Do not bother under this

That is a floor, not a recommendation. A card over it is worth checking; it is not automatically worth sending. Condition, the grade it would actually land, and what a slabbed copy really sells for all still decide it, which is what the calculator is for.

The lowest fee does not always give the lowest floor. Return shipping is banded by declared value and a dearer tier can insure more, so the ranking below is not the ranking on a rate card.

Rates as published on September 17, 2026, and checked every week. Companies change them without much notice, so check the rate card before you post anything.

Postage to the grading company and postage back are the same whether the package holds one card or fifty, so a single card carries all of it alone. That one fact moves the floor more than anything else on this page.

• One card on its own$187CGC Economy
• 5 cards in one package$94CGC Economy
• 10 cards in one package$83CGC Economy
• 20 cards in one package$77CGC Economy
• 50 cards in one package$63CGC Bulk

Sending one card alone means the card has to be worth roughly 2.4 times as much before grading pays at all. If you have more than one card you are wondering about, the box is the thing to plan, not the card.

Plan a whole box

A vintage card carries a far bigger premium at a ten than a new one does, so it clears the same fee at a much lower price. Sports and games do not share a timeline either: 1991 is early for a game and the deep end of the junk wax glut for baseball, where a slab adds the price of the plastic and very little else.

• Ultramodern game card, 2023$77CGC Economy
• Modern game card, 2010$36CGC Economy
• Vintage game card, 1998$8CGC Economy
• Modern sports card, 2005$36CGC Economy
• Junk wax sports card, 1991$174CGC Economy
• Vintage sports card, 1968$8CGC Economy

Every row is the cheapest floor across all 19 open tiers for that kind of card, on the same sharp condition and the same 20 card batch. The only thing changing between them is what the card is.

A floor is only as honest as what it is built on, so here is all of it:

• A sharp card. Well centered, sharp corners and edges, clean surface, no creases or print lines. Not claimed to be perfect, because almost nobody’s card is.
• Twenty in the box. Postage is shared across the batch. Send one card on its own and the floor roughly doubles.
• Era estimates, not sold prices. The premium at each grade is this app’s own estimate. Real sold comps move the floor, usually downward on a card people actually want.
• Selling costs included. A marketplace fee and postage to the buyer come out of both sides, because a slab you cannot sell has not paid for itself.

Change any of those and the number changes, which is the point of the calculator rather than a weakness of the floor. The floor tells you what not to bother looking up. The calculator tells you what to do about the ones that clear it.

Check a card that clears it