# TickerMint API

> Daily TCGplayer market prices since February 2024 for Pokemon, One Piece, Lorcana, Riftbound, Gundam and Yu-Gi-Oh cards and sealed products, as a read-only JSON API (https://api.tickermint.cards), CSV, Google Sheets formulas and an MCP server (https://api.tickermint.cards/mcp). Data as of 2026-11-03. No key needed to try it.

## The integration in five lines

1. Base URL: `https://api.tickermint.cards`. Read-only GET endpoints, JSON. OpenAPI: https://api.tickermint.cards/openapi.json
2. Find a card: `GET /products/search?q=charizard%20ex%20199/165&game=pokemon` returns products with `product_id`, `market` (USD decimal string) and `tickermint_url`.
3. History: `GET /products/{product_id}/prices` returns `{printing: [{snapshot_date, low, market}, ...]}`.
4. Auth: optional for trying it (100 lookups a day per IP). Send `X-API-Key` from the env var `TICKERMINT_API_KEY`; free key at https://tickermint.cards/developers#keys.
5. Show "Prices: TickerMint" linking `tickermint_url` next to the prices (every plan below API Platform), and cache answers (prices change once a day).

## Which plan?

Free keys and Developer are for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial use (a store, a paid or ad-supported app, site or bot, or any product or tool a business runs) needs API Pro or above, whatever the volume.

- Just trying the API or writing a one-off script: **No key** (free)
- Personal, hobby, student or research project (no money involved), up to 1,000 lookups a day: **Free key** (free)
- Personal or research project that needs full history since 2024, bulk endpoints or more volume: **Developer** ($19/mo)
- Anything commercial: an online store, a paid or ad-supported app, site or bot, a product or internal tool a business runs: **API Pro** ($49/mo)
- Commercial and past API Pro volume, or you need to keep fetched data after cancelling or let users export it: **API Business** ($249/mo)
- A product you run for other businesses (multi-store, white-label, marketplace) or you cannot show a link back: **API Platform** ($599/mo)
- Redistributing the data, graded data at volume, an uptime commitment, or more than API Platform volume: **Enterprise** (From $1,500 a month, by written agreement)

Machine-readable: https://tickermint.cards/pricing.json. Every paid plan has a 7-day free trial (card required). Trials: 5,000 lookups and no bulk history until the first payment.

## Docs

- [Quickstart](https://tickermint.cards/docs/quickstart.md): First call in curl, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and Google Sheets
- [Authentication and keys](https://tickermint.cards/docs/authentication.md): X-API-Key header, TICKERMINT_API_KEY, free key in 20 seconds, keeping keys server side
- [Plans and pricing](https://tickermint.cards/docs/pricing.md): Every plan with price, quota, history and commercial rights, and which plan fits which project
- [Endpoints](https://tickermint.cards/docs/endpoints.md): The endpoints most integrations need, with parameters and response fields
- [Errors, quotas and rate limits](https://tickermint.cards/docs/errors.md): Every 401/402/403/429 code, its fields and what to do; quota headers
- [Terms and attribution](https://tickermint.cards/docs/attribution.md): The link back, commercial use and the no-mirroring rule
- [Examples](https://tickermint.cards/docs/examples.md): Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Google Sheets, a Discord bot and a Next.js price widget
- [Official SDKs](https://tickermint.cards/docs/sdks.md): The tickermint package for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python
- [MCP server](https://tickermint.cards/docs/mcp.md): Use TickerMint inside Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT and Claude
- [Everything in one file](https://tickermint.cards/llms-full.txt)
- [Examples repository](https://github.com/seankarltonlee/tickermint-examples)
- [Developers page](https://tickermint.cards/developers) (keys, checkout, usage)