Improving the efficiency and product selectivity of CO 2 reduction on catalysts is of great importance. In this work, the CO 2 reduction performance on Cu x @SnS 2 (x = 1−6) was systematically investigated by density functional theory (DFT). Although the CO 2 adsorption strength can only be slightly enhanced, the activity of the two-electron reduction can be effectively governed by the cluster size. Cu x @SnS 2 with x being even exhibits a lower energy barrier for the formation of both CO and HCOOH than that in the odd case. Particularly, Cu 4 @SnS 2 has the lowest energy barrier for the formation of CO, while Cu 2 @SnS 2 has a preference for the formation of HCOOH, showing product selectivity. This unique behavior is determined by the splitting of energy levels and orbital symmetry between the interacted frontier orbitals of Cu-d z 2 /xz/yz and intermediates. Our findings show that including the Cu x cluster is a promising way of designing CO 2 electrocatalysts with high activity and product selectivity.