CommonPaldean Fates18/912024PSA 9
Pikachu 18/91 · Paldean Fates PSA 9 price
PSA 9 · mint slab
$27
Fair buy $17 · sell $2787× rawUpdated
Grade vs rawFull ladder →
- PSA 9 sales
- 10
- 6 cert-verified
- Last 90 days
- 4
- occasional
- Confidence
- Medium
- 4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
- Latest sale
- 59d ago
- one every ~9d
Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →
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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now
Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of . A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.
Why $27? Cert-verified PSA 9 sales
Each sale is tied by PSA to a specific graded slab — click the cert to check the exact card, grade and serial on psacard.com. Outliers against the grade’s own median are dropped; qualified slabs are listed separately beneath.
| Date | Sold via | Cert | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-25 | eBay · bestoffer | listing#144748070 | $27 |
| 2026-07-20 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#149810172 | $20 |
| 2026-07-20 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#149810173 | $20 |
| 2026-07-05 | eBay · auction | listing#135383611 | $20 |
| 2026-05-13 | eBay · auction | listing#141249461 | $21 |
| 2026-05-04 | eBay · auction | listing#87563343 | $14 |
3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.
PSA 9 price history
Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 20 sales across 11 months, Apr 2024 to Jul 2026.
PSA 9 · index · latest
$27▲ 153%over 3 years
2024-03-01 → 2026-09-21
Latest $20 (Jul 2026, 4 sales) · ▲ 82% since Apr 2024
Every PSA 9 sale we can show you
Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 10 PSA 9 sales with a median of $21; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 7 PSA 9 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.
1–8 of 14 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($21) sits below the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.
How many PSA 9 copies exist
PSA’s cumulative census for this card. It counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the rate a fresh submission should expect.
PSA 9 population
92
44.4% of 207 graded
Graded higher
89
PSA 10s above this grade
Total PSA graded
207
every grade, all time
Other graders at a 9: CGC 30 of 147 · BGS 1 of 1 · TAG 73 of 140. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.
Is Pikachu worth grading?
Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 9 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.
Verdict
Not worth it
every grade weighted by its census share
Expected net
$-26
after fees, all grades
Comes back PSA 9
5970%
of submissions, by the census
PSA 9 outcome
$-43
PSA 9 net of raw and fee
Grading cost
$70
tier fee + shipping
Trader
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the 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 fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market 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.
Built on 207 graded sales and a population of 5,110,886 · fees as of 2026-09-21.
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Pikachu (Paldean Fates #18) — PSA 9 market value USD $27, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/paldean-fates/pikachu-18/psa-9
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Frequently asked questions
How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu (Paldean Fates #18) worth?
As of 21 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu from Paldean Fates is worth approximately $27, with a fair range of $17 to $27 — about 87× the $0 raw near-mint price.
Where does the PSA 9 price come from?
From 6 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 1 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days.
How many PSA 9 Pikachu exist?
PSA has graded 92 copies of Pikachu (Paldean Fates #18) a 9, out of 207 submitted — 44.4% of the population, with 89 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.
Should I grade my Pikachu hoping for a PSA 9?
Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-26; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5970% of the time.
Is a PSA 9 Pikachu a good investment?
CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu has 10 recorded sales, 4 of them in the last 90 days, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.