Best CS2 Agent Skins (2026): Top T and CT Side Picks

This guide covers the agent skins in CS2 and our picks in four budgets, from $3.87 for the cheapest agent to $92.53 for the most expensive one. Our WIKI lists all CS2 agents with current prices, side and rarity, 63 of them. All prices on this page come from SkinsMonkey and were checked on November 5, 2026. We also read every CS2 update Valve posted between May and November 2026. None of them added an agent, so the last new agents are still the ones from Operation Riptide in 2021.

An agent replaces the default T side or CT side player model. It decides the sleeves you see in first person, the model other players see during the round and the figure next to your buy menu. Agents have no wear, float or StatTrak, so every copy of one agent looks the same. Every agent below can be traded for with the skins you already own on SkinsMonkey.

How We Picked These CS2 Agents

Our picks are based on how each agent looks in game, within each budget, with prices from SkinsMonkey on November 5, 2026. An agent belongs to the bracket of its From price, the cheapest copy on SkinsMonkey that day. The brackets are under $10, $10 to $25, $25 to $50 and above $50. Inside each one we looked at the sleeves first, because they are the part of an agent you see all match, then at the full model in the buy menu. We named one top pick per bracket and said for each agent whether it plays on the T side or the CT side, because a T side agent never shows up on the CT side.

The tables show the price on November 5 next to current From and Up to prices. Agents do not drop and do not come from cases, so the number of copies is fixed and some prices move fast. Check the current price before you trade.

Our video shows agents for every budget in game. It was recorded earlier in 2026, so the prices on screen are older than the ones on this page.

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Four Rarities, Three Operations and No New Agents Since 2021

Every agent in CS2 came from one of three operations. You earned stars from weekly missions and spent them on agents in the operation shop. No agent has ever been in a weapon case, and our WIKI lists no case for any of the 63. The operations are over, so agents now change hands only through trades and the Steam Community Market.

1. Nov 18, 2019 Operation Shattered Web adds the first 22 agents.
2. Feb 24, 2020 Patches arrive, stickers for the body of an agent.
3. Dec 3, 2020 Operation Broken Fang adds 20 agents.
4. Sep 21, 2021 Operation Riptide adds 21 agents, the last ones.
5. Oct 2, 2026 Agents wear your gloves in the buy menu.

Agents have their own four rarity levels, different from the ones used for weapons. From the lowest to the highest:

• Distinguished (blue): 16 agents, 9 on the CT side and 7 on the T side.
• Exceptional (purple): 16 agents, 8 on each side.
• Superior (pink): 15 agents, 6 CT and 9 T.
• Master (red): 16 agents, 6 CT and 10 T.

The T side has 34 agents and the CT side 29. The T factions are Phoenix, Sabre, the Elite Crew, The Professionals and Guerrilla Warfare. On the CT side you get the FBI, SWAT, the SAS and NZSAS, the KSK, the NSWC SEAL and SEAL Frogman, the USAF TACP, the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Brazilian 1st Battalion. In the Riptide shop a Distinguished agent cost 5 stars and a Master agent 25, so rarity tells you what an agent cost in the operation. It does not tell you what it costs today, as the section on rarity and price shows.

Patches are the only way to change how one agent looks. They work like stickers for the body and can be scraped off, but a removed patch is gone. Our WIKI lists 114 patches, and the newest packs are the three from the Stockholm 2021 Major.

The one agent change of 2026 came on October 2. Since that update the agent in the buy menu and in the pet photo booth wears the gloves you have equipped, which our news post on gloves in the buy menu and the photo booth covers in full. You now see your agent and your gloves together at the start of every round. If you want to match an agent to your chicken as well, our chicken photo booth guide pairs an agent with each of the 34 chicken colors.

Under $10: Slingshot, the Rezans and the Cheapest Agents in CS2

Twenty of the 63 agents started under $10 on November 5, ten on each side. Fifteen of them come from Shattered Web, the first and largest agent set, which is why it is the cheapest one today. At this price the difference between agents is mostly color, so pick the one that fits your loadout.

Seven more under $10:

• Enforcer | Phoenix: the cheapest agent in CS2 on November 5 at $3.87. A plain Phoenix gunman from Shattered Web, Distinguished and T side.
• Rezan the Redshirt | Sabre: one red sleeve and one beige sleeve, which Valve explains with the line that he wears his rage on his sleeves. Superior, Broken Fang, T side, $8.02.
• Rezan The Ready | Sabre: the same Sabre grenadier in darker colors from Shattered Web. Superior for $4.86, the cheapest Superior agent in the game.
• Blackwolf | Sabre: brown sleeves that fit tan and rust colored skins. Superior, T side, $7.83.
• For the CT side, B Squadron Officer | SAS wears green camo and fits a military loadout. Distinguished, $9.41.
• Operator | FBI SWAT: bright green sleeves that go with green knives and gloves. Distinguished, CT side, $8.09.
• Markus Delrow | FBI HRT: a darker green than the Operator, for a quieter look. Exceptional, CT side, $9.37.

$10 to $25: Ava, Romanov and Master Agents for Under $25

This is the bracket where Master agents get cheap. Seven of the 16 Master agents started under $25 on November 5, and two of them, The Doctor Romanov and The Elite Mr. Muhlik, cost less than some Distinguished agents. Most of the CT side picks here are blue, so they are an easy match for blue gloves and knives.

Nine more we like in this range:

• ‘The Doctor’ Romanov | Sabre: the Sabre leader with a luxury criminal look, Master rarity for $12.31. T side, Shattered Web.
• The Elite Mr. Muhlik | Elite Crew: the cheapest Master agent in the game at $11.62. An Elite Crew boss from Shattered Web for the price of a Distinguished agent. T side.
• Michael Syfers | FBI Sniper: plain black sleeves that work with any vanilla knife. Superior, CT side, $12.22.
• Lt. Commander Ricksaw | NSWC SEAL: no sleeves at all, so your gloves are fully in view. Master, CT side, $18.01.
• Cmdr. Mae ‘Dead Cold’ Jamison | SWAT: dark blue sleeves on a SWAT commander from Broken Fang. Master, CT side, $17.03.
• ‘Blueberries’ Buckshot | NSWC SEAL: blue camo that fits blue camo knives and gloves. Exceptional, CT side, $14.69.
• Officer Jacques Beltram | Gendarmerie Nationale: a blue Gendarmerie officer from Riptide, with more detail on the sleeves than Ava. Exceptional, $18.37.
• Lieutenant ‘Tree Hugger’ Farlow | SWAT: woodland camo for green loadouts. Exceptional, CT side, $14.86.
• On the T side, Trapper Aggressor | Guerrilla Warfare wears a tan shemagh that fits brown and desert colors. Distinguished, Riptide, $20.46.

$25 to $50: Wet Sox, Vypa Sista and the Darryl Family

From $25 up, most agents come from Broken Fang and Riptide, the two smaller sets. This bracket also holds most of the Darryl family from The Professionals, who all share the same leader with a different outfit.

Six more picks in this bracket:

• Cmdr. Davida ‘Goggles’ Fernandez | SEAL Frogman: the other Frogman Master from Riptide, cheaper than Wet Sox at $33.36. Valve says she got her nickname after a bullet hit her left eye.
• Vypa Sista of the Revolution | Guerrilla Warfare: tattoos and one of the most recognizable models on the T side. Master, Riptide, $46.86.
• Sir Bloody Silent Darryl | The Professionals: Darryl in a dark outfit that fits black loadouts. Master, Broken Fang, $43.04.
• Sir Bloody Skullhead Darryl | The Professionals: adds a gold watch and a gold bracelet to the look, for gold skins. Master, $28.72.
• Bloody Darryl The Strapped | The Professionals: Darryl before he became Sir, from Riptide. Superior, T side, $25.61.
• Jungle Rebel | Elite Crew: a green Elite Crew rebel in sunglasses, close to the classic CS look. Distinguished, Riptide, $25.69.

Above $50: Miami Darryl, Number K and the Most Expensive Agents

Only six agents started above $50 on November 5, four on the T side and two on the CT side. Four of them are not Master agents at all.

Five more at the top:

• Sir Bloody Loudmouth Darryl | The Professionals: the second most expensive Darryl at $69.83. Master, Broken Fang.
• Number K | The Professionals: a white shirt under a black vest and the pantyhose mask over his face. The white sleeves make him the first pick for an all white loadout. Superior, $60.66.
• Getaway Sally | The Professionals: white sleeves like Number K with a more stylish outfit. Exceptional, T side, $84.21.
• D Squadron Officer | NZSAS: dark sleeves and red goggles from Riptide. Distinguished, the lowest rarity, and still $86.38.
• Primeiro Tenente | Brazilian 1st Battalion: green jungle camo, the most expensive CT agent at $89.02. Also Distinguished, also Riptide.

Our white CS2 loadout builds a full inventory around the white sleeves of Number K and Getaway Sally.

Sleeves and Gloves: What You See of an Agent in First Person

The sleeves are the agent. In first person you see your arms and nothing else, so the sleeves decide how an agent looks to you for the whole match. White sleeves like those of Number K stand out, dark sleeves like those of Wet Sox Baroud step back and leave the gloves and the knife in front. Lt. Commander Ricksaw goes further and has no sleeves at all.

The buy menu shows the whole model. Since October 2 the agent next to the buy menu wears your gloves, so you see the full outfit and the gloves together every round. A loud outfit like Miami Darryl needs gloves in a color that does not fight it.

Two colors can be one agent. Rezan the Redshirt has a red sleeve and a beige one, so you get a different color on each hand. It is the cheapest way to get a model that looks unusual in first person.

Dark models look plain from a distance. Agents are cosmetic, but many players still pick dark CT models like D Squadron Officer and dark T models like Silent Darryl because they like how they look on darker maps.

Rarity Does Not Set the Price of an Agent

Rarity told you how many stars an agent cost in the operation shop. It says little about the price today. On November 5 the two most expensive CT agents, Primeiro Tenente and D Squadron Officer, were both Distinguished, the lowest rarity. Getaway Sally, an Exceptional agent, cost more than every Master agent except Miami Darryl.

The number of copies explains part of it. Our WIKI showed 8 trade offers for Primeiro Tenente and 11 for D Squadron Officer, against 60 for The Doctor Romanov and 68 for The Elite Mr. Muhlik, two Master agents that cost about $12. Shattered Web agents are the cheapest set overall, and the cheapest agent on the CT side, ‘Two Times’ McCoy | USAF TACP, came from it at $5.77.

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How to Get a CS2 Agent in 2026

There is no case, drop or operation that gives agents today. The last operation shop closed with the end of Riptide in February 2022, so every agent in the game already exists and changes owner through trades. You can buy one on the Steam Community Market or trade for it with skins you own.

Trading is the direct route when you want one specific agent. Check what your current skins are worth with our free CS2 Inventory Value Checker. It prices skins by wear, StatTrak and Souvenir, but not stickers, patches, float or pattern, and items without a price count as $0. Then trade toward the agent on SkinsMonkey, where trades with our bots go through instantly. Steam needs $5 spent on your account before you can trade. Traded CS2 items are under Valve’s Trade Protection for 7 days, and a trade can be reversed within those 7 days.

Our top pick in each budget

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Bottom line

Pick the agent for its sleeves and your side, then look at the price, not the rarity.

Under $10, Slingshot | Phoenix gives a T side red loadout a matching agent for $5.61, and Rezan the Redshirt has two sleeve colors for $8.02. From $10 to $25, Special Agent Ava | FBI and The Doctor Romanov are Master agents for less than many Distinguished ones.

Above $25, Wet Sox Baroud is the CT agent for expensive gloves and Miami Darryl the loudest T agent at $92.53 on November 5. Do not pay extra for a high rarity, because the two most expensive CT agents are both Distinguished.

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