CS2 Stickers by Colour: Cheap Green, Purple, Blue, Red and Gold Picks (2026)
The cheapest good-looking CS2 stickers by colour cost cents, not dollars. On 10 October 2026, Green Gnar was under $0.50 for green, Terrorist-Tech under $0.25 for purple, Counter-Tech under $0.50 for blue, Not A Bot under $0.25 for red, and Fools Gold Wave Rider under $0.50 for gold. Four of any of them, the usual craft, costs less than a single cheap skin. Holo, Foil and Gold finishes cost more, and the gap is bigger than most people expect.
Catalog sites sort stickers by colour but don't say what anything costs. This page does both, on one page rather than five thin ones. Each pick shows its band from the lowest tradable Skinport listing and from the Steam Community Market, both read on 10 October 2026, counting stickers with at least ten Skinport listings. Prices drift daily, so treat the bands as a guide.
How to pick stickers by colour
We sorted around 500 cheap art stickers by the dominant colour of their artwork, measured from the official images, then looked at every candidate and threw out the ones that only read as that colour in a spreadsheet. Team and autograph stickers are left out of the colour lists, apart from the Gold section, because most are logos or signatures rather than artwork.
For matching, take the colour from the skin's accent, not its base. A black rifle with cyan lines wants a cyan or blue sticker; a busy multicolour finish usually looks best with a sticker that picks out one of its colours rather than adding a new one. And because four of the same sticker is the common craft, a cheap paper sticker often looks better in a set than one expensive Holo on its own.
Green
Green Gnar, from the Riptide Surf Shop collection, is a cartoon creature on a green badge and was the cheapest green pick that still reads as green from a distance. Mister Chief (Halo Capsule) is a lime-green face, and From The Deep is a green tentacle; From The Deep was under $0.50 on Steam that day, cheaper than its under-$1 band on Skinport. The Awper from the Team Roles Capsule is a clean green badge.
For a little shine, Chief (Foil) was under $1 on Skinport and Phoenix Balaclava Co. (Holo) under $2. Green stickers suit green-accented skins like the AWP | Atheris, the AK-47 | Ice Coaled and the neon M4A4 | Full Throttle.
| # | Sticker | Finish | Skinport | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Green Gnar | Paper | <$0.50 | <$1 |
| #2 | Mister Chief | Paper | <$1 | <$1 |
| #3 | From The Deep | Paper | <$1 | <$0.50 |
| #4 | The Awper | Paper | <$1 | <$1 |
| #5 | Chief (Foil) | Foil | <$1 | <$2 |
| #6 | Phoenix Balaclava Co. (Holo) | Holo | <$2 | <$2 |
Purple
Terrorist-Tech from the Shattered Web Sticker Collection is the cheapest purple we'd use: a violet star emblem, under $0.25 on both markets. Hello MAC-10 (Recoil Sticker Collection) and The Lurker (Team Roles Capsule) were under $0.50, and Shattered Web, the collection's own logo sticker, was under $0.50 too.
Gold Web, a purple spider emblem, was under $1 with plenty of listings. For finishes, One Sting (Holo) was under $1 and Bolt Charge (Foil) under $2. Purple goes with violet skins like the M4A1-S | Black Lotus and the M4A4 | Desolate Space.
| # | Sticker | Finish | Skinport | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Terrorist-Tech | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #2 | Hello MAC-10 | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #3 | The Lurker | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #4 | Shattered Web | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #5 | Gold Web | Paper | <$1 | <$1 |
| #6 | One Sting (Holo) | Holo | <$1 | <$1 |
| #7 | Bolt Charge (Foil) | Foil | <$2 | <$2 |
Blue
Blue has the deepest cheap pool. Counter-Tech, the CT-side twin of Terrorist-Tech, was under $0.50 on Skinport and under $0.25 on Steam. Blue Gnar matches Green Gnar in blue. The Leader is a pale-blue Team Roles badge, and Web Stuck a blue web with a CS:GO-style logo, all under $0.50.
Windy Walking Club and Flick Shotter were under $1 on Skinport, and Web Stuck (Holo) under $2. Blue stickers carry a blue build; our blue CS2 loadout has the guns to put them on.
| # | Sticker | Finish | Skinport | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Counter-Tech | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.25 |
| #2 | Blue Gnar | Paper | <$0.50 | <$1 |
| #3 | The Leader | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #4 | Web Stuck | Paper | <$0.50 | <$1 |
| #5 | Flick Shotter | Paper | <$1 | <$1 |
| #6 | Windy Walking Club | Paper | <$1 | <$2 |
| #7 | Web Stuck (Holo) | Holo | <$2 | <$2 |
Red
Red is the one colour on this page where every pick was under $0.50 on Skinport. Not A Bot (Espionage Sticker Capsule), a red-and-pink robot head, was under $0.25 on both markets. Winding Scorch is a red-orange fireball, under $0.25. Manticore (Bestiary Capsule) was under $0.25, and Longevity (Perfect World Sticker Capsule 2), a clean red emblem, was under $0.50 on Skinport.
Fowl Play from the Chicken Capsule and Hello M4A1-S round out the list, both under $0.50. Red stickers suit skins like the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo or the USP-S | Check Engine, and they're how we'd finish a red kit for pennies.
| # | Sticker | Finish | Skinport | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Not A Bot | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #2 | Winding Scorch | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #3 | Manticore | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #4 | Longevity | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #5 | Fowl Play | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #6 | Hello M4A1-S | Paper | <$0.50 | <$1 |
Gold and white
"Gold" means two things. A gold-coloured paper sticker like Fools Gold Wave Rider (Riptide Surf Shop) was under $0.50. A Gold-finish sticker is a metallic version, mostly tournament team and event stickers: BLAST.tv (Gold) | Austin 2025 was under $1, as were MOUZ (Gold) | Austin 2025 and PGL (Gold) | Copenhagen 2024, among the cheapest Gold-finish stickers with steady supply. Ancient Beast (Foil) and Last Vance (Gold) were under $2.
White and grey stickers are mostly character art on a white backing. Angry T and Aim And Fire were under $0.25 on both markets, and The 'Nader, a grey-and-white Team Roles badge, under $1 on Skinport. They work on black finishes like the AK-47 | Slate, where any colour would fight the look.
| # | Sticker | Finish | Skinport | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Fools Gold Wave Rider | Paper | <$0.50 | <$0.50 |
| #2 | BLAST.tv (Gold) | Gold | <$1 | <$1 |
| #3 | MOUZ (Gold) | Gold | <$1 | <$2 |
| #4 | PGL (Gold) | Gold | <$1 | <$2 |
| #5 | Ancient Beast (Foil) | Foil | <$2 | <$2 |
| #6 | Last Vance (Gold) | Gold | <$2 | <$2 |
| #7 | Angry T | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #8 | Aim And Fire | Paper | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #9 | The 'Nader | Paper | <$1 | <$0.50 |
Finish types: paper, glitter, holo, foil, gold
Paper is the flat, printed default and the cheapest: the median paper sticker with steady supply was $0.11. Glitter adds sparkle and, surprisingly, cost about the same, a median of $0.10, and many of the cheap ones are tournament team and autograph stickers. Holo shifts colour as the gun moves (median $1.44), Foil is a reflective metallic finish ($2.04) and Gold is a full metallic gold version ($2.24).
Lenticular stickers change image with the viewing angle; only 17 had steady supply, at a median of $3.84. Newer still is Embroidered, a stitched look from the Budapest 2025 capsules, which had too few steady listings to rank. For a colour build on a budget, paper and glitter give the most colour per dollar; a Holo or Foil earns its premium when one sticker is the centrepiece.
What a 4-sticker craft costs (dated)
| # | Colour | Sticker | One | Four |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Green | Green Gnar | <$0.50 | <$2 |
| #2 | Purple | Terrorist-Tech | <$0.25 | <$1 |
| #3 | Purple | Gold Web | <$1 | <$5 |
| #4 | Blue | Counter-Tech | <$0.50 | <$2 |
| #5 | Blue | Web Stuck (Holo) | <$2 | <$5 |
| #6 | Red | Not A Bot | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
| #7 | Red | Longevity | <$0.50 | <$2 |
| #8 | Gold | Fools Gold Wave Rider | <$0.50 | <$2 |
| #9 | Gold | BLAST.tv (Gold) | <$1 | <$5 |
| #10 | White | Angry T | <$0.25 | <$0.25 |
Four of the same sticker in a row is the classic craft, and on a budget it's cheap: most of the paper picks above come to under $2 for the set, several under $1. A Holo or Gold set costs more but is still in the low single digits. Buy all four at once if you can. Cheap stickers often have only a handful of listings at the lowest price, and the fourth copy can cost noticeably more than the first.
Remember that a sticker on a gun is a one-way trip. The in-game description says a sticker "can be scraped to look more worn" and that you can scrape it "multiple times, making it a bit more worn each time, until it is removed from the weapon". A scraped-off sticker is gone. For skins to put them on, see the budget gallery and our colour loadouts; to buy stickers in bulk, compare Skinport and DMarket against Steam on the same day.
Edge cases
- Steam can be cheaper: for some cheap stickers, like From The Deep, Steam's lowest listing beat Skinport's.
- Thin supply: a sticker with one or two listings can jump in price after you buy the first copy.
- Tournament stickers: team and autograph stickers can gain value after an event; that's not a reason to buy one for a colour build.
- Applied stickers: once on a weapon, a sticker only comes off by scraping it away.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best cheap green sticker in CS2?
Green Gnar for most builds: a green cartoon badge under $0.50 on Skinport on 10 Oct 2026. Mister Chief and The Awper were under $1, and Chief (Foil) was the cheapest shiny green pick on our list.
What are the cheapest purple stickers in CS2?
Terrorist-Tech was the cheapest purple pick, under $0.25 on 10 Oct 2026, followed by Hello MAC-10, The Lurker and Shattered Web, all under $0.50.
What stickers go with green skins?
Pick a sticker that matches the skin's accent. Green Gnar, Mister Chief and The Awper suit the AWP | Atheris, the AK-47 | Ice Coaled and the M4A4 | Full Throttle.
What is the difference between holo, foil and glitter stickers?
Holo shifts colour as the gun moves, foil is reflective metallic, and glitter sparkles. On 10 Oct 2026 the median Holo cost $1.44, Foil $2.04 and Glitter $0.10 on Skinport.
How much does a 4-sticker craft cost?
With cheap paper stickers, often under $1 to $2 for all four on 10 Oct 2026. A set of Holo or Gold stickers costs a few dollars. Buy all four together, since the cheapest listings can run out.
See how this stacks up against the field in our the budget gallery.