All Pokémon eras
Base Set through current Scarlet & Violet. WOTC vintage, e-Reader, EX, Diamond & Pearl, Sword & Shield — every era supported.
Upload a photo of any Pokémon card — Base Set Charizard or Scarlet & Violet ex — and SnapGrade's AI returns a predicted PSA grade in seconds with full sub-grade breakdown. 89% match within ±0.5 of PSA across 218 verified returns.
From your 1st Edition Base holos to your modern alt-arts — SnapGrade is trained on every major Pokémon set, including Japanese exclusives.
Base Set through current Scarlet & Violet. WOTC vintage, e-Reader, EX, Diamond & Pearl, Sword & Shield — every era supported.
Reverse holos, alt arts, rainbow rares, gold cards, full arts, and trainer gallery treatments — handled accurately.
Centering · corners · edges · surface — see exactly which sub-grade is dragging your card down before you submit.
Pokémon Japan releases including Vstar Universe, 151, Crimson Haze and modern promos are fully supported.
When confidence falls below 70%, your credit refunds automatically. You only pay when we'll stand behind the grade.
Each report includes a market value range for the predicted PSA grade — so you can decide if submission ROI makes sense.
AI Pokémon card grading uses computer vision to predict the PSA grade your Pokémon card will receive — analyzing centering, corners, edges, and surface separately, then combining them into an overall grade with per-aspect confidence. SnapGradeAI runs this analysis in under 6 seconds and matches PSA's final grade within ±0.5 in 89% of 218 verified Pokémon submissions.
SnapGrade runs four specialist computer-vision models against your card — one per PSA grading axis. Each model is trained against thousands of cards with verified PSA returns, so the prediction is calibrated to PSA's scale, not a generic "condition score."
The model measures left/right and top/bottom border widths with sub-pixel precision, flags off-center cards (the most common reason a card grades 8 instead of 10), and shows you the exact ratios in your report.
We zoom into each of the four corners and detect sharpness loss, whitening, and rounding. Corner damage is the #2 reason Pokémon cards drop a grade, and it's often invisible without magnification.
Edge whitening and micro-chips along the card's perimeter are graded against the SnapGrade reference library of clean vs. flawed edges. Vintage Pokémon cards in particular often hide edge wear at normal viewing distance.
Specialized model variants handle holo Pokémon cards (different surface signature than non-holo), reverse holos, and modern alt-arts. Print lines, scratches, and finish irregularities all get caught.
PSA submissions cost $79.99–$149 per card in 2026 — PSA paused its cheaper Value tiers in June 2026, so Regular ($79.99) is the entry point (see our Pokémon grading cost breakdown and PSA grading cost calculator). Most collectors send 20+ cards per batch — that's easily a four-figure bet on cards that may come back as 7s or 8s. SnapGrade lets you screen the batch first and only send the cards that have a real shot at a 9 or 10.
Across 412 verified PSA returns, our prediction matched within ±0.5 of the final grade 87% of the time, and within ±1.0 96% of the time. We publish every miss so you can see how the model performs on cards like yours.
Upload front and back. SnapGrade runs lighting/focus checks, then predicts a PSA grade with per-aspect confidence. If the predicted grade is 9 or 10 with high confidence, send it. If it's an 8 with weak corners, you just saved a $79.99 mistake. Need a deeper decision framework? See is Pokémon card grading worth it? and which Pokémon cards are worth grading.
The one decision every Pokémon collector faces is whether a raw card is worth a PSA slot. Here is what each path actually costs in 2026, now that PSA's Value tiers are paused and Regular starts at $79.99.
| Submit blind to PSA | Pre-grade with SnapGrade first | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to learn the grade | $79.99+ per card | $1–$2 per card |
| Time to an answer | 40–50 business days | ~6 seconds |
| If it's a 9, not a 10 | PSA fee spent on a card that won't 10 | Skip it — spend the fee only on real 10 candidates |
| Shipping risk | Card leaves your hands for weeks | None — it stays with you |
| Which cards you submit | All of them, and hope | Only the predicted 9s and 10s |
Every grade returns an overall PSA prediction plus a per-axis breakdown and a market-value range, so you can decide in one glance whether to slab it. A typical Charizard holo report:
| Aspect | Sub-grade | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Centering | 9.5 | Front 55/45, back 60/40 — inside PSA 10 tolerance |
| Corners | 9 | Faint whitening on one back corner under magnification |
| Edges | 10 | Clean — no chipping along the perimeter |
| Surface | 8.5 | One faint print line through the holo caps the grade |
| Overall prediction | PSA 9 | Worth submitting — surface is the ceiling, not a 10 |
Several AI graders exist — CardMintAI, Ludex, TCGrader and others. SnapGrade's edge for Pokémon specifically is published accuracy: 89% within ±0.5 of PSA across 218 verified Pokémon returns, with every miss documented. For a full, honest comparison of the options, see our roundup of the best AI Pokémon card grading apps of 2026.
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