Pokémon card price checker

How to work out what a Pokémon card is worth

Most people ask the wrong question first. They ask what the card is worth, when the card does not have one price. It has three, and which one applies to you depends on a plastic case.

Find the exact card, not the Pokémon

Charizard is not a card. It is 135 separate cards in this index alone, spread across 84 different sets, and they are not remotely worth the same. The number in the corner and the set name are what separate a $343,000 Base Set first edition from a $12 reprint of the same artwork. Search the name here, then use the set chips to narrow to the one in your hand.

Read the right column

Raw is the card ungraded, as it sits in your binder. PSA 9 and PSA 10 are what it makes once a grading company has sealed it in a slab and called it near-mint or gem mint. Unless your card is already graded, the raw price is your price.

Understand the gap before you send anything away

Across the 9,621 cards where we hold both figures, the median PSA 10 sells for about 15 times its raw price. That gap is why people grade. It is also a trap: you only collect it if the card actually comes back a 10, and most do not. Grading costs money and takes months whatever grade it earns, so the honest way to read the PSA 10 column is as a ceiling, not a valuation.

Treat every price as a moving number

These are real sale prices, refreshed daily, not a fixed book value. A card that sold for $400 last month can sell for $250 today because one collector listed three of them at once. Every card page here carries its own price history so you can see whether the number you are looking at is a trend or a spike.

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