Grading · Calculator · October 29, 2026

Should I Grade My
Pokémon Card?

Grading pays when your odds of a PSA 10 beat the card’s break-even rate. Pick your card below: we show its raw, PSA 9, PSA 10 and TAG 10 sold prices, each with its sale count and date, and work out how often it has to come back a 10 at your cost. 1,020 cards have enough sales to run, read October 29, 2026.

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Type a Pokémon name and number, or tap a card in the table below.

Your costs (change these to yours)

Defaults: PSA Standard is $59.99 a card (psacard.com, read Sep 25, 2026); $62.75 adds shipping and supplies spread over a 20-card batch. eBay fees are 13.25% plus $0.40 an order (eBay Seller Center). If you send to TAG, put TAG’s price in the first box.

Worked examples

Break-Even PSA 10 Rate for Cards People Ask About

At the default costs above: the share of copies that would have to come back PSA 10 for grading to beat selling raw. “Pays even on a 9” means the PSA 9 median, after fees and grading, is already above the raw median. Tap a card to run it with your own numbers.

CardRawPSA 9PSA 10Pays if 10s are overeBay
Charizard #4Base Set (Unlimited)$36839 sales to Oct 26, 2026$3,811PSA 9 median, 18 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$10,300PSA 10 median, 3 sales, 90 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Umbreon VMAX #215Evolving Skies$1,76336 sales to Oct 26, 2026$2,050PSA 9 median, 24 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$3,600PSA 10 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Charizard ex #199Scarlet & Violet 151$29934 sales to Oct 29, 2026$356PSA 9 median, 30 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$1,297PSA 10 median, 30 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 20262%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Charizard GX #SV49Hidden Fates$60021 sales to Oct 26, 2026$595PSA 9 median, 20 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$1,450PSA 10 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 20269%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Gengar & Mimikyu GX #165Team Up$1,32517 sales to Oct 26, 2026$2,725PSA 9 median, 10 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$7,100PSA 10 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Gengar #5Fossil (1st Edition)$45033 sales to Oct 26, 2026$4,125PSA 9 median, 16 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$58,000PSA 10 median, 5 sales, 90 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Pikachu #58Base Set (Unlimited)$6.5043 sales to Oct 26, 2026$87.00PSA 9 median, 14 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$604PSA 10 median, 12 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Rayquaza VMAX #218Evolving Skies$1,00035 sales to Oct 26, 2026$1,069PSA 9 median, 24 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$1,925PSA 10 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026under 1%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Mew #GG10Crown Zenith$62.9839 sales to Oct 26, 2026$100PSA 9 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$1,088PSA 10 median, 30 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 20264%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Pikachu ex #238Surging Sparks$25045 sales to Oct 29, 2026$223PSA 9 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$745PSA 10 median, 28 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 202619%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Charizard #4Celebrations (set + 25th-anniversary promos)$16238 sales to Oct 26, 2026$175PSA 9 median, 21 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$473PSA 10 median, 28 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 202620%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Pikachu #173Scarlet & Violet 151$66.9440 sales to Oct 29, 2026$88.65PSA 9 median, 27 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$467PSA 10 median, 29 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 202613%Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Blastoise #2Base Set (Unlimited)$11533 sales to Oct 26, 2026$1,100PSA 9 median, 19 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$11,706PSA 10 median, 4 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Venusaur #15Base Set (Unlimited)$74.0139 sales to Oct 26, 2026$630PSA 9 median, 19 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$5,300PSA 10 median, 7 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay
Pikachu #60Jungle (1st Edition)$23.9947 sales to Oct 26, 2026$193PSA 9 median, 20 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026$1,400PSA 10 median, 25 sales, 30 d to Oct 26, 2026pays even on a 9Raw on eBayPSA 10 on eBay

Across all 1,020 cards at those costs: 346 clear the bar even on a PSA 9, 528 need some share of 10s, and 145 don’t pay even on a 10. Most of the “pays on a 9” cards are vintage, where the raw median is pulled down by played copies. If your copy is clean, its raw value is higher than the median, so enter it.

The math

How the Break-Even Works

Selling raw gets you the raw price minus eBay fees. Grading gets you the PSA 10 price on the copies that hit and the miss price on the rest, minus fees and the grading cost. The break-even is the PSA 10 rate where those two are equal. If you think your copy has better odds than that rate, grading has paid on these sales; if not, it hasn’t. Turnaround time and the money tied up while you wait aren’t in the number.

How big the gap between grades runs, by era: PSA 10 vs every other grade. TAG beside PSA: how TAG grading works. PSA’s tiers and process: PSA grading guide.

Method

Where the Numbers Come From

Dated eBay sold prices. Raw is the median of clean ungraded sales over 30 days (90 on 1st Edition and Shadowless cards). PSA 9, PSA 10 and TAG 10 are medians of at least 3 sales whose own titles name the grade, over 30 days when there are enough and 90 when there aren’t; each card shows its count. A card with fewer sales shows its one dated sale and no break-even. Lots, proxies and reprints are dropped. Read October 29, 2026. These are past sales, not advice.