Card Value Scanner — Find Out What Your Card Actually Sold For
CardGauge is a free card value scanner. Scan any trading card and see real completed sales, not asking prices. No signup, no scan limit — for sports cards and Pokémon.
The year, the set and the card number are printed on the back of a card. The front is artwork. A front-only scan is guessing from a picture, and it goes wrong most often on vintage, Pokémon and parallels — the cards where being wrong costs the most.
CardGauge asks for both sides. Most people give it both, and the answer is better for it.
If a search is pulling refractors in with base cards, CardGauge says so and withholds the price rather than averaging them into something that looks certain. No marketplace has a reason to do that. This isn't a marketplace.
📷 Scan a card — both sides read, identified, and priced from real sales.
💰 See what buyers paid — completed sales including accepted best offers, not what sellers are asking.
🔍 Check before you grade — the maths on whether grading pays, worked out on a PSA 9 rather than a 10.
📚 Keep what you find — save cards to a free binder, re-priced every night.
🏟️ Log finds at a show — keep a record of what you bought and what you paid.
Baseball · Basketball · Football · Hockey · Pokémon
Pokémon cards get their own handling: set codes are expanded to real set names, Japanese cards are priced separately from English, and 1st Edition, Shadowless and Reverse Holo are treated as the different cards they are.
Most grading calculators run the maths on a PSA 10 and tell you to submit. Most cards don't come back 10s, so that's advice built on the best possible outcome.
CardGauge runs it on the 9 — what a genuinely nice raw card realistically grades — against the raw sold price and the grading fee. If it doesn't clear at a 9, the honest answer is don't bother, and it says so.
Pricing is free and always will be — no account, no limit.
Save cards to a binder and they're re-priced every night. The first 25 are free.
CardGauge Pro — $12.99/month — adds an unlimited binder, the Profit Tracker (what you paid against what you'd actually clear after fees) and the Portfolio. Cancel anytime.
How do I find out what my card is worth?
Scan it. CardGauge identifies the card from photos of the front and back, then shows what copies have actually sold for recently — including accepted best offers, which don't always show in a marketplace's completed listings.
Is the card scanner free?
Yes. Scanning and pricing are free, with no account and no scan limit. The only paid part is running a collection beyond 25 saved cards.
Can I scan sports cards?
Yes — baseball, basketball, football and hockey, raw or graded. Graded slabs are read from the label.
Can I scan Pokémon cards?
Yes, including Japanese cards and variants like 1st Edition, Shadowless and Reverse Holo, which are priced as separate cards because that's what they are.
Why does it ask for the back of the card?
The year, the set and the card number are printed there. Scanning the front alone means guessing those from artwork, which is where most scanners go wrong on vintage and parallels.
Can CardGauge tell me whether to grade a card?
It gives you the maths: what the card sells for at each grade, against the raw price and the grading fee. It works it out on a PSA 9 rather than a 10, because most cards don't come back 10s — and it says plainly when grading isn't worth it.
Why does it sometimes refuse to show a price?
When the recent sales it finds describe more than one version of a card — a base card and its parallels mixed together — the median doesn't mean anything. It says so instead of showing a confident number that's wrong.
Can I keep track of my cards?
Yes. Save cards to a binder free up to 25, and they're re-priced every night. CardGauge Pro removes the cap and adds the Profit Tracker and Portfolio.
Know what your card is worth — and what to do with it.