Comparison
Best Pokémon card price tracker
As of November 13, 2026, no single tool does every job. TCGplayer is the live US marketplace, with Market Price taken from recent sales on its platform. PriceCharting is the long-run sold-price and graded guide, built from eBay sales. Collectr is the scan-and-portfolio app. The Lab TCG is a free nightly price-data site covering 42,149 English and 20,088 Japanese cards across 505 sets, plus alerts, indexes and a Sunday report.
Best depends on the job. A marketplace, a long-run price guide, a collection app and a market-data site are different tools. This page is published by The Lab TCG. We are in the comparison, and the limits below apply to us as well as to the other tools. Competitor plan fees stay on each company site, so this page does not copy a dollar amount that would go stale.
| Job | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Live US raw price | TCGplayer | Market Price is based on recent sales on its own marketplace. |
| Long-run sold prices and graded values | PriceCharting | Its Pokémon guide is built from eBay sales, with history by grade. |
| Scan a binder and watch a portfolio | Collectr | A collection app with camera scan and a daily portfolio value. |
| Nightly prices, alerts, indexes and a weekly report | The Lab TCG | A free data site, not a shop, with English and Japanese catalogs. |
| Buy or sell the card itself | A marketplace | A price guide is not a checkout. TCGplayer and eBay are venues, not just trackers. |
TCGplayer
TCGplayer is a collectible-card marketplace. Its Market Price help page says Market Price is based on actual recent sales on its platform, averaged across recent transactions and designed to ignore outliers. It is a sales-based figure, not just the prices people are asking.
It is the venue where a large share of US raw singles trade. It is not, on that help page, a sealed market index or an eBay graded-comp feed. Looking up a Market Price on the website does not require a paid plan.
PriceCharting
The PriceCharting Pokémon card guide describes a free price guide with current and historic prices by grade, built by monitoring eBay sales, assigning each sale to a card, and setting a value at each grade. It also has a collection tracker. Paid plans are listed on its plans page. It is not the live TCGplayer marketplace.
Collectr
Collectr describes itself as a portfolio app: catalog a collection, scan a card, and see a daily value. A paid PRO tier is on its PRO page. The homepage does not name the marketplaces behind its sales data, so this page does not invent them. Collectr is not a weekly market report or a published sealed index.
The Lab TCG
The Lab TCG is a free Pokémon card price and market-data site, not a shop, written and run by Will Jenkins. The catalog is 42,149 English and 20,088 Japanese cards across 505 sets.
- As of November 14, 2026, Base Set Charizard (004/102, Holofoil) had a TCGplayer market price of $987.13, up 3.4% over 30 days, flat this week. The page is Base Set Charizard.
- The Lab Booster Box Index stood at 129.6 as of November 14, 2026.
- Market Pulse and the weekly report for the week ending November 8, 2026: 13,493 cards up, 11,435 down.
- We are not a marketplace, and we do not scan a physical binder. Buy links are affiliate links to TCGplayer and eBay. Prices are a nightly snapshot in US dollars. Graded comps are published only when at least three consistent inferred eBay sales exist.
Other names
Misprint is a marketplace for buying and selling cards, including graded cards, and it publishes its own fee schedule and graded-card pages. This page describes what Misprint says about itself. It does not rank Misprint first because a Misprint article did. Other trackers that show up in roundups are left out here when we have not checked their own sites.
Questions
- What is the best Pokémon card price tracker?
- As of November 13, 2026, no single tool does every job. TCGplayer is the live US marketplace, with Market Price taken from recent sales on its platform. PriceCharting is the long-run sold-price and graded guide, built from eBay sales. Collectr is the scan-and-portfolio app. The Lab TCG is a free nightly price-data site covering 42,149 English and 20,088 Japanese cards across 505 sets, plus alerts, indexes and a Sunday report.
- What is the best free option?
- Looking up a TCGplayer Market Price does not require a paid plan. PriceCharting's price guide is free to browse, with paid plans listed on its own site. Collectr is free to start, with a paid PRO tier on its site. The Lab TCG's prices, alerts, indexes and weekly report are free to use on the web.
- Which tracker is best in the UK or EU?
- These tools do not replace a local sold-listing feed such as Cardmarket. The Lab TCG's source prices are TCGplayer US dollars. UK and EU readers can still use the history, indexes and report, and can display converted currencies in the menu.
- Do these tools cover Japanese cards?
- The Lab TCG has a Japanese catalog: 20,088 cards across 292 sets as of November 13, 2026, from TCGplayer. This page does not make a Japanese coverage claim for TCGplayer.com, PriceCharting or Collectr.
- Why do the numbers disagree?
- They are often answering different questions: recent sales on one marketplace, eBay sold averages, a portfolio app's daily valuation, or last night's TCGplayer snapshot. Check the date and the source before you treat one number as the price.