Card Ladder vs 130point: Quick Comps or Deep Sales History?

130point and Card Ladder both look up what cards have sold for, but they are built for different jobs. 130point is the quick check: a search of recent sales across eBay and auction houses, known for showing the price an eBay listing actually sold for when the seller accepted a best offer. Card Ladder is the research desk: all-time sales history, value estimates, population reports and collection tracking, most of it behind a $20-a-month Pro plan. Use 130point to price a card in the next five minutes, and Card Ladder when you need the card's full history or want to track a collection.

A note on sourcing. Card Ladder's figures come from its own pricing page and help center, checked in September 2026. 130point's website blocked our automated checks, so we describe it from its developer's App Store listing and from Card Collecting 101, a hobby reference site, and we say where we couldn't confirm something.

Side by side

	130point	Card Ladder
Built for	Fast comp lookups	Sales history, valuation and collection tracking
Best-offer sales	Shows the accepted price on eBay best-offer sales, per Card Collecting 101	Sales history filters include a Best Offer listing type
Marketplaces	eBay, PWCC, Goldin, Heritage, MySlabs and Pristine, per its app listing	A published list of more than thirty venues, including eBay, Goldin, PWCC, Heritage, MySlabs and Pristine
Sales searchable	"More than 15 million sold items," per its app listing	Card Ladder claims its sales history is the most complete database of sports card sales
Price	App is free to download, with paid plans from $9.99 a month; web terms not confirmed	Free tier; Pro $20 a month or $200 a year, with a 7-day free trial
Collection tracking	The app's "Hobby Home" hub	Pro collection with daily value estimates

130point: the fast check

Card Collecting 101 describes 130point's core value plainly: it shows the actual selling price of eBay sales, including accepted best offers, so a card's price isn't inflated by listings that carried a high buy-it-now price. It adds that you can also check sales from other marketplaces and items currently for sale.

The 130 Point app's own App Store listing adds the specifics:

• Search sold items or active listings across eBay, PWCC, Goldin, Heritage Auctions, MySlabs and Pristine Auctions, with more marketplaces being added.
• More than 15 million sold items and millions of active listings to search, by the developer's count.
• Saved searches, and watched items with a notification when a listing is about to end.
• A newer "Hobby Home" collection hub for uploading items, tracking prices, estimating graded values and listing on marketplaces including eBay.

On price, the App Store lists the app as free, with in-app purchases: a Basic plan at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, Premium at $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year, and Platinum at $24.99 a month or $249.99 a year. The listing doesn't say what each plan adds, and it notes the app contains advertising.

Card Collecting 101 also has a caution: 130point's set listings, which let you browse checklists, look neglected and out of date. The comp search is the reason to use it; don't rely on its checklists.

Card Ladder: the research desk

Card Ladder splits its features into a free tier and one paid plan. Free covers the price guide, market indexes, a daily recap of verified sales and a news feed. Card Ladder Pro, listed at $20 a month or $200 a year with a 7-day free trial, adds the parts that matter for comps: all-time sales history, a collection with daily value estimates, the CL Value estimate, camera search, full population reports and price alerts.

Its sales-history search is built for precision. Card Ladder's help center lists filters for price, date, platform, listing type (best offer, auction or fixed price), eBay seller and whether the sale was verified by its research team, and you can search by a slab's certification number to see every graded sale of that card. The platforms it tracks run well beyond eBay; its published list includes Goldin, PWCC, Heritage, MySlabs, Pristine, Alt, Lelands, REA, SCP and many smaller auction houses.

For how Card Ladder compares with its closest paid rival, see our Card Ladder vs Market Movers comparison.

The best-offer question

Card Collecting 101's description of 130point centres on best offers: it says the site shows the actual selling price of eBay sales, including accepted best offers, so a card's value isn't inflated by a high buy-it-now asking price.

Card Ladder's sales-history filters include a Best Offer listing type, so best-offer sales are in its data. The help pages we read don't say whether the price shown for those sales is the accepted offer or the asking price, so check an individual best-offer sale in Card Ladder before relying on it.

Which should you use?

• Pricing a card quickly, especially one that sells mostly on eBay: 130point.
• Researching a card's full sales history, or valuing a card that rarely sells: Card Ladder Pro.
• Checking a slab's sales by certification number: Card Ladder, which supports cert search.
• Tracking a collection's value over time: Card Ladder Pro, or the 130 Point app's Hobby Home if you already use that app.
• Paying nothing: Card Ladder's free tier has no sales history, so for free comp lookups 130point is the usual starting point. Confirm its current web terms on the site, since we couldn't.

There's no need to choose only one: use 130point for the quick number and Card Ladder for the deeper look. Our wider guide to sports card price tools covers the rest of the field. Price tools sit beside the protection ladder: they tell you how far up it a card deserves to climb, and whether a card is worth grading at all.

A simple routine that uses both

1. Search the card on 130point and read the last several sold prices, noting which were accepted best offers.
2. If the card is valuable, rare or slabbed, open it in Card Ladder and read the longer history, filtered to the same grade and grader.
3. Throw out obvious outliers, such as a damaged copy or a lot, and anchor on the middle of the recent sales rather than the highest one.
4. Write down the dates. Prices move, and a comp from last year is weaker evidence than one from last week.

What we couldn't confirm

• Whether 130point's website search is free, and what its paid app plans unlock. Its site blocked our automated checks, and the App Store listing lists plan prices without features.
• Whether Card Ladder shows accepted prices for best-offer sales.
• Either company's sales counts, which are their own claims.

FAQ

Is 130point free? The 130 Point app is free to download from the App Store, with in-app plans from $9.99 a month when we checked in September 2026. We couldn't confirm the current terms of the website search because the site blocked our automated checks, so check 130point.com directly.

Does Card Ladder show best offer prices? Card Ladder's sales-history filters include a Best Offer listing type, so best-offer sales are in its data. Its help pages we read don't say whether it shows the accepted offer price, so open an individual sale to check.

Which is better for vintage or high-end cards? Card Ladder, for most research. Its published list of selling platforms includes many auction houses beyond eBay, and Pro adds all-time sales history, certification-number search and value estimates for cards that rarely sell.

Why is it called 130point? According to Card Collecting 101, the name refers to a card thickness, 130 points, often used for memorabilia inserts.