Fade: the finish and its percentage
Fade: Fade is an airbrushed finish: transparent paints that fade together over a chrome base coat. Its “percentage” doesn’t exist in the game. It’s a value worked out by the community.
Where the percentage comes from
As on any skin, the pattern number (seed) sets the offset and rotation of the paint. An open-source calculator reproduces that step and gives every rotation a percentage between 80% and 100%: 100% for the best one, 80% for the worst.
The same copy can show different percentages from one site to another. According to that project, some sites still work from screenshots, and reach very different results. Fade gloves aren’t covered by the calculator.
What about “full fade”?
The term has no official definition and no published threshold: neither Valve nor the calculator uses it. The only written reference point is the calculator’s scale, where 100% is the best rotation.
What our prices tell you
We record prices by market name, without the seed. The price shown below is the lowest on sale for that name, whatever its percentage.
Fade skins and what they cost today
Every Fade family in the catalogue, with the range of recorded prices across all wears, versions and percentages.
Most recent price reading: , Paris time.
| Skin | Recorded prices | Last reading (Paris time) |
|---|---|---|
| Navaja Knife | Fade | €82.74 to €163.21 | |
| Gut Knife | Fade | €97.59 to €246.59 | |
| Survival Knife | Fade | €102.06 to €234.72 | |
| Paracord Knife | Fade | €111.18 to €255.44 | |
| Shadow Daggers | Fade | €111.87 to €162.55 | |
| Kukri Knife | Fade | €131.83 to €183.89 | |
| Ursus Knife | Fade | €149.09 to €327.60 | |
| Bowie Knife | Fade | €156.97 to €316.16 | |
| Falchion Knife | Fade | €161.75 to €352.27 | |
| Huntsman Knife | Fade | €177.98 to €606.46 | |
| Classic Knife | Fade | €210.00 to €288.98 | |
| Nomad Knife | Fade | €221.40 to €390.11 | |
| Flip Knife | Fade | €243.95 to €337.06 | |
| Bayonet | Fade | €278.27 to €551.56 | |
| Stiletto Knife | Fade | €333.17 to €374.36 | |
| Skeleton Knife | Fade | €409.14 to €512.80 | |
| Talon Knife | Fade | €645.79 to €1,162.07 | |
| M9 Bayonet | Fade | €764.32 to €998.68 | |
| Karambit | Fade | €1,498.56 to €1,560.00 | |
| Butterfly Knife | Fade | €1,733.88 to €2,364.38 | |
| MP7 | Fade | €5.91 to €29.98 | |
| MAC-10 | Fade | €33.68 to €103.73 | |
| R8 Revolver | Fade | €64.80 to €880.67 | |
| Specialist Gloves | Fade | €88.58 to €1,379.22 | |
| UMP-45 | Fade | €138.12 to €189.83 | |
| M4A1-S | Fade | €147.07 to €303.12 | |
| AWP | Fade | €525.15 to €1,182.19 | |
| Glock-18 | Fade | €1,184.50 to €1,893.44 |
Asking prices before fees, recorded on the marketplaces we track. They aren’t completed sales. “—” means not measured, never 0. How these prices are calculated
Sources
Before you pay, read what to check on the listing. And to see how much the same skin’s price moves from one marketplace to the next: the price gap index.