CS2 Float Guide: How Wear Values Affect Skin Prices in 2026
- ▸Float is a hidden 0.00–1.00 wear number that controls a skin's visual condition — lower is cleaner
- ▸Factory New (0.00–0.07) commands up to 10x the price of Battle-Scarred (0.45–1.00) for the same skin
- ▸CSBoard lets you filter 36,000+ skins by exact float range at /en/items?float_min=0&float_max=0.07
- ▸A 0.000x float AWP Dragon Lore sold for $61,000 — float can be the single biggest price multiplier
Float value — often called wear rating — is a decimal number between 0.00 and 1.00 that Valve assigns to every CS2 skin the moment it's unboxed or dropped. It dictates which of the five wear categories the skin falls into: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn, or Battle-Scarred. But float is more than just a label. Two Field-Tested skins can look completely different because one sits at 0.15 and the other at 0.37. Serious traders price skins down to the fourth decimal place.
On CSBoard, you can search by precise float ranges — not just the broad wear category. That matters when a 0.07001 Minimal Wear M4A4 Howl trades for $1,200 more than a 0.06999 Factory New copy. The marketplace indexes ~36,000 skins with live Buff163-anchored prices, so you always see what a specific float is actually worth.