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Best P2P CS2 Marketplaces 2026: 8 Sites Compared On Fees And Payout Holds

Exeskins Has The Tightest Fee Cap And CS.Deals The Longest Track Record

Pick by what matters most to you. Every number below comes from our full review of that platform.

  • Exeskins has the lowest fee ceiling written into a contract: 1.9% advertised, 5% at most
  • For a low posted fee from a company with a long record, CS.Deals charges 2% and has run from Finland since 2016
  • Zero fee exists on CSBoard for skin for skin swaps and on Skins.com for marketplace sales, with conditions covered below the list
  • CSBoard asks for no identity check at any withdrawal tier
  • Waxpeer and CSBoard pay out to PayPal
  • WhiteMarket is backed by the WhiteBIT crypto exchange

Every Site On This List Leaves The Skin In The Seller's Own Steam Inventory

A peer to peer marketplace does not buy your skin and does not store it. You list an item from your own Steam inventory, a buyer pays the platform, and you send the trade offer to that buyer yourself. The platform holds the money in the middle and releases it once the trade can no longer be undone. That is the difference from bot trading sites like Tradeit.gg or SkinSwap, where you trade against the site's own inventory, and from instant sell sites like SellYourSkins, which buy the skin from you at a quoted price. Seller fees on this list run from 0 to 6 percent. Instant sell costs more: CSBoard's own instant sell bot pays 7 to 10 percent below market. The price of P2P is time, because a real person has to be online on the other side.

  • List a skin at your own price. It stays in your inventory until someone buys it
  • Once a buyer pays, the site prompts you to send a Steam trade offer
  • Delivery starts the payout hold
  • When the hold ends, the sale money can be withdrawn

Steam Trade Protection Is Why Sellers Wait 7 To 8 Days For Their Money

Since July 2025, every CS2 item received in a trade is trade protected for seven days. During that window the account that gave the item away can reverse the trade, and the items go back to their previous owners. For a marketplace that is a real risk: the buyer has paid, and the seller could pull the skin back. So P2P sites hold the seller's money until the window closes. Reversing is not free for the seller either. Steam blocks an account that reverses trades from trading and from the Community Market for 30 days, and WhiteMarket's terms let it seize the funds permanently.

  • Exeskins keeps sale money in escrow for at least eight days
  • WhiteMarket holds for eight days, the Steam window plus a day of buffer
  • Skins.com pays sellers seven days after confirmed delivery and can extend that for new accounts
  • CSBoard puts a seven day hold on withdrawals

Featured platforms

  1. Exeskins — 1.9% seller fee, capped at 5% in the contract, and buyers pay nothing. Registered Polish company. Identity check before any payout, and sale money sits in escrow for at least eight days.
  2. WhiteMarket — Flat 5% seller fee and 0% for buyers, backed by the WhiteBIT exchange. Payouts go to crypto or WhiteBIT only, no PayPal or bank, after an eight day hold.
  3. CS.Deals — 2% standard seller fee and no buyer fee, run by a Finnish company since 2016. P2P and bot trading share one account. Payouts in crypto, fiat only by contacting support.
  4. Buff Market — 2.5% seller fee from NetEase, the company behind BUFF163, and 0% for buyers. Deposits cost 3.5% plus $0.15 and withdrawals 1% through Payoneer or Airwallex.
  5. Waxpeer — 6% seller fee, PayPal payouts in many countries, and withdrawals to Steam balance at 0%. Identity checks can be required before withdrawing, and refunds can take up to 45 days.
  6. CSBoard — 0% on skin for skin swaps and no identity check at any tier. Cash comes only through the instant sell bot at 7 to 10%, then PayPal at 5% plus $4, after a seven day hold.
  7. Skins.com — 0% commission on marketplace sales, run by a Hong Kong company. Deposits cannot be withdrawn, and you must spend what you deposited before any payout. Sellers are paid 7 days after delivery.
  8. 49Skins — Young marketplace from Hannover, Germany, with a flat 4% seller fee. Buyers pay 4% plus a fixed fee, and crypto payouts for sellers had not launched when we reviewed it.

What to know

Zero percent always comes with a condition. CSBoard charges nothing on skin for skin swaps, but turning skins into cash runs through its instant sell bot at 7 to 10 percent, and PayPal cashout adds 5 percent plus a flat $4. Skins.com charges no commission on sales, but section 8 of its terms says deposited money cannot be withdrawn, and that you must spend an amount equal to everything you deposited before any payout. Exeskins advertises 1.9 percent while its contract allows up to 5, and no schedule explains when the higher rate applies. Deposited money usually stays on the platform. On Exeskins, deposited funds can only be refunded to the card they came from, and only sale proceeds can be paid out. On CSBoard, deposited balance can only be spent on the site. On Skins.com, the spend rule above applies. If you are here to sell, sell first and withdraw what you earned. If you are here to buy, deposit only what you plan to spend. Buyers pay nothing on most of these sites. Exeskins, WhiteMarket, CS.Deals, Buff Market and SkinThunder charge 0 percent on purchases. 49Skins is the exception at 4 percent plus a fixed fee. On Buff Market the cost sits in the deposit instead, at 3.5 percent plus $0.15. Before your first P2P sale, stay online after listing, send the trade only from the platform's own trade prompt, and check that the buyer and the item in the Steam offer match what the site shows. Never reverse a trade to get a skin back. It costs you the sale, it can cost you the money, and it locks your account out of trading for 30 days. How we ordered this list. Every platform here has a full Dust3 review with the details behind each summary. The order is our judgment of three things: what a seller keeps once the fee and the cost of cashing out are counted, how the payout hold and the deposit rules work in practice, and who stands behind the site. Codes shown next to a platform are Dust3 codes. We may earn a commission when you sign up with one, and that does not change what the reviews say.