CS2 Stickers

Stickers are cosmetic decals you apply to the body of any weapon in CS2. Team crests and autographs come from Major capsules in editions from Paper to Gold: the edition and the event, not the art, set the price.

Stickers are cosmetic decals you apply to the body of any weapon in CS2. You can apply up to five stickers to a weapon and adjust their position and rotation before confirming. Stickers don't affect a skin's float, but they layer on top of the paint, so a carefully arranged "craft" can be worth far more than the skin underneath it.

Across 1 market this board tracks 10428 base stickers from $0.00 to $75,064.

Editions set the tier. Team capsules pull Paper most often, then Glitter or Holo, then Foil, then Gold. The rarity band follows the edition, and the mapping has shifted between eras: a Katowice 2014 Holo is Remarkable, while a Paris 2023 Holo is Exotic. Same team, same art, different edition: prices diverge by orders of magnitude.

Supply only shrinks. Tournament capsules are sold in-game during their event and never again. After that the pool is fixed, and every sticker applied to a gun and scraped is burned forever. That attrition is why 2014-2015 crests keep climbing while last year’s Majors trade for cents.

Finish tiers: paper, holo, foil, gold, glitter

The finish determines both look and price ceiling. Paper (the base tier) is matte and the cheapest. Holo (holographic) shifts through a rainbow shimmer as the weapon moves and is the most sought-after mainstream finish. Foil is a metallic mirror-like sheet, used heavily on community and team stickers. Glitter and Gold are higher-end finishes seen on select capsules and crafts, with Gold being the rarest tier in capsules that offer it. Within a single capsule the finishes are not equally common: paper variants drop far more often than holo or foil, which is why two stickers with identical art can sit at wildly different prices. Tournament team stickers are usually issued in paper, holo, foil and gold versions of the same logo.

Where stickers come from

Two sources. Sticker Capsules are store items you buy and open (each opens to one sticker from its set) and stay in production, so their prices are driven by ongoing supply and the art inside. Tournament capsules are sold around each Major and contain either team logos or player autographs (paper/holo/foil/gold autos of pros). Once a Major is over, those capsules stop being sold and existing stock slowly drains, which is what turns old autographs and event stickers into appreciating collectibles. Legacy stickers from CS:GO Majors (Katowice 2014 being the most famous example) are the extreme end of this, since their original supply was tiny.

Applying, scraping and crafts

You can apply up to five stickers to a weapon and adjust their position and rotation before confirming. Application is permanent for that copy of the sticker, you cannot peel it off and reuse it. Scraping wears the sticker through fixed stages toward a worn, faded appearance, used deliberately on "scratch" crafts. A weapon carrying applied stickers is a single tradeable item whose value reflects the stickers plus the skin. "Crafts" (carefully arranged sticker combinations, often matched themes, rare holos, or specific player autos) are a whole market segment, and a well-placed set of expensive holos can dominate the price of the gun it sits on.

Demand pockets and what's cheap

The cheapest stickers are common paper variants from current, in-production capsules, which trade for cents. The most consistently demanded mainstream stickers are holos and foils with strong, clean artwork and team stickers from popular orgs. Player autographs from active, well-known pros hold attention while the player is relevant. The blue-chip end is dominated by discontinued Major stickers, where rarity rather than art drives price. Because supply for in-production capsules keeps flowing, paper drops there rarely appreciate, while discontinued holos and team stickers are where long-term value tends to concentrate.

Crafts

Up to 5 stickers per weapon in CS2 (4 in CS:GO), placed anywhere on the body since the CS2 update.

Applying is one-way: a placed sticker can only be scraped off, stage by stage, and the last scrape destroys it.

On resale the skin sells first: applied stickers usually return only part of their cost, except sought-after combos. Katowice 2014 holo crafts trade as collector pieces: the stickers can be worth more than the gun under them.