Pokémon Card Prices
HobbyCardIndex tracks 96,555 Pokémon cards, and the average raw (ungraded) card is worth about $76. Every price comes from real sold sales, raw and graded, and it's updated daily.
Source: HobbyCardIndex · Updated daily · https://hobbycardindex.com/categories/pokemonTop Pokémon Sets
Pokemon Promo
Japanese Start Deck 100 Battle Collection
Pokemon Japanese Promo
Promo
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Pokemon 2000 Topps Chrome
Pokemon Ascended Heroes
Pokemon Paldea Evolved
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
Pokemon Fusion Strike
Pokemon Paradox Rift
Pokemon Prismatic Evolutions
Pokemon Japanese Scarlet & Violet 151
Korean Terastal Festival ex
Pokemon Cosmic Eclipse
Korean Mega Dream ex
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Pokemon Japanese Shiny Treasure ex
Pokemon Japanese Mega Dream ex
Pokemon Japanese Terastal Festival
How to find what your Pokémon card is worth
Scan it. Point your phone at the card with the card scanner and it pins the exact card, parallel included, to its real sold prices.
Or look it up. Type the player or character, year, set and card number into the price checker and read the raw and graded prices side by side.
Then check the set. Open the Pokémon set pages to see where your card sits next to the rest of the checklist, because the chase card and the base card from the same set can be a hundred dollars apart.
How Pokemon card prices work
Pokemon has the highest average raw price of any big category we track, about $76 across roughly 96,500 cards, and the biggest graded premium by a distance. Both come from the same place: the hobby is built around a few hundred chase cards, mostly Charizard, Pikachu and the starters, in a few dozen key sets, and the rest of the catalogue is cheap. A holo from a modern set is a few dollars. A Blastoise test print and a No. 1 Trainer trophy card both sit above $100,000 raw in our index, and a Master's Scroll promo at about $57,400.
What sets the price is the card, then the set and print run, then the language and the edition, then the grade and population. The same card in English and Japanese, 1st Edition and Unlimited, Shadowless and not, are different entries with different prices, and the alternate-art and special-illustration rares in the new Scarlet and Violet sets have their own ladder. Raw and graded are separate markets here more than anywhere: across the Pokemon cards we track with both prices, the median PSA 10 sells for about fifteen times the raw price. Every number comes from real sold sales, raw and graded, rebuilt daily.
The sets that set the market
Promos are the biggest single group in our Pokemon catalogue, about 2,040 cards under Pokemon Promo and another 1,120 under Japanese Promo, which makes sense because the Black Star and event promos are their own collecting world and several of our most valuable Pokemon cards are promos. The Japanese side is a big part of the index generally: Start Deck 100 Battle Collection at about 1,130 cards, Scarlet and Violet 151 at 520, Shiny Treasure ex and Mega Dream ex near 490 each, and Korean and Chinese printings of the same sets at a few hundred cards apiece.
On the English side, the current Scarlet and Violet era runs about 500 to 570 cards per set: Ascended Heroes, Paldea Evolved, the base Scarlet and Violet set, Paradox Rift and Prismatic Evolutions, with Fusion Strike and Cosmic Eclipse from the previous era close behind. The oddball is the 2000 Topps Chrome set at about 600 cards, a licensed set from the first boom that collectors still chase. Start with the set when you price a card. A Charizard from Base Set, from 151 and from a modern promo are three different cards, and the set page shows the whole checklist with prices.
What a grade is worth
For the Pokemon cards we track that carry both a raw and a PSA 10 price, about 24,300 of them, the median PSA 10 sells for about fifteen times raw. Nothing else in our index comes close. The reason is partly condition, since old holos scratch and the print lines on vintage cards are brutal, and partly that the Pokemon buyer at the top end simply wants the slab. A clean 1st Edition Base Set holo and the same card graded a 10 are two different objects to that buyer.
A fifteen-times multiple makes grading worth considering on a wider range of cards than in any sports category, but the fee still has to clear. A modern bulk holo worth a dollar raw doesn't become a fifteen-dollar card once you've paid for the slab, and modern sets gem at a high rate, so the premium on new cards is thinner than the median suggests. Vintage holos, alternate arts and anything with a tiny population are where the slab earns it. Before you ship, open the card page: we show raw next to PSA 10, PSA 9, PSA 8 and the BGS, CGC and SGC grades, plus the population report, so you can see how many 10s already exist.
How to use this price guide
Pin the exact printing first. Pokemon has more lookalike cards than any category we track: English and Japanese, 1st Edition and Unlimited, Shadowless, reverse holo, promo stamps, and the new illustration rares. Scan the card with the Pokemon card scanner and it identifies the set, number and variant, or type the name, set and card number into the price checker. The card page shows the raw price, every graded price we carry, the price history chart and the sold comps behind the number.
The most valuable list on this page is raw prices only and has been cleaned of obvious data glitches and sealed product, so it's shorter than you'd expect and graded copies will run higher. The set grid takes you to the full checklist with prices for each set, which is the fastest way to find out whether your Charizard is the chase card or the common one. For vintage, read the sold comps, since condition is most of the price. A free account tracks 25 cards and runs 50 scans a month, and prices refresh daily.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out what my Pokemon cards are worth?
Scan the card with our Pokemon card scanner or search it by name, set and card number. The card page shows the raw price, the graded prices, the price history chart and the recent sold sales behind the number. Check the set symbol, edition stamp and language first, because the same card exists in several versions at different prices.
Are my old Pokemon cards from the 1990s worth anything?
The commons and most non-holos, not much. The holos from Base Set, Jungle and Fossil can be, especially 1st Edition or Shadowless copies in clean shape, and Charizard leads everything. Condition decides most of the price on vintage, so read the sold comps on the card page rather than the headline number before you sell.
Which Pokemon cards are worth money right now?
Trophy cards, early promos and clean vintage holos. In our index a Blastoise test print and a No. 1 Trainer trophy card both sit above $100,000 raw, a Master's Scroll promo is about $57,400 and a No. 2 Trainer about $42,700. On the modern side, the alternate-art and special illustration rares of Charizard and the starters carry the money.
Is grading worth it for Pokemon cards?
More than in any other category. Across the Pokemon cards we track with both prices, the median PSA 10 sells for about fifteen times the raw price. Modern bulk still isn't worth the fee, since the slab costs more than the gain, but vintage holos, alternate arts and low-population cards usually are. Check the population report first.
Are Japanese Pokemon cards worth more than English?
It depends on the card. Japanese printings tend to be cleaner and cheaper raw, and their PSA 10 populations are deeper, so the graded premium is often smaller. English 1st Edition vintage usually sells for more. We list the English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese printings as separate cards, so compare them on their own pages.
How often are these Pokemon card prices updated?
Daily. Every card price on HobbyCardIndex is rebuilt from real sold sales on a rolling nightly cycle, and each card page carries a price history chart so you can see the move over a month, a year or longer. The card count and average price at the top of this page refresh from the same data.
Where do the prices come from?
Real sold prices from eBay and the major auction houses, raw and graded, updated daily. We pull completed sales, not asking prices, from across the market and combine them into one price per card and grade, so the number you see is what people actually paid. Graded prices cover PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC.