How Mercato works

Market Hub

The front page, at mercato.gg. It lists the whole CS2 catalogue as item families — one card per skin, covering all of its exteriors and its StatTrak™ and Souvenir variants. Sort by popularity, price, name or how recently an item was added, and switch between the card grid and a table.

Filters live in the Advanced Search dialog: category, exterior, quality, price range and collection. Every filter and sort is part of the page address, so any view you reach can be bookmarked or shared and will come back the same.

Catalog

The Catalog walks the market by relationship rather than by list: fourteen entity types — collections, cases, paint kits, weapons, rarities, tournaments, teams, sticker capsules and more. Each entity page shows what it holds, its price statistics, how its items divide by rarity and weapon, and the entities next to it in the graph. The category menus in the header open the same data.

Item page

Everything Mercato knows about one item: its price across the marketplaces we track, its completed-sale history charted over 30 days, 90 days and its full record, its market activity and liquidity, the collection and cases it comes from, its other exteriors and qualities, and related items.

Most items have no recorded sales history — fewer than one in fourteen do. Where that is the case the page says so rather than showing an empty chart or an invented number.

Item ratings

You can rate any item from one to five stars, without an account. One browser may rate a given item once; see the Privacy Policy for the cookie that makes that work. A rating is an opinion, not a valuation.

Marketplace links

Where a marketplace is offering an item, the item page shows its price, the original currency if it was converted, and how many are available. The buy link takes you to that marketplace. Some links are affiliate links; they never affect which price is shown as the best one.

No account needed

Everything on Mercato is public and free. There is nothing to register for and nothing to sign in to. Requests are rate limited to protect the service, which ordinary browsing will not reach.

Where the data comes from

Prices come from the marketplaces Mercato tracks. Completed-sale history comes from the Steam market. Item names, rarities, collections and relationships come from the game’s own metadata. Collection runs continuously and is constrained by each source’s rate limits, so freshness varies — each item page shows when its data was last collected.

Questions not covered here? See Support.