The Cheapest USP-S Skins in CS2 (2026)

This list covers the cheapest USP-S skins in CS2, with the lowest price of every skin on SkinsMonkey on 31 October 2026 and the wear we would buy for each. The cheapest USP-S, the Forest Leaves, costs $0.10 in Field-Tested. Out of the 45 finishes in all USP-S skins on our WIKI, 16 start under $1 and 24 start under $5.

The most useful thing to know before you buy a cheap USP-S is that the worn wears are often only cents apart, so the cleanest copy can cost almost the same as the cheapest. On several skins even Factory New costs less than $2.50. Each section below goes up in price, names the skin we would pick and says where paying a little more gets you a much better wear.

How We Picked the Cheapest USP-S Skins

Cheapest here means the lowest price you can pay for the skin in any wear. Each section below is a price range by that number. Inside each section we name the copy we would buy and the wear we would buy it in, because the cheapest wear is often not the best value. Prices are SkinsMonkey prices checked on 31 October 2026, for normal copies only, not StatTrak or Souvenir, and they change with the market.

The USP-S was added in the Arms Deal update in 2013, and every rarity grade on it has a cheap entry point. Even the cheapest Covert USP-S starts under $40, and the cheapest Classified one under $4.

Our video shows every USP-S skin in game with the price range of each one on screen, so you can see what a 10 cent USP-S looks like next to the expensive ones before you pick.

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Under $0.30: The Cheapest USP-S Skins in CS2

Six USP-S skins start under 30 cents. Two of them, the Forest Leaves and the Night Ops, are only listed in the DreamHack 2013 and EMS One 2014 Souvenir packages on our WIKI, but normal copies of both are among the cheapest skins on the gun.

• USP-S | PC-GRN, starting at $0.16 in Well-Worn, from the Fever Case. Factory New costs only $1.29, the cheapest Factory New USP-S of all, and Minimal Wear $0.31.
• USP-S | Night Ops, starting at $0.18 in Battle-Scarred. Field-Tested costs $0.21 and Minimal Wear $0.40, so a clean copy is still under half a dollar.
• USP-S | Desert Tactical, starting at $0.20 in Battle-Scarred, from the Anubis packages. Field-Tested costs $0.25 and Minimal Wear $0.72.
• USP-S | 27, starting at $0.25 in Battle-Scarred, from the Gallery Case. Minimal Wear costs $0.55, but Factory New jumps to $6.14.
• USP-S | Silent Shot, starting at $0.28 in Battle-Scarred, from the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal. It had 857 copies listed on 31 October, more than any other USP-S. Minimal Wear costs $0.78 and Factory New $2.07.

$0.30 to $1: Ticket to Hell and the Cheap Factory New Skins

Ten more USP-S skins start between 30 cents and $1, and this is the range with the most choice. On several of them the whole range from Battle-Scarred to Factory New is about a dollar wide, so we would buy the cleanest copy.

• USP-S | Tropical Breeze, starting at $0.30 in Battle-Scarred, from the Boreal Collection. Factory New costs $1.56.
• USP-S | Alpine Camo, starting at $0.37 in Battle-Scarred, from the Sport & Field Collection. Every wear costs between $0.37 and $1.53, so Factory New is the obvious buy.
• USP-S | Check Engine, starting at $0.57 in Battle-Scarred, from the Inferno Souvenir packages. Factory New costs $1.79.
• USP-S | Royal Guard, starting at $0.58 in Battle-Scarred, the cheapest Restricted USP-S, from the Ascent Collection. Field-Tested costs $0.77, but Minimal Wear jumps to $3.08, so Field-Tested is the wear to buy.
• USP-S | Flashback, starting at $0.65 in Battle-Scarred, from the Danger Zone Case. Olive drab with “SHHH” stenciled on the silencer. Minimal Wear costs $0.92.
• USP-S | Torque, starting at $0.84 in Battle-Scarred, from the Falchion Case. Minimal Wear costs $1.39 and Factory New $1.94.
• USP-S | Lead Conduit, starting at $0.91 in Battle-Scarred, from the Operation Wildfire Case. Well-Worn costs $0.95 and Minimal Wear $2.55; Factory New is $14.45.
• USP-S | Black Lotus, starting at $0.93 in Battle-Scarred, from the Operation Riptide Case. Dark grey with a purple lotus on the slide. Minimal Wear costs $3.01, while Factory New costs $27.27.
• USP-S | Sleeping Potion, starting at $0.93 in Battle-Scarred, from the Harlequin Collection. Field-Tested costs $1.54 and Minimal Wear $4.56.

$1 to $5: Jawbreaker, Cortex and the Cheapest Classified Skins

Eight USP-S skins start between $1 and $5, including the two cheapest Classified ones. Here the gap between wears gets wider, so the choice of wear matters more.

• USP-S | Bleeding Edge, starting at $1.21 in Battle-Scarred, from the Radiant Collection. Field-Tested and Well-Worn are a cent apart at $1.33 and $1.32.
• USP-S | Guardian, starting at $3.43 in Field-Tested, from the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case. It only exists from Factory New to Field-Tested, and Minimal Wear costs $3.69, so take Minimal Wear.
• USP-S | Purple DDPAT, starting at $3.48 in Battle-Scarred, from the Mirage Souvenir packages. The three worn wears cost within 3 cents of each other.
• USP-S | Blood Tiger, starting at $3.60 in Field-Tested, from the eSports 2014 Summer Case. It also stops at Field-Tested, and Minimal Wear costs $3.62, two cents more.
• USP-S | Cortex, starting at $4.14 in Battle-Scarred, from the Clutch Case. Pink lettering along the silencer and our pick under $5 in the best USP-S skins. Field-Tested costs $4.70.
• USP-S | Cyrex, starting at $4.26 in Battle-Scarred, from the Glove Case. White and grey with red accents, so we would pay for Minimal Wear at $7.68.
• USP-S | Blueprint, starting at $4.88 in Battle-Scarred, from the Operation Hydra Case. Every worn wear costs about $5, but Factory New costs $127.26.

The Cheapest Covert USP-S Skins

The USP-S has four Covert skins, the top grade in a weapon case, and the cheapest of them starts at $38.89. In Battle-Scarred, The Traitor and the Printstream are within about $3 of each other.

• USP-S | Printstream, starting at $41.60 in Battle-Scarred, from the Recoil Case. White with black print blocks, so the white turns grey on worn copies. Field-Tested at $49.81 is the lowest we would go.
• USP-S | Kill Confirmed, starting at $79.01 in Battle-Scarred, from the Shadow Case. Red with a skull on the slide. We would take Field-Tested at $90.99, about $12 more than the cheapest copy, because the skull stays sharper.
• USP-S | Neo-Noir, starting at $138.92 in Well-Worn, from the Spectrum Case. Every wear costs between $138.92 and $151.50, so the Neo-Noir is never cheap, and if you buy one, buy Factory New.

The Ten Cheapest USP-S Skins at a Glance

The ten cheapest USP-S skins by their lowest price, in one list.

Which Wear to Buy on a Cheap USP-S

On most cheap USP-S skins, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred cost almost the same, so buy the cleanest of the three. On many of them Minimal Wear or even Factory New is only a little more. The Forest Leaves costs $0.10 in Field-Tested and $0.17 in Minimal Wear, and the Alpine Camo costs $1.53 in Factory New against $0.37 in Battle-Scarred.

The exception is Factory New on a few skins, where the price jumps: the 27 costs $0.55 in Minimal Wear and $6.14 in Factory New, and the Black Lotus $3.01 and $27.27. On those, Minimal Wear is the sweet spot. Also check the most worn copy before you assume it is the cheapest: on the Business Class and the Neo-Noir, Battle-Scarred costs more than Well-Worn. For the skins where Factory New runs into hundreds of dollars, see our list of the most expensive USP-S skins, and our guide to CS2 wear levels has the float ranges.

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How to Get a Cheap USP-S

Most cheap USP-S skins drop from a case, but at these prices opening a case for one specific skin costs more than buying it. Several of them also belong to collections for which our WIKI lists no case at all, such as the Alpine Camo, Tropical Breeze and Royal Guard. Trade-up contracts are another route, and our CS2 trade-up guide explains how they work.

Trading is the direct way to get a specific USP-S in a specific wear. On SkinsMonkey you log in through Steam, add skins from your inventory, pick the USP-S and the bot sends the trade offer, and you can check the float of each copy first. If you want to know what your inventory is worth before you trade, our CS2 Inventory Value Checker shows it in about a minute. For our picks by looks at every budget, see the best USP-S skins, and for the top of the market, the most expensive USP-S skins.

Our pick from each price range

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Bottom line

Forest Leaves is the cheapest, Ticket to Hell is the one we would buy

The cheapest USP-S skin in CS2 is the Forest Leaves, at $0.10 in Field-Tested on SkinsMonkey on 31 October 2026. Sixteen of the 45 USP-S skins start under $1, and on most of them a cleaner wear costs only a little more.

For a little over two dollars, a Factory New Ticket to Hell at $2.41 is the cheap USP-S we would buy. If you want a Covert skin, The Traitor starts at $38.89, and the cheapest Classified, the Jawbreaker, at $3.99.

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