SlabIndex vs PriceCharting
The short version: PriceCharting is a price guide, and a good one — we use its guide as one of our own sources and say so on every card it fills. SlabIndex starts where a price guide stops. It takes the raw price and the slab price and answers the question behind them: is this card worth buying raw and sending in, after the fee, and what are the odds of a gem? Then it rates the card, tracks the call, and shows you how those calls did.
| Feature | PriceCharting | SlabIndex |
|---|---|---|
| Raw (ungraded) prices | Yes — its own price guide | Yes — TCGplayer market price, refreshed nightly |
| Graded prices (PSA, BGS, CGC) | Yes — PSA 10, grade 9/9.5, BGS 10 per card | Yes — the full ladder per grader, refreshed nightly, with PriceCharting's levels as a fallback |
| Population reports | Yes — PSA and CGC counts on product pages | Yes — with the gem rate (PSA 10 share) computed for you |
| Should you grade it? (return after fees) | No | Yes — expected value after the real PSA tier fee and postage, per card, with the odds from its population |
| Buy / Sell ratings and signals | No | Yes — a 0–100 score per card and per slab, with every factor shown |
| Public track record | No | Yes — every call logged with entry price and date, marked to market, wins and losses both shown |
| Price history | Monthly levels, several years back | Daily readings since August 2026, plus PriceCharting's monthly levels behind them |
| Price alerts and a weekly digest | No | Yes — email alerts on the cards and slabs you hold |
| Portfolio | Collection tracker | Portfolio priced by printing and grade, with a Smart Analysis of the whole |
| Japanese Pokémon | Yes | Yes — 20,000 cards, PSA population from PriceCharting where Scrydex has none |
| One Piece and Riftbound | Yes | Yes — graded ladders where a slab market exists |
| Cost | Free, ad-supported, with paid extras | Free account; Premium $9.99/month, Pro $19.99/month, 7-day trial |
As of September 2026, from each site's public pages. PriceCharting is a trademark of its owner; it is named here for comparison only.
When PriceCharting is the right tool
You want a quick number for a card, a monthly chart reaching back years, or a collection tally, and you are happy to do the grading maths yourself. It covers video games and more besides cards, and it is free to read.
When SlabIndex is
You are deciding what to grade, what to buy raw because the slab is worth more than the fee, or what to sell — and you want the model to have done the arithmetic on all 33,543 cards with a graded market, not just the one you looked up. You want to be told when a card you hold changes, and you want to see whether the ratings have been right before you trust one.
What we take from PriceCharting
Graded price levels and population counts for cards no other source covers — Japanese Pokémon population reports, One Piece and Riftbound slab prices — and monthly history behind cards that lack daily readings. Where a figure on SlabIndex came from PriceCharting, the card page says so.
See it on a card you know
Search any card, open its page, and compare the raw price, the PSA 10 price and the grading return after fees with what the price guide shows. The best grading opportunities in each game are public.
Not investment advice. Every rating, signal and pick here is the output of a model over price history and population data. Trading cards are illiquid and easily moved by a single listing; treat this as a starting point for your own research, never as a reason to skip it.