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ACE grading fees and tiers
Every tier ACE publishes — price, insurance, minimum and turnaround — and how ACE compares with the other four.
ACE bills in pounds; the dollar figure is at 1.322 $/£ (2026-10-09).
- Coremembers only£12.00$15.86insured to £250.00 · 20 cards minimum · 75 days
- Valuemembers only£15.00$19.83insured to £500.00 · 20 cards minimum · 60 days
- Basic£18.00$23.80insured to £250.00 · 20 cards minimum · 30 days
- Standard£25.00$33.05insured to £500.00 · 20 cards minimum · 15 days
- Premier£32.00$42.31insured to £1k · 20 cards minimum · 10 days
- Ultra£60.00$79.32insured to £3k · 10 cards minimum · 5 days
- Luxury£120.00$158.64insured to £5k · 10 cards minimum · 2 days
At a glance
- Cheapest you can buy today
- £18.00Basic · needs 20 cardsmembers only£12.00 Core
- Smallest submission it takes
- 10 cardsUltra · Luxury
- Fastest it will turn a card round
- 2 daysBest of all fiveLuxury · £120.00
- Bills you in
- Pounds sterling
- Declare a card above the cover and
- It insures lessThe graded card ships under-insured
- Most it will insure one card for
- £5kLuxury · £120.00
- Adds a fee scaled to what the card is worth
- No
- Games it grades
- All sixBest of all five
- Crossing a card graded by a rival
- Terms not readNot priced here
- A perfect 10 is sold as
- Not on record
- One tier per submission
- Yes
- Each submission pays its own return postage
- No
Cheapest you can buy today: one card declared at $1,000.00, on total cost rather than sticker price · Fastest it will turn a card round: the late end of what the grader publishes
Grades it issues
19 grades · read from acegrading.com
- 10
- 9.5
- 9
- 8.5
- 8
- 7.5
- 7
- 6.5
- 6
- 5.5
- 5
- 4.5
- 4
- 3.5
- 3
- 2.5
- 2
- 1.5
- 1