The Most Expensive Glock-18 Skins in CS2 (2026)

This list orders the most expensive Glock-18 skins in CS2 by the highest price of each skin on SkinsMonkey at the time of writing (November 5, 2026). Out of the 55 finishes in all Glock-18 skins on SkinsMonkey, the Glock-18 | Fade costs the most, at $1,678.95 in Factory New, and 17 finishes cost more than $100 in their best wear. The Gamma Doppler has five phases with five different prices, so we list them one by one. We also cover StatTrak and Souvenir copies and the wears where the price jumps the most.

The Fade is far ahead of every other Glock. It costs more than twice the Ghost Protocol, the second most expensive Glock, and it is not even a Covert skin. Rarity decides little on this pistol: the Fade is Restricted, the third most expensive Glock is Classified, and an Industrial Grade Sand Dune costs more in Factory New than most Covert Glocks. Below we go through the list in price groups and explain what makes each skin expensive.

How We Ranked the Most Expensive Glock-18 Skins

The ranking uses the highest price of each Glock-18 skin on SkinsMonkey for a normal copy, which for every skin in the top ten is the Factory New price. Prices were checked on November 5, 2026 and change with the market. Each Gamma Doppler phase has its own page and its own price on the SkinsMonkey WIKI, so we count the Emerald as a separate skin. StatTrak and Souvenir copies are priced separately and have their own section below. Several skins near the top had no listings in their best wear that day, so for them the price on the item page is a reference price, and we say where that matters. Prices in the text are trade prices for the wear we name, checked on November 5, 2026. The live “From” price in the widgets can be lower, because it also counts Market offers on SkinsMonkey.

The Glock-18 is the T side starting pistol. It costs $200, holds 20 rounds and can switch to three-round burst fire. Every T side player holds one in the pistol round, so a Glock skin is seen more often than most rifle skins. Of its 55 finishes on SkinsMonkey, 29 drop from a weapon case or a terminal, 11 come from map collections in Souvenir or collection packages, and 15 belong to collections for which SkinsMonkey lists no case or package. Six of the ten most expensive Glocks, the Fade among them, are in that last group.

Glock-18 | Fade: A Restricted Pistol for $1,678

The Fade came out on August 14, 2013 with the Arms Deal update, in the Assault Collection. That collection has no weapon case, so the Fade never dropped from a case, and it has no StatTrak version. It is one of the oldest skins in the game.

The Fade costs more than twice the Ghost Protocol at $706.38 and more than nine times the Neo-Noir, the most expensive Glock from a weapon case. For a shiny Glock at a part of the price, the Gamma Doppler phases below start at about $120 in Factory New.

Gamma Doppler: Five Phases, Five Prices

The Gamma Doppler is one finish with five phases: Phase 1 to Phase 4 and the Emerald. Each phase has a different mix of colours, and the Emerald is almost fully green. The skin came out with the 2021 Train Collection, which Valve added with Operation Riptide on September 21, 2021, and SkinsMonkey lists no case or package for it. The SkinsMonkey WIKI prices each phase on its own page, and the Emerald costs more than three times any other phase in Factory New.

• Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2, $138.58 in Factory New and $110.18 in Minimal Wear. The most expensive of the four numbered phases, with six Factory New listings that day.
• Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 1, $124.69 in Factory New. Field-Tested costs $96.83, so the best wear costs less than $30 more than Field-Tested.
• Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 4, $120.20 in Factory New and $100.08 in Minimal Wear.
• Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 3, $120.09 in Factory New, 11 cents less than Phase 4. Field-Tested costs $97.14.

Our guide to Doppler phases in CS2 shows how to tell the phases apart before you trade, because the Steam item name does not show the phase.

$330 to $710: Ghost Protocol, Twilight Galaxy and Skins With No Case

The next four skins all come from collections, not from a weapon case. For all four SkinsMonkey lists no case or package. Few copies of them are listed for trade, and in Factory New some had no listings at all on November 5, 2026.

• Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy, $550.57 in Factory New, a Classified from the Chop Shop Collection. Minimal Wear costs $272.99 and Field-Tested $272.71, only 28 cents apart. The float range ends at 0.20, so there is no Well-Worn or Battle-Scarred copy.
• Glock-18 | Synth Leaf, $434.77 in Factory New, a Restricted skin from the St. Marc Collection. A teal and purple pattern of overlapping leaves. Minimal Wear costs $432.33 and Field-Tested $412.20, and Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred had no price on SkinsMonkey.
• Glock-18 | Sand Dune, $339.87 in Factory New, an Industrial Grade skin from the Alpha Collection, spray-painted in sand colours. Minimal Wear costs $46.70 and Field-Tested $14.79. The float range starts at 0.06, so very few Factory New copies exist, and SkinsMonkey had none listed that day.

$150 to $230: Fully Tuned, Neo-Noir and Wasteland Rebel

From here the list is mostly case skins. They cost less than the collection skins above because cases and terminals still drop them. Two skins in this group are exceptions: the Groundwater, an Industrial Grade skin from old Mirage Souvenir packages, and the Brass from the Dust Collection.

• Glock-18 | Neo-Noir, $184.32 in Factory New, a Covert from the Operation Broken Fang Case. A blue and magenta woman over a grey background. Minimal Wear costs $66.45, so Factory New costs almost three times as much, and SkinsMonkey had no Factory New listing that day.
• Glock-18 | Groundwater, $161.40 in Factory New, an olive drab Industrial Grade skin from the Mirage Collection. SkinsMonkey lists it in Mirage Souvenir packages from DreamHack 2013 to Berlin 2019. Field-Tested costs $20.50, and the float range starts at 0.06.
• Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel, $160.82 in Factory New, a Covert from the Gamma Case with block print and graffiti. Every wear costs between $144.85 and $160.82, so the cheapest wear gives you almost the same skin.
• Glock-18 | Brass, $154.90 in Factory New, a Restricted skin from the Dust Collection with parts replaced by brass. Field-Tested costs $36.23.

StatTrak and Souvenir Glock-18 Skins: Five Times the Price on Some Skins

A StatTrak counter or a Souvenir tag can change the price more than the wear does. On SkinsMonkey 29 Glock-18 skins have StatTrak versions, all of them from cases and terminals. The most expensive is the StatTrak Fully Tuned at $369.79 in Factory New. The Blue Fissure shows the biggest difference: $212.28 for StatTrak Factory New against $41.51 for a normal copy, more than five times. The Wasteland Rebel goes the other way, and its StatTrak copies in Minimal Wear to Battle-Scarred cost less than normal ones, $136.32 against $146.95 in Minimal Wear.

Souvenir Glock skins only come from Souvenir packages, and on the Glock that means map collections such as Cache, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass and Anubis. The Souvenir Reactor from the Cache packages costs $333.94 in Factory New, five times a normal copy at $66.52. SkinsMonkey had no Souvenir Glock listings on November 5, 2026, so treat these as reference prices from the item pages. The item pages also show Souvenir prices for skins with no Souvenir package, such as the Fade, the Brass and the AXIA, and we leave those prices out. Our guide to the best CS2 Souvenir skins explains how Souvenir packages work.

Which Expensive Glock-18 Skins Look Best in Game

The Glock is small on screen, so colour does more than detail. A bright slide shows in every pistol round, while a fine pattern only shows in the inspect. This is our order for the expensive Glock skins, from the one you notice most to the one you notice least. For Glocks in one colour, see our lists of blue Glock-18 skins and black Glock-18 skins.

Does Wear Matter on Expensive Glock-18 Skins

It matters most on skins with a float range that starts at 0.06, and on skins where Factory New is rare. On the Sand Dune, the Groundwater and the Night, Factory New only covers floats from 0.06 to 0.07, so very few Factory New copies exist. That is why a Factory New Sand Dune costs $339.87 and a Field-Tested one $14.79. On skins like the Synth Leaf, the Wasteland Rebel or the Gamma Doppler phases, the lower wears cost almost the same as the best one.

If you want one of these skins for how it looks, Minimal Wear or Field-Tested gives you almost the same pistol for a part of the Factory New price. Our list of the best Glock-18 skins names our picks at every budget, the cheapest Glock-18 skins start at ten cents, and our guide to CS2 wear levels has the float ranges.

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How to Get an Expensive Glock-18

Most expensive Glock skins do not drop from a case. The Fade, the Twilight Galaxy, the Synth Leaf, the Sand Dune and the Gamma Doppler belong to collections for which SkinsMonkey lists no case or package, and the Ghost Protocol comes from the Armory. Trade-up contracts can give you a skin from the collection of the skins you put in, but not a specific wear or a specific Gamma Doppler phase, and our CS2 trade-up guide explains how they work. The Fully Tuned, the Neo-Noir and the Wasteland Rebel come from a terminal and from cases that you can still open.

Trading is the practical way to get one specific Glock in one specific wear or phase. On SkinsMonkey you log in through Steam, add skins from your inventory, pick the Glock and the bot sends the trade offer, and you can check the float of each copy before you trade. If you want to know what your inventory is worth first, our CS2 Inventory Value Checker shows it in about a minute.

The top Glock-18 from each price group

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Bottom line

The Fade is the most expensive Glock by far, the Ghost Protocol is the most expensive Covert

The most expensive Glock-18 skin in CS2 is the Fade, at $1,678.95 in Factory New on SkinsMonkey on November 5, 2026, and no case drops it. Below it, the most expensive Glocks are collection skins with no case, such as the Ghost Protocol at $706.38 and the Twilight Galaxy at $550.57.

If you want a Gamma Doppler, check the phase before the price, because the Emerald costs more than three times any other phase. If you buy for how the skin looks, Minimal Wear or Field-Tested saves most of the money, above all on skins with a float range that starts at 0.06.

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