Seven trading sites, sorted by the only question that changes the answer: do you want to swap against a bot's inventory and be done in a minute, or trade with another player and keep the spread?
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Route 1
You trade against inventory the site already holds, so nothing waits on another player. Fast, and you pay for it in the spread between the bot's buy price and its sell price.
4 sites
CS.MONEY is the most-recognised skin trading brand in CS2: a huge bot inventory, a 3D inspector with float lookup, and both bot and P2P trade flows. Trade Balance stays on the site, while Market sales can be cashed out after KYC, so check which balance you are funding before you deposit.
Tradeit specialises in bot-to-bot instant trading (you give 5 cheap skins, get 1 expensive one, no money changes hands). Useful when you want to consolidate inventory without selling for cash and re-buying.
Swap.gg straddles trading bot and marketplace, you can do instant skin-for-skin swaps OR list for cash buyout. Cash-out support is competitive with DMarket. Strong brand recognition in the trading community.
SkinsMonkey's whole product is fast bot trading, you can deposit cash or crypto to fund trades, but withdrawals come back as skins (no cash payouts). Best when you want to top up trading liquidity without moving money out.
None of these four charge a visible percentage. The cost is the gap between the rate the bot buys at and the rate it sells at, so read both numbers before you accept a swap.
Route 2
You trade or sell to another player and the site brokers it. Better prices, because there is no bot spread, but a listing only clears when someone on the other side takes it.
3 sites
Empire's marketplace charges 0% on direct P2P trades, and the same balance funds its casino games, which no pure trading site supports. Best for active CS2 players who trade and play.
ShadowPay runs a P2P marketplace plus instant-swap engine. Sell fees sit at 5% (better than DMarket's 5-7%), skin-for-skin swaps are free, and the 3D inspector is solid. Smaller than CS.MONEY but cleaner UI and stronger security tooling.
CS.Deals' marketplace fees are among the lowest of any hybrid (often 1-3%) and the trade engine handles cross-game swaps. Finnish base means EU regulatory clarity. Underrated relative to its actual feature set.
Status check
Status when we last checked, 6 August 2026: cs.deals served a maintenance page for a CS Deals 2.0 rebuild, and its own help centre had listed skin-for-skin trades as unavailable since March 2026. Read our review before you plan around it.
Steam's trade-protection window applies to every item that moves through these three, so proceeds are not always spendable the moment a trade completes. That is Valve's rule, not the site's.
Sites that do both sit on the side their own product leads with, and the row says so.
What the split costs you
On the instant side the platform is the counterparty. It buys your skins below market and sells you its own above market, and the gap between those two numbers is the real cost of the trade, typically 5-8% in the bot's favour on the sites in this guide. No listing sits waiting, nothing depends on another player showing up, and the whole swap finishes in the time it takes to accept a Steam trade offer.
On the peer-to-peer side you set the price and the platform takes a cut of the sale instead of a spread, which on CSGOEmpire's direct P2P trades is 0%. The cost moves from money to time: a listing only clears when a real buyer takes it, and Steam's trade-protection window means the proceeds are not always spendable the moment the trade completes. Both sides of this page are subject to that Valve rule, not to any site's policy.
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