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What Is CardHedge?

CardHedge is a price guide and portfolio-tracking platform for sports and trading cards -- a web app and mobile app (built by Card Hedge LLC, at cardhedger.com) that shows price history and estimated values across grading companies, then lets a collector track a whole collection's value over time. It doesn't process sales; it's a research and tracking layer on top of data pulled from elsewhere.

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The short answer

CardHedge (branded Card Hedge, at cardhedger.com) is a price guide covering millions of sports, Pokemon, and other trading cards, with pricing broken out by grading company and grade -- PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC, TAG, and raw. On top of the price guide it adds a portfolio tracker for logging an entire collection and watching its value move, plus an AI chat feature for asking questions about a card or a market trend. Like GoCollect and Card Ladder, it's a price guide and tracking tool, not a place to buy or sell a card.

What CardHedge actually offers

  • A large, grade-split price guide— the database spans millions of cards across baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and non-sports categories like Pokemon, with pricing shown separately for each grading company and grade rather than one blended number.
  • Portfolio tracking— a collector can log cards into a personal collection, and CardHedge rolls those up into a dashboard showing total value and how it's moved, broken down by sport, set, or year.
  • Market index and trend charts— beyond a single card's price, CardHedge surfaces broader market-trend views and periodic AI-written market commentary, the same general idea as Card Ladder's index but built into a price-guide product rather than sold as a standalone index.
  • Camera scan and mobile apps— native iOS and Android apps (launched 2025) add camera-based card identification on top of the web version's search, syncing a scanned card straight into the price guide and portfolio.
  • Free tier plus a paid Platinum plan— core search and price history are free; a Platinum subscription unlocks deeper history, unlimited portfolio tracking, and the AI chat features.

What it isn't

CardHedge doesn't grade cards, hold inventory, or process a purchase or sale -- there's no checkout, consignment, or shipping involved anywhere on the platform. Its prices are estimates built from tracked market data, not a guarantee of what a specific copy of a card will actually fetch; condition, eye appeal, and a live buyer still decide the real sale price. Like any price guide, the number is only as current and complete as the sales data feeding it.

How CardHedge differs from Card Ladder, GoCollect, Mavin, and 130Point

  • vs. Card Ladder — both pair a price guide with portfolio tracking and a market index behind a subscription tier. Card Ladder leans more heavily on its index/charting side; CardHedge leans more on broad multi-category card coverage plus an AI chat layer.
  • vs. GoCollect — GoCollect is comics-first with sports cards as one of several verticals. CardHedge is sports- and trading-card-first, with Pokemon and other non-sports categories folded in rather than the other way around.
  • vs. Mavin and 130Point — Mavin and 130Point are free sold-comp search engines with no portfolio or account layer. CardHedge is a full price-guide product with a persistent account, portfolio tracking, and a paid tier gating deeper features.

Related reading

Confirm the exact card with Identify & Research — free-path first (on-device OCR, catalog match, and fingerprints). For how any price guide turns raw sales into a number, see How Sports Card Price Guides Work. For the closest direct competitors, see What Is Card Ladder? and What Is GoCollect?, and for pulling your own estimate together from scratch see How Much Are My Sports Cards Worth? or open the full guides library.