The Steam Community Market is Valve’s own marketplace for CS2 items and the reference price for everything else on SteamAnalyst. It has run since 2003, it is operated by Valve Corporation out of Bellevue, and trades take place entirely inside Steam — no third-party site ever needs access to your account. On safety and liquidity, nothing else here competes.

The cost is the 15% combined fee, the joint-highest in this directory, and the fact that you cannot take the money out. Sale proceeds become Steam Wallet credit, spendable only on Valve’s store. That restriction is also why Steam prices run above third-party listings: a buyer spending trapped wallet credit values it below cash, so sellers price accordingly.

The practical split is simple. If you are buying and want zero counterparty risk, Steam is the safe default and you pay for it. If you are selling and want actual money, nearly every marketplace in this directory nets you more, even after its own fee is taken.

Declared by Steam Market. The operator, its registered company and how long it has been running are in the At a Glance panel above.

Countries over-represented among SteamAnalyst readers who chose Steam Market over the last 90 days, measured against our own traffic mix — Philippines at 13× means 13 times its share of the site overall. This is where our readers were, not where Steam Market's own visitors are.

VPN use is common in skin trading — reaching a market that blocks your region, or working around a payment restriction. A reader is counted where they browsed from, not where they live, so these figures may under-count exactly the countries they are most likely to be interesting for.