card-prices.com

What it is

Card Prices is a price lookup and comparison tool for the trading card market. It currently focuses on English Pokémon TCG, with plans to expand into the Japanese market, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, and more. It aggregates pricing data from TCGplayer and eBay and presents it in a unified comparison interface. Its positioning is as an independent, transparent price reference tool—not a marketplace, grading service, or commission-based platform.

Core features and technology

Its core features include searching cards by name, set, or number, and comparing TCGplayer and eBay data such as market price, lowest listing, recent sales, and shipping costs. The filtering options are fairly granular, covering foil types such as Holo, Reverse, and Normal; print versions such as 1st Edition/Unlimited; conditions from NM to Damaged; and language filters. The platform also states that it uses machine learning for product matching, variant recognition, price normalization, and anomaly checks, and emphasizes that it does not display data it cannot verify.

Pricing and accounts

The site clearly states that its core pricing data and comparison tools are free and will remain free, with no account required, no paywall, and no data access threshold. In the future, it may introduce optional paid tiers for advanced collection tracking, master set management, scanning apps, and similar features. It currently accepts Buy Me a Coffee donations to support infrastructure and data access. Collection features are under development; the page mentions device sync, total portfolio value statistics, folder organization, CSV export, and shows Firestore live, but these should not yet be considered mature features.

Pros and cons

The main advantages are that it is free, easy to get started with, and compares prices side by side across two major marketplaces, making it useful for collectors and vendors who need quick reference pricing. Its fine-grained filters are particularly important in the card market. The drawbacks are that current coverage is still mainly focused on English Pokémon cards, while other games and languages are more roadmap items than current strengths. There is no public API, making it difficult for developers or third-party systems to integrate directly. It also does not disclose enterprise-software capabilities such as team permissions, audits, SLA, security compliance certifications, or similar controls.

Who it is for and access from China

It is best suited to individual collectors, secondary-market sellers, card show vendors, and research-oriented users who need to verify prices. It does not look like a mature enterprise SaaS product. The available text does not mention access conditions from China. For payments, it only mentions Buy Me a Coffee donations. Users in China may still need to cross-check against local pricing sources such as Xianyu, Taobao, and community transaction prices.