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CGC grading fees and tiers
Every tier CGC publishes — price, insurance, minimum and turnaround — and how CGC compares with the other four.
Every tier
Their prices ↗ Read 2026-08-26- Bulk$17.00insured to $500.00 · 25 cards minimum · 150 days
- Economy$20.00insured to $1k · 1 card minimum · 90 days
- Standard$55.00insured to $3k · 1 card minimum · 10 days
- Express$100.00insured to $10k · 1 card minimum · 5 days
- WalkThrough$300.00insured to $100k · 1 card minimum · 2 days
- Unlimited Value$300.00+ $10.00 on a $1,000.00 cardno insurance ceiling · 1 card minimum · 2 days
At a glance
- Cheapest you can buy today
- $17.00Best of all fiveBulk · needs 25 cards
- Smallest submission it takes
- 1 cardBest of all fiveEconomy · Standard · Express · WalkThrough · Unlimited Value
- Fastest it will turn a card round
- 2 daysBest of all fiveWalkThrough · $300.00
- 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 1 of 6Unlimited Value
- Games it grades
- All sixBest of all five
- Crossing a card graded by a rival
- Priced by tierThe fee is charged even when the card does not cross
- A perfect 10 is sold as
- PristineEvery subgrade perfect — priced apart from a plain 10
- One tier per submission
- Not established
- Each submission pays its own return postage
- Not established
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 cgccards.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