CS2TradeUp.gg vs steamdb.com: trade up calculators compared
Short answer: steamdb.com is a quick free check with fee-included prices. CS2TradeUp.gg adds the knife contract, per-wear prices from eight marketplaces, mixed-collection and target search, inventory import and alerts.
| CS2TradeUp.gg | steamdb.com | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Cheapest fee-included ask quoted on at least two markets; snapshot (“Updated 9 h ago” when we checked) |
| Fees | 5 presets: none, Steam 13%, CSFloat 2%, Skinport 8%, Buff163 2.5% – or show both | Asks are fee-included; no toggle |
| 5-Covert knife contract | Yes: 5 Covert → knife/gloves for all 43 cases, every pool priced | No – standard 10-input contracts only |
| Finder | Yes: ~2,500 single-collection contracts, every two-collection mix, and “target a skin” (cheapest way to roll one skin) | Daily top-20 board of single-collection contracts |
| Inventory import | Public profile link, no login: exact floats from Steam, contracts you can make now | Not mentioned |
| Login | None, no account | None |
| Paid tier | None, all free | None |
| Extras | 1,000-roll simulator, price history, price alerts, trade up email alerts, tracker, share links, ~6,000 skin/sticker/case pages with odds | Gainers/drops lists, case EV rankings, market index posts. Not affiliated with Valve or steamdb.info |
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 steamdb.com column only repeats what their own pages say. The full table with eight sites is on the trade up sites comparison.
Related questions
Is steamdb.com free?
None. Login: none. CS2TradeUp.gg has no paid tier and no account.
Does steamdb.com support the 5-Covert knife trade up?
No – standard 10-input contracts only. CS2TradeUp.gg models it for all 43 cases with every knife and glove priced.
Which has the better trade up finder?
Daily top-20 board of single-collection contracts. CS2TradeUp.gg scans about 2,500 single-collection contracts, every two-collection mix and a target-skin search, all without login.