Card Price Tools Compared: TCGplayer, PriceCharting, Collectr & More
Ask five price tools what a card is worth and you can get five different answers. That isn't because four of them are wrong. Each one measures something slightly different, from a different pool of sales, for a different kind of user. Once you know what each number actually is, the disagreement stops being confusing and starts being useful.
This is a comparison of the tools most collectors reach for, including SplitShot. We've tried to be as straight about our own limits as about anyone else's. Features and prices are as of October 2026 and do change, so check each tool's own site before relying on a detail.
TCGplayer: the North American reference price
What the number is. TCGplayer's Market Price is built from recent sales completed on TCGplayer itself, for the specific printing and condition you have selected. Its page also shows a Listed Median, which is the middle of what sellers are currently asking — a different thing, and often a much higher one on older cards where only the expensive copies are left unsold.
Best for: singles from the major games in the US, priced by condition and printing. Watch out for: reading the listed prices as the value. The market price is the one that reflects what people paid. We explain the difference properly in market price vs listed price vs sold price.
Cardmarket: the European reference
What the number is. Cardmarket is Europe's largest card marketplace, and its trend price is a smoothed average of recent sales on the platform, with 1-, 7- and 30-day averages alongside it. Prices are in euros and reflect the European market, which can sit well above or below the US for the same card.
Best for: anyone buying or selling in Europe. Watch out for: converting a Cardmarket price straight into dollars and treating it as the US value. They are different markets with different supply.
PriceCharting: sold history and graded tiers
What the number is. PriceCharting collects sold listings from eBay (and its own marketplace) and combines them with an algorithm that weighs recency, medians and averages and filters outliers. It sorts sales into ungraded and graded tiers — Grade 7, 8, 9, 9.5, PSA 10 and BGS 10 — by reading the listing title and description. Shipping is not included.
Best for: long price histories and graded values, across trading cards and (via its sister site) sports cards. Watch out for: the ungraded price. Because it comes from eBay listing text, it can blend copies in very different conditions into one number. Read it as "a typical raw copy", not "a Near Mint copy".
Collectr: tracking a whole collection
What it is. Collectr is a portfolio app first: you add or scan your cards into a collection and it tracks the total value over time across trading card games and sports cards. The core app is free; its paid tier (around $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year at the time of writing) unlocks things like unlimited scanning and data exports.
Best for: people who want to catalogue hundreds or thousands of cards and watch the total. Watch out for: treating a portfolio total as what the collection would sell for. A collection sold in one go fetches less than the sum of its individual market prices.
SplitShot: one consensus value, plus what to pay and ask
What the number is. For each card we gather every price signal available to us from open card-data sources — TCGdex for Pokémon, Scryfall for Magic, YGOPRODeck for Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcast for Lorcana, and TCGplayer's daily catalogue via TCGCSV for eleven other games — drop the outliers, and combine the rest into one fair value with a confidence score. On top of that we give an optimal buy price, an optimal sell price and, for sellers, what lands in your pocket after fees. The full method is on our methodology page.
Best for: a fast, free answer to "what should I pay for this, or ask for it?" across 15 games, with no account. There's also a watchlist and portfolio (stored on your own device), a camera scanner in beta, daily price movers and a market index.
Our limits, plainly:
- We don't have a sale-by-sale history. Our values reflect current market consensus, not a list of individual recent sales — use PriceCharting or eBay's sold listings when you need those.
- For the eleven games we read from TCGplayer's daily catalogue, there is effectively one underlying source, so the "consensus" there is narrower than for Pokémon or Magic. The confidence score says so.
- We don't cover sports cards. For those, tools built around sports sales data are the better choice.
- Our watchlist lives in your browser, so it doesn't follow you between devices the way an account-based app does.
Which one should you use?
- Pricing a single card to buy or sell in the US: TCGplayer's market price, cross-checked against a consensus value like ours.
- Buying or selling in Europe: Cardmarket.
- Graded cards and long histories: PriceCharting, plus eBay sold listings for the most recent individual sales.
- Tracking a big collection over time: a portfolio app such as Collectr.
- "Is this a fair price?" in ten seconds, for any of 15 games: SplitShot.
The honest answer is that serious collectors use two or three of these, because they answer different questions. When they disagree, that disagreement is information: a card whose prices are scattered is a card whose value is genuinely uncertain, and that's exactly when to slow down. Our guide to valuing any trading card walks through how to reconcile them.