PSA vs BGS vs CGC vs SGC vs TAG: Who Actually Grades Hardest

Now to preface this, I've talked about this in podcasts recently, but many of the graders have shut down their bulk and value tiers, making grading expensive.

CGC remains the only bulk submitter and the only one with options ranging from $17 to $20 to $55 a card.

If you're looking to go the PSA or Beckett route, you are going to be paying $80 minimum a card.

And TAG has paused all but the highest tiers right now.

Some comments on my last video talked about how CGC10s should be considered PSA10s.

So for this follow-up video, I want to actually look into the data.

I wanted to look at the math for you guys.

Diving into that data, you guys are going to be as surprised as I was, I think.

Finding that getting a PSA 10 is not near as hard as you would think, and most other graders are actually above a PSA 10 in terms of difficulty to get.

Now you might be thinking to yourself, what does it matter if PSA 10s are the most valuable? This is common knowledge, right? PSA has the highest values in terms of sold cards.

But what you're going to find out through this data is that that's not actually the case.

And even if it were, things are changing in the grading space.

And just like five or six years ago, when Beckett was actually the standard with their 9.5, the premium for these graded cards is not set in stone by any means.

Collectibles and cards chief among those... like any asset, exist on an ever-moving playing field.

And being future-proofed is how you get ahead when things start changing.

So rather than looking at personal preference when it comes to slabs or graders or turnaround times, let's take a look at the actual math for these.

Looking at five of the most graded cards in history, two Pokemon cards, one baseball, one football, and one basketball card.

Let's go to the data.