Is it worth grading Gyarados?

Base Set (Shadowless) · 006/102

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$600.00TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$2350.0012 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$271.0013 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$1725after $25 fee

A raw Gyarados from Base Set (Shadowless) currently sells for about $600.00. Across 12 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $2350.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $1725.00. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $271.00 across 13 sales — which works out to −$354.00 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$2350.0012 sales
CGC10$486.3910 sales
GRADE9.5$232.758 sales
GRADE9$271.0013 sales
GRADE8$127.5028 sales
GRADE7$70.0016 sales
GRADE6$42.9913 sales
GRADE5$40.0017 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.