Step 1
Pick the card
Search for it, or type the raw market price yourself. The year matters more than people expect: a 1999 holo and a 2024 holo of the same raw price behave completely differently once they are in a slab.
Is this card worth grading?
Grading costs real money and months of waiting, and most cards come back worth less than the fee. Answer a few questions about the card in your hand and this works out the grade you need to break even, what the submission actually costs once shipping and selling fees are in, and your odds of clearing it.
- Centering measured from a photo, not guessed
- Real cost per card, shipping included
- Odds of clearing break even
1Which card
2What shape is it in
Centering
Corners
Edges
Surface
Anything on this list
3How you would send it
Got a real sold comp
One real sold price beats every estimate in this app. Paste one if you have it.
Do not send it
Estimates onlyEdge vs selling it raw
-$78.58
Break even
None
Odds
0%
Cost per card
$83.35
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2
3
4
5
6
77
438
439
710
Show these numbers as a table
| Grade | Chance | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 7.2% | Loses money |
| 9 | 42.7% | Loses money |
| 8 | 42.7% | Loses money |
| 7 | 7.2% | Loses money |
Show every grade and where its price came from
| Grade | Worth | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $96 | Our estimate |
| 9 | $36.8 | Our estimate |
| 8 | $27.2 | Our estimate |
| 7 | $22.4 | Our estimate |
| 6 | $19.2 | Our estimate |
| 5 | $17.6 | Our estimate |
| 4 | $14.4 | Our estimate |
| 3 | $11.2 | Our estimate |
| 2 | $9.6 | Our estimate |
| 1 | $9.6 | Our estimate |
Why
- No grade on the scale pays for the submission on this card. Even a perfect 10 comes back worth less than the fees you paid to get it.
- All in cost is $83.35 per card at a batch of 20, against a PSA Regular sticker price of $79.99. Shipping and supplies are the rest.
- Selling it raw today nets about $19.97 after selling costs. Grading it nets about -$58.61 on average, a difference of -$78.58.
- Graded prices here are era based estimates, not sold comps. Paste one real sold price for the grade you care about and this answer gets far sharper.
- You wait roughly 45 days for the result, and the card is out of your hands the whole time.
- Centering was eyeballed, so the estimate carries more spread than it needs to.
Nets if graded
-$58.61
Nets if sold raw
$19.97
How it gets to an answer
Step 2
Measure the centering
Centering is the one thing a phone can judge objectively, so the app measures it from a photo instead of asking you to eyeball it. Eyeballed answers are shaded down, because people are kind to their own cards.
Step 3
Read the edge
The answer is not whether a slab is worth more than a raw card, which is almost always yes and almost always misleading. It is whether the gain covers the fee, the postage, the selling costs and the wait.
The longer version covers the grade model, where the prices come from, and what the app refuses to claim.
It tells you when it is guessing
Every graded price carries where it came from: a sold price you entered, a market data provider, or the app's own era based estimate. The verdict shows which, at every grade, and names the one the decision actually turns on.
When the whole curve is estimated, the app will not say send unless the edge is large enough to survive the estimate being wrong. A coin flip dressed up as advice is worse than no advice, and this is the exact mistake the product exists to prevent.