What this is
How many trading cards of all kinds the major grading companies graded in 2025: 26.6m, the most in any single year.
How it’s built
- Reported by Cllct, a collectibles news site, citing GemRate, a data vendor that tracks grading-company output.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
It counts cards of every kind, sports included, across the major graders, so it is not a Pokémon figure; other reports of the same vendor's data give slightly different totals.
Where it comes from
Major authenticators graded more than 26 million cards in 2025 Cllct (citing GemRate) · January 2026 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
collectors graded 26.6 million cards in 2025