Community price on backpack.tf: 115 keys, last changed 2025-10-29 (10mo ago). The live quote above, 116 keys, is 1% higher and last moved 3h ago. They are different measures: the quote is what traders and bots are asking and bidding on the classifieds right now, and it moves for thousands of items every day; the community price is a suggestion accepted by vote, which changes only when someone argues it should. A quote well away from the vote is usually a price that is about to be re-argued. Community prices from backpack.tf, read under an hour ago.
Steam Market asking price: $380.01 — the lowest of one listing for the Nuts n' Bolts effect when we looked on 2026-08-31 01:30 UTC (6d ago). This is what a seller is asking, not what anything sold for. Steam pays out in Steam wallet funds, not cash, and Valve takes roughly 15% at the till — so asking prices there run well above the 116 keys, 30.88 ref shown above, which comes from the keys-and-metal market on backpack.tf. The two are different markets and are never blended. Steam lists the item as “Unusual Soldered Sensei”, with no effect in the name — the effect comes from the individual listing.
Price history
56 observations
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Nuts n' Bolts Soldered Sensei sell price, 2025-09-25 to 2026-09-05: 56 observations, from 113 keys to 116 keys. Sampled evenly across the range.
Observed (UTC)
Sell
Buy
25 SEP 2025 · 03:29 UTC
113 keys
92.1 keys
30 SEP 2025 · 20:44 UTC
111 keys
91.1 keys
19 OCT 2025 · 20:14 UTC
101 keys
91.1 keys
25 OCT 2025 · 16:34 UTC
96.4 keys
86.8 keys
8 DEC 2025 · 00:48 UTC
131 keys
72.3 keys
22 DEC 2025 · 01:07 UTC
122 keys
73.2 keys
29 DEC 2025 · 00:50 UTC
117 keys
94.7 keys
17 JAN 2026 · 22:09 UTC
105 keys
90.3 keys
22 JUN 2026 · 17:13 UTC
88.7 keys
77.1 keys
5 JUL 2026 · 23:12 UTC
85.8 keys
74.6 keys
12 JUL 2026 · 22:44 UTC
87.5 keys
76.1 keys
29 JUL 2026 · 02:45 UTC
95.2 keys
82.9 keys
3 AUG 2026 · 00:24 UTC
97.7 keys
84.9 keys
10 AUG 2026 · 01:11 UTC
103 keys
89.4 keys
21 AUG 2026 · 14:08 UTC
93.8 keys
81.6 keys
21 AUG 2026 · 18:09 UTC
95.0 keys
82.6 keys
22 AUG 2026 · 00:08 UTC
96.1 keys
83.5 keys
22 AUG 2026 · 08:08 UTC
93.7 keys
81.5 keys
22 AUG 2026 · 10:09 UTC
93.6 keys
81.4 keys
22 AUG 2026 · 18:09 UTC
96.1 keys
83.6 keys
23 AUG 2026 · 00:08 UTC
96.1 keys
83.6 keys
23 AUG 2026 · 08:08 UTC
96.4 keys
83.8 keys
23 AUG 2026 · 12:08 UTC
96.2 keys
83.7 keys
23 AUG 2026 · 18:08 UTC
96.4 keys
83.8 keys
24 AUG 2026 · 00:09 UTC
96.6 keys
84.0 keys
25 AUG 2026 · 00:08 UTC
96.4 keys
83.8 keys
26 AUG 2026 · 10:08 UTC
96.6 keys
84.0 keys
27 AUG 2026 · 12:08 UTC
96.8 keys
84.1 keys
28 AUG 2026 · 09:36 UTC
97.1 keys
84.4 keys
29 AUG 2026 · 08:09 UTC
97.5 keys
84.8 keys
29 AUG 2026 · 20:09 UTC
97.8 keys
85.0 keys
30 AUG 2026 · 20:09 UTC
107 keys
93.4 keys
31 AUG 2026 · 08:09 UTC
109 keys
94.6 keys
1 SEP 2026 · 08:08 UTC
110 keys
95.8 keys
1 SEP 2026 · 20:08 UTC
112 keys
97.5 keys
2 SEP 2026 · 08:08 UTC
110 keys
96.0 keys
3 SEP 2026 · 10:08 UTC
111 keys
96.8 keys
4 SEP 2026 · 02:08 UTC
116 keys
101 keys
5 SEP 2026 · 02:08 UTC
119 keys
103 keys
5 SEP 2026 · 14:08 UTC
116 keys
101 keys
Price history in numbers
56 readings since 25 Sep 2025
Over the last 30 days the Nuts n' Bolts Soldered Sensei's sell price ranged from 93.6 keys to 119 keys and is up 13.4% after 37 moves. Over a year it ranged from 85.8 keys to 131 keys (up 3.4%). Today's 116 keys sits in the upper third of its range: the lowest we have recorded is 85.8 keys (5 Jul 2026) and the highest 131 keys (8 Dec 2025). The price has moved 55 times since we began recording it — about once every 6 days.