About Steam Dashboard

What this site is

Steam Dashboard is a decision layer for the Steam item economy. The core is a CS2 skins catalog with fee-aware price comparison: for every item we show what you would actually pay (listed price plus buyer fee) across 36 marketplaces, and what you would actually keep when selling (buy order minus the venue's commission) — with region fit, payment rails and capture timestamps on every row.

The current snapshot prices more than 16,000 of the catalog's 18,000+ items. The catalog itself renders in 28 languages using Valve's own localization files, and the markets directory documents 36 venues with verified fees, KYC rules and payout facts.

Around the core: a Deadlock section, and a set of honest Steam utilities — status monitoring, player charts, ID lookup, account calculator, sales calendar — that show real data or nothing.

How we work

Every number on the site is computed from verifiable sources and carries its capture time; when data is missing, the page shows honest absence instead of an estimate. The full rules are public:

• How we price CS2 skins — data sources, fee formulas, FX, coverage and limitations
• How we rate marketplaces — the dossier rubric and what disqualifies a venue
• How we make money — monetization disclosure, written before any of it exists
• Editorial policy — sourcing, corrections and AI-assistance disclosure

History

• Since 2011. The team behind the site had been building and running Steam and CS item tools — price tracking, inventory analysis and game-file research — for years, available by invitation to a limited community rather than published on the open web.
• Early 2026. We take the project public, rebuilding the private tooling into an open set of Steam status and analytics tools.
• April 2026. First archived CS2 price snapshots; the snapshot history has been retained since.
• June 2026. The CS2 catalog is rebuilt data-first, and a site-wide integrity audit removes everything that cannot be verified — the audit that became our editorial policy.
• July 2026. Fee-aware buy and sell comparison ships with region fit and payment-rail filters, and the methodology behind it is published.

Who runs it

The site is operated by the Steam Dashboard team, which has built and maintained Steam and CS item tools since 2011. The work splits into three beats: data engineering (the pricing pipeline, snapshots and catalog sync), market research (fee verification and the market dossiers), and localization (native English and Russian, plus the Valve-file terminology powering the other 26 catalog languages).

We publish no individual bios yet — when we do, they will be real people with verifiable track records, per our editorial policy.

Independence

Steam Dashboard is an independent project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Valve Corporation. We operate no marketplace and are independent of every venue we compare.

Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, ideas: contact@steamdb.com (we reply within 48 hours). Business inquiries: business@steamdb.com. Details on the contact page.