Gloves change how your hands look in first person. They are visible on every weapon you hold, which is why many players value them as much as a knife. Gloves were added to CS:GO on 28 November 2016 with the Glove Case, and they have appeared in a handful of cases since, each with its own set of designs.
Gloves sit in the Rare Special Item tier, the gold slot with 0.256% odds per case in the odds published by Perfect World. A case that holds gloves in its gold slot does not hold knives. In the ByMykel item dataset, seven cases carry gloves (Glove, Operation Hydra, Clutch, Operation Broken Fang, Snakebite, Recoil and Revolution) and none of them also carries a knife, so glove hunters open different cases than knife hunters.
Which glove models and finishes exist?
The eight models are Sport Gloves, Specialist Gloves, Driver Gloves, Hand Wraps, Moto Gloves, Bloodhound Gloves, Hydra Gloves and Broken Fang Gloves. Each model has several finishes, and some finishes are far more wanted than others. Sport Gloves tend to lead the market, with finishes like Pandora's Box and Vice among the best known.
Gloves come in the usual five wear tiers, but many finishes look worn even at Field-Tested, and Factory New gloves are scarce because every glove finish has a float range of 0.06 to 0.80, leaving only a sliver of the Factory New tier. This makes wear tier and float a huge part of a glove's price.
Can gloves be StatTrak or Souvenir?
No. Gloves have no StatTrak version and no Souvenir version, which sets them apart from knives and weapon skins. They also cannot take stickers or charms.
How do you get gloves?
Open a case that contains them, buy them from another player or a marketplace, or trade up five Covert skins. Since the 22 October 2025 update, five regular Covert items can be exchanged for one regular knife or one pair of gloves from a collection of one of the inputs, while five StatTrak Covert items only return a StatTrak knife. Because a glove case's gold slot holds several models and finishes, the result of a Covert trade-up is far from certain.