Is it worth grading Dratini?

Expedition · 107/165

Yes — if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$68.16TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$230.506 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$34.0012 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$137after $25 fee

A raw Dratini from Expedition currently sells for about $68.16. Across 6 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $230.50. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $137.34. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $34.00 across 12 sales — which works out to −$59.16 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$230.506 sales
CGC10$49.993 sales
GRADE9$34.0012 sales
GRADE8$25.253 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.