CS2TradeUp.gg vs csdb.gg: trade up calculators compared
Short answer: csdb.gg is strong on pattern data and games. For trade ups, CS2TradeUp.gg prices each wear separately instead of “lowest listing in any wear”, models the 5-Covert knife contract, lets you choose the fee and finds mixed-collection contracts.
| CS2TradeUp.gg | csdb.gg | |
|---|---|---|
| Prices | Steam Market + 9 marketplaces (Waxpeer, Tradeit, DMarket, White.Market, CS.TRADE, LIS-SKINS, HaloSkins, Skinport, Buff.Market), refreshed every 30–60 min; pick the source per contract | Lowest current listing for the skin in any wear (SteamWebAPI + Pricempire), hourly snapshot |
| Fees | 5 presets: none, Steam 13%, CSFloat 2%, Skinport 8%, Buff163 2.5% – or show both | Not mentioned on the calculator page |
| 5-Covert knife contract | Yes: 5 Covert → knife/gloves for all 43 cases, every pool priced | No – “knife and glove contracts are not modelled” |
| Finder | Yes: ~2,500 single-collection contracts, every two-collection mix, and “target a skin” (cheapest way to roll one skin) | Yes: single-collection contracts from case collections, hourly |
| Inventory import | Public profile link, no login: exact floats from Steam, contracts you can make now | Yes, Steam inventory import |
| Login | None, no account | Not required |
| Paid tier | None, all free | None stated |
| Extras | 1,000-roll simulator, price history, price alerts, trade up email alerts, tracker, share links, ~6,000 skin/sticker/case pages with odds | “Simulate 1,000 contracts”, case simulator, Blue Gem explorer, pattern database, arcade games |
Every row comes from the site’s own pages as read on 2026-10-20 – nothing from reviews or other third parties. Where a site does not state something, the cell says so. Tell us if something changed: contact@cs2tradeup.gg.
We run CS2TradeUp.gg, so read this as our view of the differences, not a neutral review. The csdb.gg column only repeats what their own pages say. The full table with eight sites is on the trade up sites comparison.
Related questions
Is csdb.gg free?
None stated. Login: not required. CS2TradeUp.gg has no paid tier and no account.
Does csdb.gg support the 5-Covert knife trade up?
No – “knife and glove contracts are not modelled”. CS2TradeUp.gg models it for all 43 cases with every knife and glove priced.
Which has the better trade up finder?
Yes: single-collection contracts from case collections, hourly. CS2TradeUp.gg scans about 2,500 single-collection contracts, every two-collection mix and a target-skin search, all without login.