Is the COMPED price checker free?

Yes. Searching cards, seeing the weighted comp, the sold evidence behind it and the trend history costs nothing and needs no card details.

Do I need to scan the card?

No. You can type the name and pick the exact printing. Scanning exists as a shortcut for bulk work, not as a requirement for a price check.

Does it cover sealed product and graded slabs?

Yes — search modes cover singles, sealed product and slabs, with graded prices loaded on demand so single-card checks stay fast.

Why is a card sometimes shown as a range?

Because the honest answer is a range when only a few comparable sales exist. COMPED shows the range and the number of sales behind it instead of inventing a precise figure.

Why does the price checker sometimes refuse to give a number?

If no comparable sold listing survives the filters, COMPED says so. Showing an unbacked figure is how valuations drift, so a card with no usable evidence is reported as unpriced with the closest evidence listed instead.

Why are vintage cards harder to price check than modern ones?

Modern cards sell constantly; vintage cards do not, and their value splits across editions and conditions. Fewer sales spread across more variants means a wider, slower-moving range — which is the accurate answer, not a shortcoming.

Why doesn't the graded price match the single price?

Because they are separate markets. Graded comps come from sales of that exact grader and grade, which is why they load on demand and are labelled separately from the raw single.

Price checker

Pokémon card price checker that shows its evidence

Most price checkers hand you one number with no explanation of where it came from. COMPED gives you the comp, the sales it was built from, the condition it assumes and how confident it is.

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What a price check should actually tell you

Which exact printing was priced — set, number, language, finish and edition.
What condition the number assumes, and what the other conditions are worth.
How many comparable sales are behind it, and how recent they are.
Which market and currency: a GBP figure for a UK sale, not a converted US market price.
Whether the data is thin enough that you should treat the figure as a range.

If a checker cannot answer those five questions, you are being handed a guess with a decimal point on it.

Pick the right number for the decision

Which price to use for which decision
Your decision	The number to use
Selling fast on eBay UK	The lower end of recent UK sold comps
Buying at a fair price	The weighted comp, checked against the last few sales
Trading card for card	Same condition tier on both sides, mid-range comp
Insuring or tracking a collection	The weighted comp across your held conditions
Deciding whether to grade	Raw comp vs verified slab comps for that grade

How COMPED builds a number

UK sold data first. Completed eBay UK sales in GBP are the primary evidence. If a card is thinly traded, the search widens to global sold data rather than falling back to a guess.
Exact printing only. Set, number, language, finish and edition must match — 1st Edition, Shadowless, 4th print and Unlimited are priced as separate cards, as are reverse holos and regional printings.
Outliers scrubbed. Digby drops damaged copies, lots, proxies, mislabelled graded sales and single freak results before the weighted comp is calculated.
Condition-anchored. Vintage raw cards are anchored to realistic played grades rather than pretending every copy is Near Mint; modern cards anchor to NM.
Community-verified. Vendors and collectors confirm prices in the Price Trainer, and that consensus nudges the headline comp on cards where sales are sparse.
Uncertainty is shown, not hidden. When there is not enough comparable evidence, COMPED says so and shows a range with the sale count behind it.

Fast on singles, thorough when you ask

Graded prices are the slowest data to gather, so single-card checks do not wait on them. Comp the raw card instantly, then load verified slab prices with one tap when the grading question actually matters.

Keep reading

How to comp a card

The five-step process behind every number here.

UK prices in GBP

Why UK sold data beats a converted US figure.

Graded slab comps

PSA, CGC, ACE and TAG from verified sales.

How we differ

COMPED vs Collectr, PriceCharting and marketplace prices.

Common questions

Is the COMPED price checker free?: Yes. Searching cards, seeing the weighted comp, the sold evidence behind it and the trend history costs nothing and needs no card details.
Do I need to scan the card?: No. You can type the name and pick the exact printing. Scanning exists as a shortcut for bulk work, not as a requirement for a price check.
Does it cover sealed product and graded slabs?: Yes — search modes cover singles, sealed product and slabs, with graded prices loaded on demand so single-card checks stay fast.
Why is a card sometimes shown as a range?: Because the honest answer is a range when only a few comparable sales exist. COMPED shows the range and the number of sales behind it instead of inventing a precise figure.
Why does the price checker sometimes refuse to give a number?: If no comparable sold listing survives the filters, COMPED says so. Showing an unbacked figure is how valuations drift, so a card with no usable evidence is reported as unpriced with the closest evidence listed instead.
Why are vintage cards harder to price check than modern ones?: Modern cards sell constantly; vintage cards do not, and their value splits across editions and conditions. Fewer sales spread across more variants means a wider, slower-moving range — which is the accurate answer, not a shortcoming.
Why doesn't the graded price match the single price?: Because they are separate markets. Graded comps come from sales of that exact grader and grade, which is why they load on demand and are labelled separately from the raw single.