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Yes, there is a free trading card price API: TickerMint serves daily TCGplayer market prices for 96,998 cards and sealed products in six games (Pokemon, One Piece, Lorcana, Riftbound, Gundam and Yu-Gi-Oh), with history since February 8, 2024 (Yu-Gi-Oh since September 2026), as of November 3, 2026. It returns JSON or CSV with no key (100 lookups a day, 30 days of history; a free key gives 1,000 a day and 90 days), free for non-commercial use; commercial use starts at API Pro, $49 a month.

Free: personal use, link back. Paid: commercial use (from API Pro). Never: mirror or resell our data. Graded prices: a separate add-on with its own source credit. Free means personal projects, research, hobby and non-commercial bots, with a visible link back to the TickerMint page the data came from. No key is needed to try it: 100 lookups a day per IP with the current price plus 30 days of history. A free key (log in with your email, about 20 seconds) gives 1,000 lookups a day, 90 days of history and Google Sheets. Showing the data inside a commercial app, site or tool needs API Pro ($49 a month), API Business ($249 a month) or API Platform ($599 a month). Commercial projects that used the free API before October 2, 2026 keep free commercial use until January 1, 2027 at API Business volume (1,500,000 lookups a month, full history): create a free key and give your project and start date on the key form, and we confirm by email. Every plan may show prices in your product. No plan may copy or mirror the full catalog or price history as a dataset for redistribution or a competing price service (Enterprise by agreement).

Free, Developer, API Pro and API Business: a visible "Prices: TickerMint" link to the card's page next to the prices you show (each answer carries it as tickermint_url, and single-card answers as an attribution object). API Platform and Enterprise need no link. Your key form asks where the prices will appear (tick "not public" for a private or internal tool). We check public pages once a week. If the link is missing we email you; if it is still missing 14 days later the key can drop to no-key limits until it is back.

Every plan may show prices in your product. No plan may copy or mirror the full catalog or price history as a dataset for redistribution or a competing price service (Enterprise by agreement). Caching what you show is fine (prices change once a day), and API Business adds written rights to keep data you fetched after you cancel. We look at callers that fetch tens of thousands of different cards a day and ask what they are building; nothing is blocked automatically. For redistribution or settlement rights, Enterprise is a written agreement: hello@tickermint.cards.

API Pro is $49 a month (250,000 lookups), API Business $249 (1,500,000 lookups, retention and export rights) and API Platform $599 (5,000,000 lookups, no link back needed, use inside products for other businesses). Yearly billing is 2 months free ($190, $490, $2,490 or $5,990 a year). Enterprise starts at $1,500 a month (custom volume, redistribution rights, graded data at volume, an uptime commitment and direct support), by agreement: hello@tickermint.cards. Graded prices (PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC and more, with daily history) are an add-on at $149 a month on API Pro and above: tickermint.cards/developers#graded. Developer ($19 a month, 50,000 lookups) is for personal and non-commercial projects only.

Plans are quotas of card lookups. No key: 100 lookups a day per IP. Free key: 1,000 a day. Developer 50,000 a month, API Pro 250,000, API Business 1,500,000 and API Platform 5,000,000; paid plans get 10% grace before calls are refused. A lookup is one card: Google Sheets ranges, CSV files and bulk calls count one per card returned, every other call counts one. Until November 9, 2026, calls over the limit still answer, with a Warning header and a JSON notice; from November 9, 2026 they get HTTP 429 with an upgrade link. Every API answer carries X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining and X-Quota-Reset headers.

The per-minute limits are burst protection on top of the quota: 120 requests a minute per IP on read endpoints with no key, lower on search, scanning and login. A free key gets its own 300 a minute, Developer keys 600, API Pro 1,200, API Business 3,000 and API Platform 6,000, and every paid plan opens the bulk endpoints. Public reads are cached at the edge for an hour, so polling faster than that returns the same numbers.

Price history: the current price plus 30 days with no key, 90 days with a free key, and the full daily history back to February 8, 2024 on every paid plan. The bulk endpoints and the downloadable archive are paid.

Yes. Every paid API plan starts with a 7-day free trial. A card is required at checkout; cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing. Trials: 5,000 lookups and no bulk history until the first payment. To start the full plan sooner, end the trial and pay from your keys panel. Developer, API Pro, API Business and API Platform, monthly or yearly, all start the same way.

Daily TCGplayer market and low prices per printing since February 2024 (Yu-Gi-Oh since September 2026), all-time highs and lows, movers, set lists with totals, sealed product, deck costs and base rates. Card pages on tickermint.cards also show prices by condition and PriceCharting graded values (credited). Graded values (PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC and more, with daily history) are in the API as an add-on, $149 a month on API Pro and above, and in the MCP server's graded_price tool; condition prices are on our own pages only.

Yes, as an add-on for API Pro, Business, Platform and Enterprise: $149 a month ($1,490 a year), 7-day free trial. It returns the ungraded value, grades 1 to 9.5 from any grader, and PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE 10s from sold listings for Pokemon, One Piece, Lorcana and Yu-Gi-Oh, plus a daily history we record ourselves. Lookups count against your plan's quota (one per card). Each answer carries its source credit ("Prices from PriceCharting") and a link; keep both visible wherever you show the values.

Add https://api.tickermint.cards/mcp as a remote MCP server (in ChatGPT: Settings, Security and login, Developer mode, then Plugins and the plus button; in Claude: Customize, Connectors, Add custom connector; in Perplexity: Account settings, Connectors, Custom connector). It exposes search_cards, card_price, price_history, most_valuable, movers, all_time_highs, all_time_lows, sealed_prices, set_prices and graded_price (PriceCharting graded values, credited), plus the search/fetch pair ChatGPT expects. No account or authentication.

Every paid API plan starts with a 7-day free trial (card required), and comes with 30-day money back, no questions: reply to any TickerMint email or write to hello@tickermint.cards within 30 days of a charge and we refund it. Premium works differently: it starts with 7 days free.

Yes. The archive is every daily price since February 2024 for all six games as gzipped CSV: $499 for research and internal use (30-day link) or $2,990 for the business edition (a fresh weekly build for 12 months). Neither may be resold or redistributed.