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Quant market terminal

Chart your favorite cards.

Live order books, sales prints and quant signals for the Pokémon card market. Free.

The Cardboard Alpha scanner pricing a card

The Cardboard Alpha app

Scan any card.
Price as fast as 37 milliseconds.

  • Point your camera at a card: name, set and live price, as fast as 37 milliseconds
  • Price alerts on your phone the moment a deal lists
  • Your whole collection and what it is worth, in your pocket
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Live comping TERMINAL

Price every card on a live stream show.

  • Identifies the card on screen and prices it in near mint, LP, MP, HP and damaged
  • PSA and CGC prices with population, rarity and release date beside it
  • Every sold lot stamped against market, so you see a good deal or an overpay at a glance
A live stream: a seller holds a card up to the camera

Mew ex#053Holo

SVP Black Star Promos

PromoMar 2023 · 3 yrs

$64.42

Holo · Raw NM

LP
$58.97
MP
$59.90
HP
$56.11
DMG
$54.46
PSA 10$780PSA 9$103PSA 8$70.00CGC 9$74.99

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Charizard V#SWSH260

SWSH Black Star Promos

Promo

$44.93

SWSH260 · Raw NM

LP
—
MP
—
HP
—
DMG
—
PSA 10$605PSA 9$69.99PSA 8$46.00CGC 9$53.50CGC 8$51.00

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Mew ex: matched live by our recognizer. Charizard V: its top pick, confirmed by hand. Prices as read Oct 23, 2026.

Alpha Scan Dock

Set it down. Scan all night.

  • Lay your phone on the dock and slide cards under the camera, hands free, one after another
  • Each card is named and priced as it passes, ready for your collection or your listings
  • The dock itself is in our shop, printed to order with the bridge in the colour you pick
The Alpha Scan Dock: a white box with a card ramp inside, a card bin at the low end and a bridge over the ramp
The Cardboard Alpha scanner running on the Alpha Scan Dock

Fire deals

Buy under market. Hear about it first.

  • Live listings at least 10% under fair value, priced delivered with shipping
  • Ring the bell on any card and the deal reaches you by push, email or text
  • Tap Buy to go straight to the listing, or open the card to check it first

Master sets

Chase the whole set. See exactly what is left.

  • Every card and variant in the set, with what you own lit up and what you are missing dimmed
  • See what finishing the set costs, priced card by card off the live market
  • Filter to the missing cards and buy each one straight from its tile

AI Pre-Grade

Know the grade before you pay for it.

  • Photograph a raw card and get its centering, corners and edges measured
  • The most likely grade at PSA, CGC, BGS and TAG, with the odds of each
  • Find out which cards are worth sending in before you pay a grading fee

Grading opportunity

Find the cards worth grading.

  • Every popular card ranked by what a PSA 10 sells for against the raw copy
  • Gem rate from the real graded population, the fee and the odds of each grade
  • The expected result after the fee, so you only send in cards that pay

Deep card analytics

Every card, read like a stock.

  • Fair value as a blend of real sales and the live ask book, quoted delivered with shipping, with its band
  • Market safety, flow and absorption: what it costs to move the price and who is buying
  • Gem rate and grading ROI by grader, and scarcity down to how many packs it takes to pull one

Pull rates

Know your odds before you rip.

  • Every set’s hit tiers with the odds of pulling one, measured where a study exists
  • The cards in each tier and what they sell for, most valuable first
  • What the whole hit slot is worth, so you can price a pack before you open it

Portfolio

Watch your collection grow.

  • Your whole collection priced every day off the live market, raw and graded
  • A value chart from day one, with the week, month or year you pick
  • Cost basis, profit and loss, and every sale moved into cash, never lost

Every collection, combined

$19,609

▲ +$19,346 since Oct 1, 2026

$19,709.66$262.78
Oct 1, 2026Oct 23, 2026

Every collection on Cardboard Alpha added together, valued every day from Oct 1, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. Most of the rise is new collections and cards added: 2 collections and 156 cards on Oct 1, 13 and 1,555 by Oct 23.

Trade tool

See both sides. Never make a bad trade again.

  • Put what you give on one side and what you get on the other, every card priced live
  • A plain verdict: even, in your favour, or in theirs, and by how much
  • The cash that balances it, worked out for you before you shake on it

Friends

Collect with your friends.

  • Find the friends already collecting from your contacts, and see each other’s collections
  • A friends leaderboard: points for every check-in, scan, card added and trade
  • Keep a daily streak going and climb past the friend just above you

Friends leaderboardPoints

  1. qamone7 daily check-ins · 7 scans183
  2. 2Collector5 daily check-ins · 2 cards added3-day streak106

A real friends board from the app, Oct 23, 2026: our two test accounts, ranked by points as the app ranks them.

Competitive meta

Play the meta. Price the meta.

  • Every Standard deck’s share of the field from real tournament decklists, and how it moved this month
  • Win rates, and what each deck costs to build at today’s prices
  • The cards the meta runs on, and what their prices did as play rose and fell

New · Cardboard Alpha gear

Alpha Loader.
Armour for your best pulls.

A top loader guard with a slide lock for a standard top loader. Nine colours, $4.99 each.

  • Buy 8, get 2 free
  • Free US shipping over $49.99
Shop the Alpha Loader
Shop the Alpha Loader: top loader guards in five colours

Track your own cards. Free.