# cs2.sh - CS2 price API

> Last updated: 2026-08-07. Data coverage current as of this date; see https://cs2.sh/docs/data-coverage for live coverage.

cs2.sh is a price API for the Counter-Strike 2 skin market. Real-time bid/ask prices from BUFF, Youpin, CSFloat, Skinport, Steam, and C5Game, refreshed every ~5 minutes (source-dependent), plus OHLC candles at 5m/30m/1h/1d and price history from 2023 - and to 2013 (13 years) for Steam sale history.

> Every docs page is available as clean markdown: append `.md` to any https://cs2.sh/docs/... URL (e.g. https://cs2.sh/docs/api-reference/prices-latest.md). Full corpus: https://cs2.sh/llms-full.txt.

It includes high-frequency price history, variant item tracking, multi-year archive data, CSFloat daily sale history, liquidity rankings, and REST JSON responses.

Base URL: `https://api.cs2.sh`

## Key facts

- Sources: BUFF (buff163), Youpin, C5Game, CSFloat, Skinport, Steam – 6 marketplaces.
- History depth is per endpoint: third-party marketplaces (BUFF, Youpin, C5Game, CSFloat, Skinport) have 3+ years; Steam Community Market median sale history goes back to April 26, 2013 (13 years). OHLC candles (5m/30m/1h/1d) recorded continuously since December 24, 2025; archive price/supply/volume from 2023.
- Refresh cadence: prices update every ~5 minutes (source-dependent).
- Variants: Doppler, Gamma Doppler, and Case Hardened priced individually per source.
- Access: free 2-day developer key (sign up at https://cs2.sh, ask in Discord). REST JSON, base URL https://api.cs2.sh.
- Liquidity: per-item daily liquidity buckets and estimated sale times for every item and variant.

## Endpoints

- `GET /v1/prices/latest` - Current prices for all items across every supported marketplace.
- `POST /v1/prices/latest` - Current prices for up to 100 specific items in one request.
- `POST /v1/prices/history` - Continuously updated OHLC price history for CS2 items since December 24, 2025.
- `GET /v1/liquidity/items` - Daily liquidity buckets and estimated sale times for every item.
- `POST /v1/archive/history` - Long-term archive prices, total supply, and sale volume from 2023 onward.
- `POST /v1/archive/csfloat` - Daily sale price and volume from CSFloat from 2022 onward.
- `POST /v1/archive/steam` - Native Steam Community Market median sale price and volume history - 13 years of data, daily since April 26, 2013.
- `POST /v1/archive/youpin` - Youpin sale history API for CS2 - sale prices at 1h/4h/12h intervals in USD, 12h data since November 12, 2025, updated 1-2 times per day.
- `GET /v1/market/buff/latest` - BUFF float ranges and fade ranges for every item.
- `POST /v1/market/buff/history` - OHLC history for BUFF float ranges and fade ranges since May 19, 2026.
- `GET /v1/market/steam/latest` - Full-depth Steam bid/ask orderbooks for every item.
- `POST /v1/market/steam/history` - Full-depth Steam orderbook snapshots over time.
- `GET /v1/schema` - Full CS2 item catalog keyed by market_hash_name – metadata, wears, variants, marketplace ids, and images.
- `GET /health` - Service health status.

## Core Docs

- Quickstart: https://cs2.sh/docs/quickstart
- Data coverage: https://cs2.sh/docs/data-coverage
- Response format: https://cs2.sh/docs/response-format
- AI & coding agents: https://cs2.sh/docs/ai-coding-agents
- API objects: https://cs2.sh/docs/api-reference/objects

## Site pages

- https://cs2.sh/index.md
- https://cs2.sh/pricing.md
- https://cs2.sh/demo.md
- https://cs2.sh/buff-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/youpin-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/c5game-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/csfloat-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/skinport-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/steam-api.md
- https://cs2.sh/terms.md
- https://cs2.sh/resources.md

## More Information

- Full markdown documentation: https://cs2.sh/llms-full.txt
- Web documentation: https://cs2.sh/docs
- Practical resource guides: https://cs2.sh/resources/llms.txt
- Per-page markdown: append `.md` to any docs URL, for example https://cs2.sh/docs/api-reference/prices-latest.md
- Support: read the documentation first, then join Discord for follow-up questions: https://discord.gg/5AJemzwBtq