130point is the default free lookup in the card hobby and it is genuinely good at what it does. The difference is depth and shape.
You want to check one card, right now, for nothing. It is fast, it is free, and for a single lookup there is no reason to use anything else. We are not pretending otherwise.
Three things change once you are doing more than checking a card.
Depth. Anything reading eBay's public sold page is bounded by roughly 90 days, because that is all the page exposes. We page through 1,095 days. Ninety days cannot tell you whether a card is drifting down across a season, what it did at the last release, or how a grade spread has moved in two years.
Shape. A search box answers one card. An endpoint answers a set list, a portfolio, a repricer or a price guide. Up to 240 completed sales per request, as JSON, with the grade and grader parsed out of every title.
Offer accuracy. On an accepted Best Offer the public sold page shows the asking price. We return what the buyer actually paid, flagged per row. Measured across 5,859 sales, the public figure read high 99.0% of the time by a median of 14.9%.
| Free card search tools | CompsAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| History per search | About 90 days | Up to 1,095 days |
| Output | A web page | JSON, 240 sales per request |
| Grade parsing | Read it off the title yourself | Grade and grader on every row |
| Best Offer price | Asking price | Accepted price |
| Bulk and automation | No | Yes |
| Price | Free | Free key, then $9 |
curl -G https://api.compsapi.com/v1/comps \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "q=nintendo switch oled console" \
--data-urlencode "condition=used"More on card comps, or the Best Offer study.
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