Pichu28/123 · HeartGold & SoulSilver Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
Typical copy sold $8 27 sales, all conditionsPack fresh $24est.
- PSA 8$1681 sold · 90d · pop 2
- PSA 9$3501 sold · 90d · pop 17
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. $25.55. That's about +118% 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 (28 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 confidence27 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Recent Raw sales
- Aug 15, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver Regular Rare - MPMP$11.99
- Aug 6, 2026eBay — Pokémon TCG Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver LPLP$5.00
- Aug 3, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 HeartGold & SoulSilver Rare Pokemon TCG$20.00
- Jul 26, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon LPLP$11.99
- Jul 18, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 HeartGold SoulSilver Rare Non Holo Stamped Pokemon Card$35.00
- Jul 18, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon Lightly PlayedLP$9.99
- Jul 13, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon Heavily PlayedHP$6.99
- Jul 12, 2026eBay — Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon DamagedDM$5.99
By grade
- Raw$7.9935 sales
- PSA 8$1403 sales
- PSA 10$4032 sales
- PSA 9$3481 sale
- PSA 6$41.001 sale
- PSA 3$47.951 sale
- CGC 9$18.501 sale
- CGC 8.5$9.601 sale
From 48 completed sales recorded between Jul 27, 2024 and Aug 15, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The median above is computed over the 34 sales of the printing this page lists; reverse holo copies are real sales of a different card and are shown separately rather than mixed in. 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 enough graded evidence yet — 13 graded sales recorded.
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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.
Pichu is a Rare Pokémon card from HeartGold & SoulSilver (#28, released 2010), illustrated by match. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 30 HP. Its current blended market value is $11.70 ungraded. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 5 September 2026.
Pichu price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history44 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 $12 · Raw · 15 Aug 2026
How often each grade sells · last 90 days, all marketplaces
Is Pichu worth grading?
Raw $11.70 → graded PSA 9 ≈ $350.00, after ~$73.49 grading fee → 29.9× the raw value.
The odds
Pichu is a Rare in HeartGold & SoulSilver — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 67% of the time, split across 21 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 31 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 | $350.00 | $73 | +$265 | 29.9× |
| PSA 8 | $168.00 | $72 | +$85 | 14.4× |
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. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
Only 11% of 37 PSA-graded Pichu copies are a gem-mint 10 (4 of 37) — the rest grade lower.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Pichu 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pichu Rare HeartGold SoulSilver 28/123 LPRaw · eBay$6.99
Pichu 28/123 Heartgold & Soulsilver Regular Mp-HpRaw · eBay$7.08
Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon Heavily PlayedRaw · eBay$7.50
Pichu 28/123 Heartgold & Soulsilver RegularRaw · eBay$8.00
Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$8.99
Pichu 28/123 Rare HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$8.99Cheapest raw copy $6.99 — 40% below our estimate of $12
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 9pop 171 · 90d | 11 sold$350$298–$402 | |
| PSA 8pop 21 · 90d | 1 sold$168$143–$193 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $10.90. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $17.00 (+56%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $23.80.
From 6 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 $25 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately
Price by variant
TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
🔥 Trending in the community
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
As long as Pichu is Asleep, prevent all damage done to Pichu by attacks.
Each player may search his or her deck for as many Basic Pokémon as he or she likes, put them onto his or her Bench, and shuffle his or her deck afterward. (You put your Pokémon on the Bench first.) Pichu is now Asleep.
“Despite its small size, it can zap even adult humans. However, if it does so, it also surprises itself.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Pichu cards
There are 9 different Pichu printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is HeartGold & SoulSilver #28 (Rare).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Pichu (HeartGold & SoulSilver #28) worth?
As of 5 September 2026, Pichu from HeartGold & SoulSilver is worth approximately $11.70 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
Is Pichu rare?
Pichu is a Rare card from HeartGold & SoulSilver (card #28), illustrated by match. Its current blended market value is $11.70 ungraded.
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