How to Find Your Steam ID

Your Steam ID is the permanent number that identifies your Steam account. Display names and custom URLs can change, but this number does not. You may need it for a tournament sign-up, a community server, a stats site or a support request. This guide shows where to find it and explains the different formats.

Where can you find your Steam ID?

Method 1: Account details in the Steam client

1. Open the Steam client.
2. Click your profile name in the top right corner.
3. Choose Account details.
4. The number appears near the top of the page, under your account name.

This shows the long 17-digit number, known as SteamID64.

Method 2: your profile URL

Open your profile in a browser or the client. If you never set a custom URL, the address looks like steamcommunity.com/profiles/ followed by 17 digits. Those digits are your SteamID64.

If you did set a custom URL, the address shows steamcommunity.com/id/ and your chosen name instead. That name can change, so it is not a reliable ID. Use the Account details method instead.

Method 3: your friend code

In the Steam client, open Friends and choose to add a friend. Steam shows a shorter number called your friend code. It is the account ID part of your Steam ID.

The Steam ID formats explained

Different tools and servers ask for different formats, which is why the same account can look so different from one site to the next. They all describe the same account.

These examples are illustrative shapes, not a real account. The last three rows describe the same made-up account, so you can check the maths below against them.

How the formats connect

Valve's developer documentation explains the maths. The account ID is the core number. In SteamID3, it is the last number inside the brackets. In the legacy format STEAM_X:Y:Z, the account ID equals Z times two, plus Y. For a normal user account, SteamID64 is the account ID plus 76561197960265728.

So you rarely need a converter. If you know one format, you can work out the others with a calculator.

A worked example

Take the made-up account ID 12345678. It is even, so Y is 0 and Z is half of it, 6172839. That gives STEAM_0:0:6172839. The SteamID3 is [U:1:12345678]. Add the base number from Valve's documentation to get the 17-digit version.

Why your Steam ID matters in CS2

• Config folders. CS2 saves your settings under Steam\userdata\[account ID]\730\local\cfg. The folder name is your account ID. Our CS2 config location guide uses this to find the right folder on shared PCs.
• Community servers and leagues. Admins use your ID for whitelists, bans and team rosters.
• Support requests. Including your SteamID64 helps Steam Support find the right account.
• Trading checks. Before you confirm a trade, compare the other profile's ID with the one you expect. Names and avatars are easy to copy. The number is not. Our API key scam guide shows why this matters.

Is it safe to share your Steam ID?

Yes, in most cases. The number is public and appears on your profile anyway. Sharing it does not give anyone access to your account.

Keep these private instead:

• Your account name, the name you sign in with. It is not the same as your profile name.
• Your password and Steam Guard codes.
• Your Steam Web API key, if you have one.

Be careful with sites that ask you to sign in just to look up your ID. You do not need to sign in anywhere else for that. See our fake Steam login guide and the account security checklist.

Sources and checks

Formats and conversions were checked on 1 November 2026 against the Valve Developer Community SteamID page. Steam client menu names can change with updates.

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