeline, drawn to scale.
The three biggest figures in the game
Sale, offer and listing kept apart — the whole board is on the most expensive CS2 skins.
The market’s record, to scale
Full timeline →Third-party market capitalisation, billions of USD. Peak-to-trough and recovery points from steamanalyst, steamdb and pricempire reporting; figures vary by source and method, so these are our working bands, dated on the axis.
The vault
Record-tier skins at a glance
Grails, contraband, pattern lotteries and the two Katowice 2014 stickers that outprice most knives.
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record fileGrailboard is a record book, not a price ticker. It keeps the biggest numbers in CS2 skins in one place — the most expensive CS2 skins ever sold, the rarest items in the game, and the market's own crash-and-recovery history — and it files each one honestly: as a confirmed sale, a refused offer, or an open listing.
That distinction is the whole point. The headline you have read a hundred times — “the $1.5 million knife” — is an offer that was turned down, not a sale. The record that actually happened is quieter: a StatTrak AK-47 Case Hardened, pattern #661, sold privately in 2024 for a figure the broker put above a million dollars. Both belong in a record book. Only one is a price.
Every figure here is a band with the date we checked it, because a static page cannot honestly quote a live market, and because record-tier items rarely trade at a single number anyway. Where a record cannot be verified, we say so rather than round it up.
Start with the ranked record board, follow the CS2 skin market cap over time, or browse the almanac below. One rule we will never break: no scam is linked anywhere on this site.