You're spending $25–$599 per card on grading fees. Most cards lose money. We calculate the Expected Value of grading any Pokemon card — combining live market prices, real gem rates, and grading costs — so you only send in cards that actually profit.
You're checking PriceCharting for prices, PSA's pop report for gem rates, then doing the math by hand for every card. We pull all three data sources together and calculate your Expected Value instantly.
Live raw and graded sale prices across 8,800+ cards. We track what PSA 7s through 10s actually sell for — plus BGS, CGC, and SGC prices — so your profit calculation uses real market data, not listing prices.
Your odds of getting a PSA 10 aren’t 50/50 — they’re based on tens of thousands of real submissions. We use actual population data to calculate the probability of every grade from Authentic to Gem Mint.
21 pricing tiers across PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, and TAG. See which company and service level gives you the best margin on each card — because a $15 CGC Economy submission might beat a $150 PSA Express.
Most grading calculators ask “what's my profit if I get a PSA 10?” That's like asking “what's my profit if I win the lottery?” Our Expected Value formula weighs every possible grade outcome — from Gem Mint to Authentic — by its actual probability and market value. The result is what you'd actually average over many submissions. That's a number you can build a business on.
When a grade doesn't have enough market data, we use the raw card price as a floor — because you can always crack the slab. No inflated projections, no “potential” values. Just what the data supports.
Grade 50 cards using EV and your actual profit will converge toward our projections. That's the power of expected value — it turns grading from a coin flip into a repeatable system.
A card can have positive EV and still be a bad submission. Low sample size, illiquid market, volatile pricing — we check for all of it before giving you a verdict.
80% gem rate sounds amazing — until you realize that’s 4 out of 5 submissions. Small sample sizes are misleading. We require 100+ graded copies before giving a confident “Grade it” verdict, and flag everything below that threshold.
Your PSA 10 is only worth $500 if someone actually buys it. We check sales volume to make sure there's a real market, not just one lucky auction.
Our EV formula accounts for every possible grade, not just the 10. Getting a PSA 8 on a card you paid $200 for can mean losing money — we factor that in.
Cards from sets released in the last 6 months have unstable pricing. Today's $100 card could be $40 by the time your slab comes back from PSA.
Search any card and see its real Expected Value in seconds. Or browse our weekly-updated rankings of the most profitable cards to grade right now — sorted by ROI, filterable by set, company, and price range.