Swap.gg
- 8% Seller Fee
- 5–15% Buyer Fee
- 0% Deposit Fee
- 0% Withdrawal Fee
Introduction
Swap.gg is run by Swap.gg B.V., a Dutch company registered in Amsterdam and trading since 2017. It is one of the more corporately transparent operators in this comparison, publishing a founding date, a registered address and a company number, and it has since expanded beyond CS2 into a separate trading-card marketplace.
How the market works
Swap.gg positions itself explicitly against bot-inventory sites, marketing market-based pricing as the alternative to what it calls the high commissions of trading bots. In practice you trade items from your Steam inventory for items on the platform, with pricing driven by demand rather than a fixed bot valuation.
Fees explained
Swap.gg charges one combined commission rather than splitting it cleanly between buyer and seller: a base 8% plus a variable surcharge of up to 20% depending on how sought-after the item is, per its own help centre. Third-party measurements put the buyer’s share of that combined cost at roughly 5–15%, which makes the real cost hard to predict from the headline rate alone — a popular skin can cost meaningfully more to trade than an unpopular one. Funding the account and trading against balance both carry no separate Swap.gg charge of their own.
How to buy
Fund the account by card, PayPal or Skrill — Swap.gg advertises more than 200 payment methods in total — then trade for the items you want. Deposits are the flexible part of the platform; payouts are not.
How to sell
Selling into Swap.gg means trading an item from your Steam inventory against the platform’s own stock, at a combined cost of the base 8% commission plus a demand-based surcharge of up to 20% — third-party measurements put the buyer’s share of that combined cost at roughly 5–15%. That nets you trade balance rather than money, and trade balance can only be spent on other items. Anyone who wants cash instead needs the separate Instant Sell feature, which pays out by PayPal, SEPA transfer or crypto.
Cashing out
This is the part worth understanding before you start. Swap.gg runs two balances that do not mix: trade balance, earned from trading items, can only be spent on other items and cannot be turned into money — help.swap.gg is explicit on this point. Getting real money out requires the separate Instant Sell feature, which pays out by PayPal, SEPA transfer or crypto; those rails belong to Instant Sell, not to trade balance.
Who it's for
Suited to traders who want to rotate inventory and are happy routing any real-money exit through the separate Instant Sell feature — by PayPal, SEPA transfer or crypto — rather than expecting trade balance itself to pay out. Anyone who wants to sell skins directly for money should look elsewhere, because trade balance never converts to cash.
Advantages & Disadvantages
Advantages
- Established Dutch company trading since 2017, with a published registered address
- Very broad deposit coverage — over 200 advertised payment methods
- Supports Rust and TF2 alongside CS2
- Large Trustpilot base of nearly 2,500 reviews at 4.4
Disadvantages
- Trade balance cannot be converted to money — only Instant Sell pays out
- Instant Sell, the only real-money route, has no published rate and pays out in up to 7 days
- An 8% base commission plus a variable surcharge of up to 20% makes the true trading cost unpredictable
- No single published flat fee that covers both the base commission and the surcharge
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Last reviewed 17 August 2026.