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CardGrade is a free AI Pokemon card grader: upload a photo and it predicts your PSA, BGS & CGC grade in ~60 seconds — then tells you, in dollars, which cards are worth slabbing and which to keep raw. No mailing. No year-long wait.
Cancel anytime. 2-grade credit-back guarantee.
Not a mystery number. A full breakdown that shows you exactly why your card grades the way it does — and whether it's worth the submission fee.
A bad submission costs you the fee, the shipping, and months of waiting. Grading first costs pennies.
Real data from cards collectors ran through CardGrade — the share our AI predicts would gem (a perfect 10). It pays to know your set before you submit.
predicted PSA 10 across every Pokemon card we've analyzed
vintage WOTC is brutal — print and centering rarely hit a 10. Test before you submit.
AI-predicted grades across cards CardGrade analyzed — not official PSA/BGS/CGC outcomes. See the full Gem Rate Index →
Centering, corners, edges, and surface — the four things PSA grades, read the way a grader reads them.
Pokemon cards fail Gem Mint on centering more than anything else. We measure exact left/right and top/bottom ratios and tell you if it clears the 60/40 front threshold a PSA 10 demands.
Scratches, silvering, and surface wear hide on reflective foils. Our AI is trained to read holo, reverse-holo, and full-art finishes that a quick eye-ball misses.
Base Set, Jungle, Fossil, Neo, and every modern set including Japanese exclusives. The model adjusts for the card stock and print of each Pokemon era.
Every report names your weakest axis in plain English (“this corner is capping you at a 9”) so you actually understand the grade instead of staring at a mystery score.
See the card’s value raw, at PSA 9, and at PSA 10 — so the “is this worth submitting?” question is answered in money, not vibes.
The four things that decide it — and why most people get this wrong.
A PSA 10 needs roughly 60/40 centering on the front. It does NOT need a perfect 50/50 — that’s a myth. Most Gem Mint fails are centering, and you can’t fix it after the fact.
Centering, corners, edges, surface — your lowest one sets the ceiling. A single soft corner invisible to your eye frays under a loupe and drops a 10 to a 9.
A Base Set Charizard runs ~$800 in a PSA 9 but ~$5,000 in a PSA 10 — a 6× jump. Modern cards are 2–3×. That gap is exactly why pre-screening pays for itself in a single card.
All-in (fee + shipping + insurance) a PSA submission runs ~$25–$75+. As a rule of thumb the slabbed value should be 3–4× the raw price before it’s worth it.
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“The insane level of accuracy for this app is great. It is ruthless and I’m very pleased so far.”
With PSA's cheap Value tiers paused, one card now costs $79.99–$599 to submit — plus shipping and weeks of waiting. CardGrade tells you which are worth it for as little as 25¢ a card.
No — and we’re upfront about that. CardGrade is a pre-grade: it predicts how PSA, BGS, or CGC would likely grade your card so you can decide what’s worth submitting. It does not slab or authenticate the card. Think of it as a fast, cheap second opinion before you commit money and weeks to an official submission.
CardGrade gives you AI grade predictions designed to closely match professional grades, and across the Pokemon cards collectors run through it the average predicted grade is 9.0. We show our reasoning on every card (per-axis subgrades and the specific flaw capping your grade) rather than emitting a single black-box number — so you can judge the call yourself.
Almost always one axis is dragging it down — usually centering (Pokemon cards miss Gem Mint on centering more than any other factor) or a single soft corner invisible to the naked eye. Your report highlights the weakest axis and the exact reason, so you know whether a different copy might grade higher.
Yes. Base Set through Neo, Japanese exclusives, and every modern set are supported. The model accounts for the different card stock, sizing, and print standards across eras and regions.
Only if the slabbed value clears the all-in cost. A PSA submission runs roughly $20–$150+ per card plus shipping and insurance, and the value usually needs to be ~3–4× the raw price to make sense. For a vintage Charizard the 9→10 jump can be thousands; for modern bulk it often isn’t worth it. Pre-grading tells you which is which before you spend a cent.
Centering is excellent at 60/40. Your corners are the cap — a faint touch on the bottom-left holds this at a 9, not a 10.
The 9→10 jump is worth chasing on this one.
Illustrative report. Predicted grades are not official PSA/BGS/CGC grades.
No mailing, no insurance, no year-long wait. Triage a shoebox of cards into submit / hold / skip while you sit on the couch.
Just checking a few cards? Credit packs from $5 — never expire. Plans from $4.99/mo.
Never. You upload a photo (or scan with the app) and the card stays in your hands. No shipping, no insurance, no risk of a lost or damaged card in transit — and no waiting on PSA’s backlog.