Pikachu5/25 · Celebrations Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $11est.
- PSA 8$1734 sold · 90d · pop 21,689
- PSA 9$3829 sold · 90d · pop 13,182
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Celebrations #5/25, 2021. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates them — this page prices 5/25.
What's your copy worth?
Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $11.89. That's about +49% over a typical Near Mint copy.
ⓘ How do we work this out?
We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (36 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.
Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.
Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.
These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Pikachu is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Celebrations (#5, released 2021), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 60 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. It's listed among our holo rares. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 14 September 2026.
Pikachu price history & recent sales
Graded a PSA 10? See its cert-verified sales and price history → — individual sales PSA tied to a specific slab, each with a cert number you can check.
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence56 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
7 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- PSA 8$19.2066 sales · 34 in 90d, sells often
- Raw$7.0856 sales · 56 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$37.6052 sales · 29 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 10$92.4036 sales · 16 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 8.5$11.0028 sales · 15 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 9$15.8026 sales
- CGC 8$9.6019 sales
- PSA 7$15.0018 sales · 12 in 90d, sells regularly
Is Pikachu worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 8 — worth $17 against the $79 you put in, a $62 loss. The money is in the 1 in 3 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $38–$1,300. Averaged over every outcome that is −$30 a card.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually pays for.
- Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
- Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
- Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
- Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
- Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.
The odds
Pikachu is a Holo / V / ex in Celebrations — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 28.6% of the time, split across 12 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 42 packs.
Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.
Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
| Target grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 9 | $38.00 | $70 | −$40 | 4.8× |
| PSA 8.5 | $31.00 | $70 | −$47 | 3.9× |
| PSA 8 | $17.00 | $70 | −$61 | 2.1× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 42,443 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 2.1% | $1,300.00 |
| PSA 9 | 28.3% | $38.00 |
| PSA 8 — typical | 45.4% | $17.00 |
| PSA 7 | 17.3% | $14.40 |
| PSA 6 | 5.5% | $7.97 |
| PSA 5 | 0.8% | $7.97 |
| PSA 4 | 0.2% | $7.97 |
| PSA 3 | 0% | $7.97 |
| PSA 2 | 0% | $7.97 |
| PSA 1 | 0% | $7.97 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.3% | $7.97 |
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
959 of the 47,702 PSA-graded Pikachu copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 2.0%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 47,702.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 9,020.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 1,201.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Pikachu 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pokémon TCG Celebrations Pikachu 005/025 25th Anniversary Edition HPRaw · eBay$3.92
Pokemon Pikachu 5/25 Celebrations Holo 25th Anniversary 2021Raw · eBay$4.79
HL-INV 2021 Celebrations Pikachu Holo Rare #5/25Raw · eBay$4.99
Pikachu #5/25 Holo Celebrations Pokemon TCG 2021Raw · eBay$5.00
Pokémon TCG Celebrations Pikachu Holo Rare Card 005/025 25th AnniversaryRaw · eBay$5.00
Pikachu 005/025 LP/NM SWSH Celebrations 25th Anniversary StampRaw · eBay$5.50Cheapest raw copy $4.79 — 40% below our near-mint estimate of $8
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 9pop 13,182 | ✓ 1834 cert-verified$38$38–$55 | |
| PSA 8.5pop 129 | ✓ 22 cert-verified$31 | |
| PSA 8pop 21,689 | ✓ 2186 cert-verified$17$16–$22 | |
| PSA 7pop 8,638 | 15 sold$14$12–$17 | |
| PSA 6.5pop 4 | modelled$10$10–$10 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $7.58. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $9.35 (+23%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $11.31.
From 17 sales in the last 12 months. These describe the market — whether a specific copy is a grading candidate is a judgment made by looking at it.
For context: a graded PSA 6 slab of this card sells for about $14 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
9% spreadCurrently 9% cheaper on PriceCharting than TCGplayer. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Flip a coin. If tails, this Pokémon also does 10 damage to itself.
“It has small electric sacs on both its cheeks. If threatened, it looses electric charges from the sacs.”
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Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Pikachu (Celebrations #5) worth?
As of 14 September 2026, Pikachu from Celebrations is worth approximately $7.97 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
Is Pikachu rare?
Pikachu is a Rare Holo card from Celebrations (card #5).
How do I know if my Pikachu is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
How do I tell this Pikachu apart from the Poké Card Creator Pack one?
They share a name and a card number but come from different sets, and the number printed on the card tells them apart: this one is 5/25 (Celebrations, 2021) and the other is 5/5 (Poké Card Creator Pack, 2004).
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