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BGS grading fees and tiers
Every tier BGS publishes — price, insurance, minimum and turnaround — and how BGS compares with the other four.
Every tier
Their prices ↗ Read 2026-08-26- BASEpaused$14.95+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 75 days
- BASE with Subgradespaused$17.95+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 75 days
- Standardpaused$34.95+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 45 days
- Express$79.95+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 15 days
- Prioritypaused$124.95+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 5 days
At a glance
- Cheapest you can buy today
- $89.95Expresspaused$24.95 BASE
- Smallest submission it takes
- 1 cardBest of all fiveevery open tier
- Fastest it will turn a card round
- 15 daysExpress · $89.95
- Bills you in
- US dollars
- Declare a card above the cover and
- It insures lessThe graded card ships under-insured
- Most it will insure one card for
- No ceilingBest of all fiveCover is unlimited
- Adds a fee scaled to what the card is worth
- On every tier
- 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
- Black LabelEvery subgrade perfect — priced apart from a plain 10
- One tier per submission
- Yes
- Each submission pays its own return postage
- YesSplitting a box pays return postage twice
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 beckett.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