Fee sources

Every fee in the calculator is copied from a public page and stored in data/graders.json. Last checked October 2, 2026. If a price was not on the page, the file leaves it blank and the site says “not published.”

PSA

Grading fees and turnaround:psacard.com/services/tradingcardgrading/grading. Value-tier pause, effective June 2, 2026:PSA’s May 28, 2026 article. US return shipping:psacard.com/info/postage(page says last updated August 29, 2025).

Prices are the public per-card fees on PSA's trading-card grading page. Turnaround times are estimates and are not guaranteed. PSA's page says the clock does not start until the order is entered into the grading system.

PSA card tiers checked 2026-10-02. Source:https://www.psacard.com/services/tradingcardgrading/grading
Tier	Fee	Value covered	Turnaround	Status
Value Bulk	Paused — no current price	Up to $500.00	Not published	Paused
Value	Paused — no current price	Up to $500.00	Not published	Paused
Value Plus	Paused — no current price	No published cap	Not published	Paused
Value Max	Paused — no current price	No published cap	Not published	Paused
Standard	$59.99/card	Up to $1,000.00	90–100 business days	Open
Priority	$79.99/card	Up to $1,500.00	70–80 business days	Open
Express	$199.00/card	Up to $2,500.00	20–30 business days	Open
Super Express	$349.00/card	Up to $5,000.00	10–15 business days	Open
Premier	$599.00/card	Up to $10,000.00	7–10 business days	Open
Premium 1	$999.00/card	Up to $25,000.00	5–7 business days	Open
Premium 2	$1,999.00/card	Up to $50,000.00	5–7 business days	Open
Premium 3	$2,999.00/card	Up to $100,000.00	5–7 business days	Open
Premium 5	$4,999.00/card	Up to $250,000.00	5–7 business days	Open
Premium 10	$9,999+/card	$250,000.01 and up	5–7 business days	Open

CGC

Grading fees:cgccards.com services and fees. Domestic return shipping is the table posted February 15, 2021, still linked fromCGC’s shipping FAQ. It is shown with that date. It is not a 2026 rate card.

US direct submission prices for Collector members, from CGC Cards' services and fees page. Associate and Premium members are listed as saving 10% on grading, and Elite members 20%. Those discounts are not applied here. Turnaround is an estimate of working days and is not guaranteed. Bulk allows a mix of card types and requires 25 cards.

CGC card tiers checked 2026-10-02. Source:https://www.cgccards.com/submit/services-fees/cgc-grading/
Tier	Fee	Value covered	Turnaround	Status
Bulk25-card minimum	$17.00/card	Up to $500.00	150 working days	Open
Economy	$20.00/card	Up to $1,000.00	90 working days	Open
Standard	$55.00/card	Up to $3,000.00	10 working days	Open
Express	$100.00/card	Up to $10,000.00	5 working days	Open
WalkThrough	$300.00/card	Up to $100,000.00	2 working days	Open
Unlimited Value	$300 + 1% of value	No published cap	2 working days	Open
Jumbo Card	$20.00/card	No published cap	120 working days	Open
TCG, sports and non-sports coin	$20.00/card	No published cap	120 working days	Open

TAG

Service list dated September 30, 2026:TAG help center. Pricing page, which did not expose the dollar amounts in text on the day this file was checked:taggrading.com/pages/pricing.

Dollar prices, turnaround, and insurance caps below are from TAG's help article “What are TAG's Available Grading Services?”, which says the list is current as of September 30, 2026, and points at taggrading.com/pages/pricing. The pricing page itself did not print the dollar amounts in a way that could be copied on October 2, 2026. Base has no dollar amount in that article. TAG describes the dollar caps as built-in insurance, not explicitly as a maximum you are allowed to declare. This tool will not pick a tier whose published insurance cap is below the match value.

TAG card tiers checked 2026-10-02. Source:https://taggrading.com/pages/pricing
Tier	Fee	Value covered	Turnaround	Status
Base	Not published	Up to $500.00	60 business days	Price not published
Standard	$59.95/card	Up to $1,000.00	45 business days	Open
Priority	$79.95/card	Up to $1,500.00	30 business days	Open
Express	$149.95/card	Up to $2,500.00	10 business days	Open
Premier	$299.95/card	Up to $5,000.00	3–5 business days	Open

Not verified, so not used as a price

PSA Value, Value Bulk, Value Plus, and Value Max fees. All four were paused for new submissions on June 2, 2026, according to PSA's May 28, 2026 article. On October 2, 2026 the grading page showed Value Bulk and Value as unavailable, with max insured value $500, and did not print a fee. Value Plus and Value Max were not on that page. February 2026 prices are not copied in as current. Source
TAG Base price. The September 30, 2026 help article describes Base (and says “BASIC Orders”) at 60 business days with insurance capped at $500, but it never states a dollar price. TAG marketing says grading starts at $39.95. That starting price is not tied to Base in the help article, so it is not used. Source
TAG return shipping. No public return-shipping table was found on the pricing page or the services help article. Insurance up to the tier cap is described as included in the grading fee. Source
Inbound shipping for PSA, CGC, and TAG. You pay a carrier to mail cards to the grader. None of the three publishes a single flat inbound price. Those costs are left out of every total. Source
CGC return shipping as a 2026 rate. The domestic table used here was posted February 15, 2021. CGC's current shipping FAQ still points to a fee schedule and says rates can change. The January 2026 fee update did not reprint this matrix. The dollar amounts are shown with the 2021 date, not as a freshly confirmed 2026 quote. Source
PSA 20+ return shipping as a single total. The postage chart prints “+$0.39 per item” or “+$0.69 per item” for 20 or more cards. This tool adds that amount for each card past 19 on top of the 10–19 price. That is a reading of the cell, and the reading is labeled in the result. Source
Whether TAG insurance caps block a submission. TAG calls the amounts insurance caps. The help article does not say a more valuable card is refused at a lower tier. This tool still requires the cap to cover the match value so the estimate is not under-insured in silence. Source
A conflicting PSA Express price. The grading page checked October 2, 2026 lists Express at $199, max insured $2,500, 20–30 business days. A search snippet of the submission center showed $149 for a 20–30 day service. The grading page is the source used. $149 is not in the fee file. Source
Marketplace selling fees and membership discounts. eBay and TCGplayer selling fees are not included. CGC's 10% and 20% member discounts are not included. The grade a card will actually receive is your guess, not a prediction. Source

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