Butterfree VMAX2/189 · Darkness Ablaze Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $9
- PSA 8$15modelled · pop 44
- PSA 9$21pop 242
- PSA 10$6510 sold · 90d · pop 1,311
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Darkness Ablaze #2/189, 2020. 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.
What's your copy worth?
The top 5% of this card's sales — pack-fresh examples — sold for $8.75 or more. That's about +44% 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 (88 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.
Butterfree VMAX is a Rare Holo VMAX Pokémon card from Darkness Ablaze (#2, released 2020), illustrated by aky CG Works. It's a VMAX Grass-type Pokémon with 300 HP, evolving from Butterfree V, weak to Fire ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 8 September 2026.
Butterfree VMAX price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence77 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.
By grade
- Raw$5.02121 sales · 77 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$62.0012 sales · 10 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 10$18.005 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$16.494 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9.5$14.892 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 8$7.302 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
Is Butterfree VMAX worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $62 against the $77 you put in, a $15 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $21–$62. Averaged over every outcome that is −$23 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
Butterfree VMAX is a Holo / V / ex in Darkness Ablaze — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 39 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 140 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 10 | $65.00 | $71 | −$12 | 10.7× |
| PSA 9 | $20.50 | $70 | −$56 | 3.4× |
| PSA 8 | $14.61 | $70 | −$62 | 2.4× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 1,618 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 80.3% | $62.00 |
| PSA 9 | 14.9% | $20.50 |
| PSA 8 | 2.7% | $14.61 |
| PSA 7 | 0.9% | $10.59 |
| PSA 6 | 0.6% | $6.08 |
| PSA 5 | 0.5% | $6.08 |
| PSA 4 | 0.1% | $6.08 |
| PSA 1 | 0.1% | $6.08 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.1% | $6.08 |
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
1,311 of the 1,631 PSA-graded Butterfree VMAX copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 80%. 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 1,631.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 754.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 74.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Butterfree VMAX 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pokémon Butterfree VMAX 002/189 Darkness Ablaze Ultra Rare Holo HP 300 150 ATKRaw · eBay$3.29
Pokemon Darkness Ablaze #002/189 Butterfree Vmax Raw · eBay$3.50
Pokémon Butterfree VMAX 002/189 Swsh03 Darkness Ablaze Ultra Rare HoloRaw · eBay$4.00
Butterfree VMAX 002/189 Swsh03: Darkness Ablaze HoloRaw · eBay$4.79
Butterfree VMAX 002/189 Swsh03: Darkness Ablaze HoloRaw · eBay$4.99
Butterfree VMAX 002/189 Swsh03: Darkness Ablaze HoloRaw · eBay$5.00Cheapest raw copy $3.29 — 46% below our near-mint estimate of $6
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,311 | $65$55–$75 | |
| PSA 9pop 242 | $21$17–$24 | |
| PSA 8pop 44 | modelled$15$15–$15 | |
| PSA 7pop 15 | modelled$11$11–$11 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $5.99. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $7.41 (+24%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $8.62.
From 47 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.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
14% spreadCurrently 14% 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.
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Butterfree V.
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned.
VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Butterfree VMAX cards
There are 2 different Butterfree VMAX printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Darkness Ablaze #2 (Rare Holo VMAX).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Butterfree VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #2) worth?
As of 8 September 2026, Butterfree VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $6.08 ungraded (near-mint), and around $65 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Butterfree VMAX?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Butterfree VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth around $65 — roughly 11× the raw ungraded value of $6.08.
Should I grade my Butterfree VMAX?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Butterfree VMAX rare?
Butterfree VMAX is a Rare Holo VMAX card from Darkness Ablaze (card #2).
How do I know if my Butterfree VMAX is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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