We benchmarked 6 CS2 price APIs on this page for 24 hours: real marketplace coverage, price freshness read from each provider's own timestamps, and request reliability, not advertised specifications. Same factors for everyone, sources cited. Pick a provider to see the full breakdown.
Pricempire advertises 40+ marketplaces. On its free tier (the only tier with API access under $119.90/mo), our 24-hour benchmark measured 2 marketplaces, refreshed at a 7.2-minute median.
Read the comparisonCSMarketCap offers GraphQL/REST analytics across an advertised 36 marketplaces. Its responses embed no timestamps, so price age cannot be verified; analytics refresh every 1–3 hours depending on tier.
Read the comparisonCS2.sh covers six marketplaces in depth (bids, OHLC candles, multi-year archives) and measured fresh at 2.9 minutes median. CS2Cap covers 40 marketplaces at a comparable 3.5-minute median.
Read the comparisonSkinbase advertises 30+ marketplaces refreshed 'every few minutes'. Our 24-hour benchmark measured a 6.6-hour median price age on its prices endpoint.
Read the comparisonCSPriceAPI advertises 13 marketplaces through per-market endpoints; our 24-hour benchmark measured 10. During the benchmark its responses carried future-dated timestamps, so price age cannot be established from the data it returns.
Read the comparisonCSGOSkins.gg is compared here on its published specifications only: it was not part of our measured benchmark. It tracks listing prices (not sales) across 31 marketplaces (it advertises 37), starting at €179/mo with no free tier.
Read the comparisonEvery count on these pages includes only marketplaces returning a real, non-zero price: measured, not claimed.
Freshness is the median age of the price timestamps our API itself returns. Wide coverage providers measured hours behind; fresh ones covered a handful of markets.
Dedicated buy-order data, per-item tick history from Pro, OHLCV candles, and an SSE price feed: the depth axis, alongside the breadth.
The free tier serves live prices, so every claim on these pages can be checked with a key that costs nothing.
Methodology. Measured figures come from a continuous 24-hour benchmark (2026-07-30 21:00 UTC → 2026-07-31 21:00 UTC) polling each provider's API on 5-minute cycles. Freshness is the median age of the provider's own embedded price timestamps. Marketplace counts include only marketplaces returning a non-zero price: a price: 0 placeholder is not a price. Pricempire was measured on its free tier, the only tier we held a key for. CSGOSkins.gg was not benchmarked; its column shows published specifications only. Advertised figures cite each provider's public pages as of the date shown. Read the full methodology.
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