PocketPrice vs. WorthPoint: Which Pricing Tool Fits How You Sell?

WorthPoint is the best-known name in antique price research, and for good reason — its archive of historical sold prices is enormous. But it was built for a different job than PocketPrice, and which one fits you comes down to how you actually sell. Full disclosure: we build PocketPrice, so we're biased — which is why this comparison spells out exactly where WorthPoint is the better choice.

The short version

WorthPoint is a research library. You type in what you already know about an item and dig through years of sold records to build your own conclusion. It rewards time, patience, and knowing what to search for.

PocketPrice is a field tool. You point your phone at an item and get a specific price to put on the tag — adjusted for whether you sell in an antique mall booth, a flea market, an estate sale, or online, and for your region and how fast you want inventory to move.

Price

As of this writing, WorthPoint's plans start around $29.99 per month, with higher tiers for full access and an annual option that brings the monthly cost down. There's a short free trial. That price is easy to justify if you deal in genuinely rare pieces every week — one correctly identified rarity can pay for a year.

PocketPrice starts free (15 lookups, no credit card), and paid plans run from $4.99 to $49.99 per month depending on volume. The $9.99 Picker plan — 200 lookups a month plus batch pricing and printable tags — covers most booth vendors. If your booth nets a few hundred dollars a month, the difference between a $30 tool and a $10 tool is real money.

Where WorthPoint wins

• Deep research on rare items. If you need to know what every variation of a maker's mark sold for over the past decade, a sold-price archive is the right tool.
• Specialist collectors. Serious collectors in narrow categories (coins, militaria, fine art) often want raw records, not a recommendation.
• Appraisal-style documentation. When you need to show a client comparable sales, records beat recommendations.

Where PocketPrice wins

• Speed in the field. Photo to price in seconds — standing in a booth, at an auction preview, or in a garage. No typing search terms for an item you can't identify.
• Items you can't name. A sold-record search requires knowing what to type. PocketPrice identifies the item from the photo first — maker's marks, patterns, and signatures included.
• In-person prices, not online prices. Sold records skew toward online marketplace results. What a piece brings on eBay is not what it brings in a booth in a mid-size town. PocketPrice calibrates to your venue and region.
• The rest of the workflow. Batch-price 50 items, add them to inventory, and print QR-coded price tags — pricing is step one of three, not the whole product.

The honest bottom line

Plenty of serious dealers should use both: PocketPrice for the 95% of items that need a fast, confident tag price, and a records database for the occasional piece that deserves an afternoon of research. But if you're choosing one tool to price a booth, a flea market table, or an estate sale — and you want the price on the tag, not a pile of search results — that's the job PocketPrice was built for.