Point your phone at any sports card and CardGrader identifies it, pulls its real market value from recent sales, and predicts how it would grade — so you know what a card is worth and whether it's worth grading, in seconds.
Try it free — new users get 3 free scan credits.
Available on iPhone and Android.
Take a picture of the front of your card in the app.
AI identifies the exact card — player, year, brand, set, number, and parallel.
See current prices from recent sold listings, raw and graded.
Get an estimated grade so you know its potential graded value.
The honest answer for most cards: it depends on the exact card and its condition — and that's exactly what the scanner tells you. Instead of guessing from a blurry eBay search, CardGrader pins down the precise card (the right player, year, brand, parallel, and number) and shows what comparable copies have actually sold for. You get a real, recent-sales-based value rather than an asking price.
Grading only pays off when a card's graded value clearly beats the cost and the wait — and in 2026 that bar is higher. PSA paused its lower-cost Value tiers amid a backlog approaching 10 million cards, pushing turnaround times and per-card costs up. That makes pre-screening before you submit more valuable than ever: CardGrader's AI grade prediction plus its raw-vs-graded values let you see, up front, whether a specific card is worth sending in.
👉 Read the full breakdown: PSA's 10-Million-Card Backlog (2026): Is It Still Worth Grading?
Most card-scanner apps stop at identification. CardGrader pairs identification with two things collectors actually need before they buy, sell, or grade:
Scan your first sports cards free.
New users get 3 free scan credits — no commitment.
New users get 3 free scan credits to try it. After that, scanning is part of CardGrader's credit-based plans. (Our Pokémon card value checker is free to use on the web — sports identification runs a different model, which is why it's credit-based.)
Values come from recent sold-listing data for the exact card and condition the scanner identifies — real transaction prices, not seller asking prices.
Yes. The app estimates the card's condition grade and shows its raw vs. graded value, so you can judge whether grading is worth the cost and wait before you submit.
The CardGrader app is available for iPhone (iOS) and Android.