Looking for a TCG Price Lookup alternative? TickerMint returns daily TCGplayer market history back to February 2024, a year longer than TCG Price Lookup's March 2025 start, free and keyless for non-commercial use, with commercial use from $49 a month; TCG Price Lookup is the better pick when you need graded prices, eBay sales, condition prices or Magic.

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TickerMint vs TCG Price Lookup

We make TickerMint. Every TCG Price Lookup cell below comes from TCG Price Lookup's own site on October 15, 2026, with the link; anything they do not publish says so. Spot something out of date? Email [email protected] and we fix it.

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	TICKERMINT	TCG PRICE LOOKUP
Games	6: Pokemon, One Piece, Lorcana, Riftbound, Gundam, Yu-Gi-Oh	8: Pokemon, Pokemon Japan, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece, Lorcana, Star Wars Unlimited, Flesh and Blood [source]
Price history	Daily TCGplayer market prices since February 2024 (Yu-Gi-Oh since September 2026), on every plan including free	None on Free, 30 days on Starter, full history from March 2025 on Pro and Business [source]
How often prices update	Daily; public reads are cached for an hour	Their pricing page says daily updates; their homepage says prices update continuously [source]
Free tier	$0, no key: 120 requests a minute per IP, non-commercial, with a link back	$0: 100 requests a day, non-commercial, TCGplayer raw prices only [source]
Cheapest paid plan	Developer $19/mo: 600 requests a minute and bulk endpoints; non-commercial	Starter $19.99/mo: 2,500 requests a day, non-commercial; commercial starts at Pro $49.99/mo (10,000 a day) [source]
Commercial use and license	API Pro $49/mo lets you show prices in a commercial app with a visible link; API Business $149/mo adds retention and export rights. No reselling the raw data as a feed or a competing API on any plan	Commercial use license on Pro ($49.99/mo) and Business ($99.98/mo); Free and Starter are non-commercial [source]
Graded prices in the API	No. Raw (ungraded) prices only; graded prices are not in the API or the MCP server	Yes, from Starter up: PSA, BGS and CGC, plus eBay sold and active listings [source]
MCP server / AI assistants	Yes, free hosted MCP server at api.tickermint.cards/mcp, no key or account	Not published: we found no MCP server on their homepage, pricing or docs pages [source]
Authentication	None on the free tier; paid plans use an X-API-Key header	API key required (X-API-Key header) [source]

Prices are monthly, USD, before tax. TickerMint's column: /developers.

WHERE TCG PRICE LOOKUP IS THE BETTER PICK

TCG Price Lookup covers eight games including Magic, Star Wars Unlimited, Flesh and Blood and Japanese Pokemon, and its paid plans add PSA, BGS and CGC graded prices and eBay sold and active listings. TickerMint's API has none of those. If your app prices graded slabs or needs eBay sales next to TCGplayer, it is the better choice.

Try TickerMint with no key: curl https://api.tickermint.cards/products/search?q=charizard

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QUESTIONS

What is a good TCG Price Lookup alternative?

How far back does TCG Price Lookup's price history go?

Its pricing page lists no history on Free, 30 days on Starter ($19.99 a month) and full history from March 2025 on Pro and Business. TickerMint returns daily prices back to February 2024 on every plan, including free.

Which is cheaper for commercial use?

TickerMint's API Pro is $49 a month; TCG Price Lookup's commercial license starts at Pro, $49.99 a month, with 10,000 requests a day. Both free tiers are non-commercial.

Does either have graded prices?

TCG Price Lookup does, from its Starter plan: PSA, BGS and CGC. TickerMint's API and MCP server return raw (ungraded) prices only.

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