Every figure below is computed from our own dataset of 59,757 Pokémon cards across 391 sets, not scraped from another price guide. Free to cite with a link.
The mean price of a Pokémon card in our dataset is $48.65. The median is $2.70, about 18x lower. Both numbers are correct, and only one of them describes the card you just pulled.
That gap is the whole shape of the hobby. A few hundred chase cards carry enough value to drag the average into the tens of dollars, while most of the printed population sits close to bulk.Any headline claiming the “average” card is worth $48.65 is quoting the mean of a distribution that has no meaningful middle.
| Raw price | Cards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $100 or more | 2,101 | 3.9% |
| $1,000 or more | 172 | 0.32% |
| Priced cards in the dataset | 53,265 | 100% |
Across the 19,339 cards where we hold both a raw price and a PSA 10 price, the median PSA 10 sells for 15.6x the ungraded card, at a median of $171.15.
The multiple is the number worth internalising, because grading costs are flat while the premium is proportional. A 15.6x multiple on a $2.70 card is still under a dollar of upside. The premium only pays on cards that already carry value, which is the opposite of how most submission decisions get made.
PSA has graded 11,230,365 Pokémon cards to a 10 across the 14,133 cards in our set with population data, and we hold real graded sales history for 22,924 cards.
| Card | Raw price |
|---|---|
| Illustrator Pikachu | $1,079,036 |
| No. 1 Trainer: Champion Road Mega Battle | $103,700 |
| Master's Scroll [Holo] #55/L-P | $57,355 |
| Mew Ex #3/SV-P | $12,860 |
| Victory Ring [Spring Battle Road] | $9,702 |
| Voltorb [Cosmos Professor Program] #100 | $8,500 |
| Mew Ex [Ultra Ball League] #151 | $7,760 |
| Spikey-Eared Pichu [Televi-Kun Winner] | $7,500 |
| Spikey-Eared Pichu [2nd Grade Winner] | $7,499 |
| Tropical Wind [Tropical Mega Battle] | $6,451 |
Journalists and creators are welcome to use any statistic on this page with attribution and a link to banktcg.com/pokemon-card-statistics. If you need a figure we haven't published, whether a specific set, era or grade, get in touch and we'll run it.