RaichuRC9/RC83 · Generations Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Typical copy sold $10 200 sales, all conditionsPack fresh $21est.
- PSA 8$301 sold · 90d · pop 66
- PSA 9$654 sold · 90d · pop 66
- PSA 10$227modelled · pop 8
Why prices differ
TCGplayer's figure is what sellers are asking on their marketplace, not what copies sold for — an asking price sits above a completed sale because it is the start of a negotiation, not the end of one. Our price comes from those same completed sales, adjusted to Near Mint — the median below mixes every condition together, and most copies that change hands are played rather than mint. How we weigh them →
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. $19.85. That's about +52% 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.
What this price is based on
High confidence200 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Recent Raw sales
- Sep 5, 2026eBay — Pokemon TCG Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Radiant Collection Holo EN 90 HP Stage 1$16.00
- Sep 5, 2026eBay — Raichu RC9/RC32 Radiant Collection Generations 2016 Pokemon Card LPLP$11.56
- Sep 4, 2026eBay — Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Radiant Collection 2016 Pokémon TCG English card$11.01
- Sep 4, 2026eBay — Raichu Pokémon TCG - XY Generations Radiant Collection RC9/32 Common Card - LPLP$10.99
- Sep 3, 2026eBay — Pokémon TCG Raichu RC9/32 Generations Radiant Collection Common Regular - LPLP$9.99
- Sep 2, 2026eBay — Pokemon 2016 TCG Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Rare Stage 1 90 HP Thunderbolt$6.50
- Sep 2, 2026eBay — Raichu RC9/RC32 XY Generations Radiant Collection 2016 Pokémon TCG🔥$9.99
- Sep 1, 2026eBay — Pokemon TCG Generations Raichu RC9/32 Stage 1 Regular 90 HP EN$8.50
By grade
- Raw$10.00228 sales
- PSA 9$80.005 sales
- CGC 8$11.404 sales
- CGC 0.5$11.004 sales
- PSA 8$35.003 sales
- CGC 9$18.003 sales
- PSA 7$30.001 sale
- PSA 5$14.401 sale
From 252 completed sales recorded between Dec 26, 2025 and Sep 5, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.
Grade it or not
NOT WORTH ITBased on 23 graded sales and 1,305,862 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.
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✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Raichu is a Common Pokémon card from Generations (#RC9, released 2016), illustrated by Aya Kusube. It's a Stage 1 Lightning-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Pikachu, weak to Fighting ×2. Its current blended market value is $13.09 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $227 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 17× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 6 September 2026.
Raichu price history & recent sales
Graded a PSA 9? 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 history221 in 90 days✓ real completed listings
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.
Demand & liquidity
Last sold $16 · Raw · 5 Sep 2026
How often each grade sells · last 90 days, all marketplaces
Is Raichu worth grading?
Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 5.1% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$142); most land at PSA 9 or below.
The odds
Raichu is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.
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 | $227.40 | $72 | +$142 | 17.4× |
| PSA 9 | $65.00 | $71 | −$19 | 5.0× |
| PSA 8 | $30.00 | $70 | −$53 | 2.3× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 156 PSA-graded copies:
| Likely outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 5.1% | $227.00 |
| PSA 9 | 41% | $65.00 |
| PSA ≤8 | 53.8% | $24.00 |
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; 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
Only 5% of 173 PSA-graded Raichu copies are a gem-mint 10 (8 of 173) — the rest grade lower.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Raichu 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Generations Raichu Raw · eBay$5.00
Pokémon TCG Raichu Generations RC9/RC32 RegularRaw · eBay$7.44
Pokemon Cards Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Common NMRaw · eBay$7.50
The Pokémon Company Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Radiant Regular EN 2016Raw · eBay$9.50
Raichu RC9/RC32 Moderately Played Generations C PokemonRaw · eBay$9.99
The Pokémon Company Raichu RC9/RC32 Generations Radiant Holo RareRaw · eBay$9.99Cheapest raw copy $5.00 — 62% below our estimate of $13
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 8 | modelled$227$227–$227 | |
| PSA 9pop 664 · 90d | ✓ 22 cert-verified$65$43–$68 | |
| PSA 8pop 661 · 90d | ✓ 15 cert-verified$30$23–$31 | |
| PSA 6pop 4 | modelled$15$15–$15 | |
| PSA 5pop 3 | modelled$7$7–$7 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $13.80. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $15.50 (+12%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $20.93.
From 9 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 5 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
38% spreadCurrently 38% 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.
🔥 Trending in the community
#95 on the radarRaichu is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
What people are saying: “Browsing ebay and snort laughed at description vs picture” · 21↑
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Pikachu.
This attack does 20 damage times the number of Pokémon on your Bench.
Discard all Energy attached to this Pokémon.
“The plan for today is to do nothing. My awesome tail is all curled up, and my ears are tired, too.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Raichu cards
There are 9 different Raichu printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Generations #RC9 (Common).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Raichu (Generations #RC9) worth?
As of 6 September 2026, Raichu from Generations is worth approximately $13.09 ungraded (near-mint), and around $227 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 Raichu?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Raichu from Generations is worth around $227 — roughly 17× the raw ungraded value of $13.09.
Should I grade my Raichu?
A PSA 10 sells for about $227 versus $13.09 raw — roughly a 17× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.
Is Raichu rare?
Raichu is a Common card from Generations (card #RC9), illustrated by Aya Kusube. Its current blended market value is $13.09 ungraded.
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