How to Trade Up to Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol
Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol drops from Operation Riptide Case, so any contract that can produce it needs 10 Mil-Spec skins from that same case. Here is what the contract costs, what else it can land on, and the input float you need for each exterior.
- Odds per contract
- 20% 1 in 5
- Contract cost from
- $4.80 10 × cheapest input
- Expected value
- $3.40 mean of the outcome pool
- Margin
- -29.2% $-1.40 per contract
Buying is cheaper than rolling. A Field-Tested Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol costs $2.86 outright, against $4.80 for a contract with a 20% chance of producing one. Trade up for the process, not the value.
The contract
10 inputs, all Mil-Spec, all from Operation Riptide Case. Concentrating every input in one case is what keeps your odds at 20% — mixing cases splits the probability across both pools and lowers your chance at Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol specifically.
Dual Berettas | Tread
PP-Bizon | Lumen
Dual Berettas | Tread
AUG | Plague
MP7 | Guerrilla
AUG | Plague
USP-S | Black Lotus
G3SG1 | Keeping Tabs
MP7 | Guerrilla
G3SG1 | Keeping Tabs
AUG | Plague
PP-Bizon | Lumen12 further eligible inputs are available — open the reverse trade-up finder to price a full contract against your own inventory.
What else this contract can land on
A contract from Operation Riptide Case draws uniformly from every Restricted Pistol skin in the pool, so Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol is one of 5 equally likely results. These are the other 4.
| Outcome | Odds | Cheapest price |
|---|---|---|
| M4A4 | Spider Lily | 20% | $5.39 |
| MP9 | Mount Fuji | 20% | $4.53 |
| Five-SeveN | Boost Protocolyour target | 20% | $2.86 |
| FAMAS | ZX Spectron | 20% | $2.40 |
| MAG-7 | BI83 Spectrum | 20% | $1.83 |
Input float for each exterior
CS2 normalises float across a trade-up: each input’s float becomes a 0–1 position inside its own range, those are averaged, and the average is applied to Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol’s range of 0.00–0.41. To land a given exterior, your ten inputs must average the normalised float below.
| Target exterior | Output float | Required avg. input float |
|---|---|---|
| Factory New | 0.0350 | 0.0854 |
| Minimal Wear | 0.1100 | 0.2683 |
| Field-Tested | 0.2650 | 0.6463 |
| Well-Worn | 0.3950 | 0.9634 |
| Battle-Scarred | — | not reachable |
“Not reachable” means Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol’s own float range never enters that exterior band — no combination of inputs can produce it.
What Five-SeveN | Boost Protocol is worth right now
Worth comparing against the contract cost above before you commit: buying the skin outright is frequently cheaper than rolling for it.
| Exterior | Price | vs. contract cost |
|---|---|---|
| Field-Tested | $2.86 | −$1.94 |
| Well-Worn | $3.56 | −$1.24 |
| Minimal Wear | $4.37 | −$0.43 |
| Factory New | $8.67 | +$3.87 |
Build this contract
Price a full ten-slot contract against live inputs, set your own float values, and see the outcome odds update as you go.