On November 9, 2026, three marketplaces sold 109,546 CS2 items between them. Most of those items went through one site. But if you follow the money instead of the item count, the picture changes: the same site took less than 60% of it.
The reason is the average sale. On one marketplace a typical item costs $17. On another it costs $38. Same game, same day, very different customers.
Last time we looked at which single items hold the most value in the market: Dragon Lore Is Not the Most Valuable Skin in CS2. This time we look at where the sales actually happen.
How we measured
All numbers come from the sales block on the CSMarketCap homepage, collected on November 9, 2026. For each marketplace CSMC shows the number of items sold today and their total value. We divided value by items to get the average sale. We compare MarketCSGO, DMarket and Skinport. These are one-day numbers and the day was not over when we took them, so treat them as a snapshot, not a final daily total. The 7-day figures are weekly totals from the same block.
The average sale: $17 against $38
Marketplace | Items sold today | Sales value today | Average sale |
|---|---|---|---|
MarketCSGO | 82,406 | $1,370,072 | $16.63 |
DMarket | 18,021 | $613,427 | $34.04 |
Skinport | 9,119 | $342,827 | $37.59 |
An average Skinport sale is 2.3 times bigger than an average MarketCSGO sale. DMarket sits closer to Skinport than to MarketCSGO, at 2.0 times.
75% of the items, 59% of the money
Put the three together and look at each one's share:
Marketplace | Share of items | Share of money |
|---|---|---|
MarketCSGO | 75.2% | 58.9% |
DMarket | 16.5% | 26.4% |
Skinport | 8.3% | 14.7% |
MarketCSGO is the volume machine: three of every four items sold across these sites. Skinport is the opposite. It sells 8% of the items and takes almost 15% of the money. The weekly totals say the same thing: MarketCSGO $10.35M, DMarket $4.00M, Skinport $2.54M, which is 61.3%, 23.7% and 15.0% of the $16.9M total.
What this means
The sites do not compete for the same basket. A marketplace with a $17 average is where people move cheap skins, small trades and quick swaps. A marketplace with a $38 average is where fewer, bigger purchases happen. The data shows the difference, not the reason, but it is likely a mix of different item catalogs and different buyers. It matters for the whole market too. The CS2 market cap is $5.19 billion, 40.5% below its $8.71 billion peak, and it is down 5.3% over 30 days. The daily money still flows mostly through cheap and mid-priced items, in line with what we found last week: the biggest piles of value sit in skins costing $50 to $200, not in Dragon Lores. Today's biggest gainers tell the same story. The top five risers on the homepage cost between $8 and $72 each, and four of them gained more than 16% in a day. Hype on a cheap skin moves volume fast.
Check the price before you buy
A cheap-skin marketplace and a premium one can list the same item at very different prices. Before you buy, compare them in one search. Open the CSMarketCap homepage to see today's sales by marketplace, or pick any item and find where it costs the least right now.
