Grade, regrade or sell your slab?
You pulled a graded card. Take the app's sell-back, sell it as it is, or pay a grader for a second look. Tap a chance to see which exit leaves the most.
By Alexander Korsager · Checked 7 October 2026 · We earn nothing from any app on this site
- $400.01
- regrade, on average
- $360
- the app's sell-back
Work out your slab
It opens on example numbers, not prices for any card. Type what your slab sells for at its grade and one grade up, then set your own chance.
- Arena Club sell-back$36090% of $400, today
- Sell it as it is$355$400 less fee and postage
- Regrade at PSAMost$400.01$265.01 if it stays, $805.01 if it goes up
- 17.6%
- Break-even chance
- $823
- Needed a grade up, at 25%
- 90 to 100
- business days away
Where the regrade starts to pay
- Regrade, on average
- Sell as it is
- Sell-back
- Your 25%
Left to right is the chance of a higher grade; up is money in hand. Below 17.6%, the regrade loses to the sell-back.
The app and your costs
Arena Club's rate in writing is 90% after any selling fee; the app sets the value it applies it to, so type the real offer if it differs. Its shipping charge is not one published figure, so it starts at $0. Postage and the marketplace fee are starting points we chose, not any company's prices.
Not sure the sell-back offer is a fair one? The offer checker sets it against a market price. Keep, sell or ship prices the exits when grading is off the table.
What each grader charges
Read on each grader's own price page on 7 October 2026. A fee for one card, the value the tier covers and the wait the grader estimates.
The example slab, $1,000 a grade up, at each grader
- PSA$59.9990 to 100 business days
- CGC$2090 working days
- SGC$5040+ business days
- BGSNot confirmed. Beckett's price page redirected to a notice dated 2 October 2026 saying its platforms had been taken offline. No fee could be read.
- TAGNot confirmed. TAG's pricing page opened, but its fee table did not load and the page text carries no prices.
| Grader and tier | Fee | Covers up to | Wait |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Standard | $59.99 | $1,000 | 90 to 100business days |
| PSA Priority | $79.99 | $1,500 | 70 to 80business days |
| PSA Express | $199 | $2,500 | 20 to 30business days |
| PSA Super Express | $349 | $5,000 | 10 to 15business days |
| PSA Premier | $599 | $10,000 | 7 to 10business days |
| CGC Bulk25-card minimum | $17 | $500 | 150working days |
| CGC Economy | $20 | $1,000 | 90working days |
| CGC Standard | $55 | $3,000 | 10working days |
| CGC Express | $100 | $10,000 | 5working days |
| CGC WalkThrough | $300 | $100,000 | 2working days |
| SGC Standard | $50 | $1,500 | 40+business days |
| SGC Standard | $85 | $3,500 | 40+business days |
| SGC Expedited | $150 | $3,500 | 2 to 3business days |
| SGC Expedited | $250 | $7,500 | 2 to 3business days |
| SGC Expedited | $500 | $20,000 | 2 to 3business days |
| SGC Expedited | $1,000 | $50,000 | 2 to 3business days |
| SGC Expedited | $2,000 | $100,000 | 2 to 3business days |
| BGS | Not confirmed. What the page showed | ||
| TAG | Not confirmed. What the page showed | ||
These move. PSA's page says its cheaper Value services are temporarily paused, and Beckett's price list was offline on the day we read. The selling fee comparer covers the marketplace side.
If the grade does not go up
What each grader's own page says comes back, and what it charges, when a slab is sent in for more.
- PSA
Crossover
Grade is protected- Takes
- A card in another company's holder
- If it misses
- Returned in its original holder if it misses the minimum grade you set
- Fee
- The grading price, charged whatever the result
- PSA
Review of its own slab
Grade is protected- Takes
- A card in its current PSA holder
- If it misses
- Keeps its label and grade if it does not upgrade
- Fee
- No price on the Review page
- CGC Cards
Crossover
Grade is protected- Takes
- A card in a PSA, Beckett or SGC holder
- If it misses
- Returned in its original holder unless you ask to cross at any grade
- Fee
- According to tier; the full fee applies if it does not cross
- CGC Cards
Review of its own slab
No protection stated- Takes
- A CGC slab sent for regrading
- If it misses
- Not guaranteed the same grade: it can come back lower
- Fee
- No separate regrade price on the fee chart
- SGC
Crossover
No protection stated- Takes
- A card in another company's holder
- If it misses
- The page mentions a minimum grade and does not say what comes back
- Fee
- Same price list as raw card grading
- SGC
Review of its own slab
No protection stated- Takes
- An SGC slab sent for review
- If it misses
- Not stated on the price page
- Fee
- Same price list as raw card grading
The tool assumes a miss leaves the slab at the grade it has, which is what a review at PSA or a crossover with a minimum grade promises. Cracking a slab open and sending the card in raw has no such floor, and the tool does not price it.
How the sum works
Worked on the example: $400 now, $1,000 a grade up, a 25% chance, PSA Standard.
Sell it as it is
$400 − 10% fee − $5 postage$355Arena Club's rate in writing would pay $360 today, with no listing to write.Regrade, on average
25% of $805.01 + 75% of $265.01$400.01Both outcomes are after the $59.99 fee and $30 postage to the grader and back.Break-even chance
($89.99 + $5) ÷ ($600 × 0.9)17.6%What trying costs, plus whatever the best other exit pays over a sale, divided by the gain you keep if the grade goes up.What this cannot tell you
Three inputs decide the answer, and no grader or app publishes any of them for your card.
The chance of a bump
Your estimateNo grader publishes the odds that a given slab regrades higher. Move the slider and watch how soon the answer flips.Prices at each grade
Your sold pricesWe hold no graded-card prices. Look up recent sales of the card at both grades and type the middle of them.Grader fees
3 of 5 confirmedBGS and TAG could not be read on 7 October 2026: type a quoted fee for those.17 of 27 apps have a sell-back rate in writing; each one's rate, fee and deadline are on the cash-out page. A sell-back window can close long before a slab comes back from a grader.
Questions people ask
Is it worth regrading a slab I pulled?
Only if your chance of a higher grade clears the break-even. On the example here, $400 now and $1,000 a grade up, that is 17.6%. Nobody publishes that chance for your card, so the estimate is yours.
What is a crossover?
Sending a card in one grader's holder to another grader. PSA and CGC both say they look at it in its holder and only move it if it makes the grade: a minimum you set at PSA, its current grade or better at CGC. Both charge the full fee if it does not.
Can a regrade come back lower?
It depends on the service. PSA says a card sent for Review keeps its label and grade if it does not upgrade. CGC says a card sent for regrading is not guaranteed the same grade. A crossover with a minimum grade comes back in its old holder.
Why does the fee rise with the card's value?
Each tier covers cards up to a stated value, so a dearer card needs a dearer tier. The tool reads the cap against the value a grade higher and picks the cheapest tier that covers it. The cheapest for one card on 7 October 2026 was CGC Cards Economy, $20.
Sources44
- PSA: grading fees, value caps and turnaround psacard.com
- CGC Cards: grading fees, value caps and turnaround cgccards.com
- SGC: grading fees, value caps and turnaround gosgc.com
- Beckett (BGS): the price page as found, with no fee to read maintenance.beckett.com
- TAG Grading: the price page as found, with no fee to read taggrading.com
- PSA: crossover psacard.com
- PSA: review of its own slabs psacard.com
- Arena Club: sell-back rate info.arenaclub.com
- Arena Club: selling fee arenaclubsupport.zendesk.com
- Arena Club: shipping fee arenaclubsupport.zendesk.com
- Lastpack: sell-back rate support.lastpack.com
- Lastpack: shipping fee support.lastpack.com
- Phygitals: sell-back rate docs.phygitals.com
- Phygitals: shipping fee docs.phygitals.com
- Repackz: sell-back rate collectibles.helpscoutdocs.com
- Repackz: shipping fee collectibles.helpscoutdocs.com
- Tilt Rips: sell-back rate tiltrips.com
- Courtyard: shipping fee help.courtyard.io
- Ripit: shipping fee support.ripit.co
- RipRip.io: sell-back rate riprip.io
- rip.fun: sell-back rate rip.fun
- rip.fun: shipping fee docs.rip.fun
- Collector Crypt: sell-back rate docs.collectorcrypt.com
- Collector Crypt: shipping fee collectorcrypt.com
- MNSTR: sell-back rate mnstr.xyz
- MNSTR: shipping fee mnstr.xyz
- Rips by Triumph: sell-back rate docs.triumpharcade.com
- Slabz: shipping fee slabz.com
- BOXED.GG: sell-back rate helpdesk.boxed.gg
- BOXED.GG: shipping fee boxed.gg
- Stadium Vault: sell-back rate stadium-vault.gitbook.io
- Underdog Rips: sell-back rate help.underdogsports.com
- Fanatics Instant Rips: sell-back rate support.fanaticscollect.com
- Fanatics Instant Rips: selling fee about.fanatics.live
- Fanatics Instant Rips: shipping fee support.fanaticscollect.com
- Beezie: shipping fee docs.beezie.com
- DOPA: sell-back rate dopa-global.com
- DOPA: shipping fee support.dopa-global.com
- Packs.com: sell-back rate packs.com
- Packs.com: selling fee help.packs.com
- Packs.com: shipping fee help.packs.com
- GameStop Power Packs: shipping fee web.archive.org
- Gemint: sell-back rate gemint.io
- ripz.gg: shipping fee ripz.gg
Every figure was read on public pages between 6 October 2026 and 7 October 2026. Nothing here has been tested with money yet. Grader fees were read on 7 October 2026 and change often. Card values and the chance of a higher grade are the reader's own. How apps are scored is on the rating method page.