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

WorthPoint is the name most people know in antique price research. It was built as a research library: search its archive of past sales, by keyword or by photo, then read through the records and work out a price yourself. PocketPrice was built for the job most sellers actually have — putting the right price on the tag, fast, for the place you sell.

The short version

WorthPoint hands you homework. Whether you search by keyword or by photo, what comes back is past sales to sort through. You still compare the records, decide which ones match your piece, and translate old online sales into a number for your table. That takes time on every item.

PocketPrice hands you the answer. Point your phone at an item and get a specific price to put on the tag, with a range, a confidence score and the reasoning spelled out — adjusted for your town, today's market and current trends, whether you sell in an antique mall booth, a flea market, an estate sale or online, and how fast you want inventory to move.

The biggest difference: a price for your market, today

A past sale tells you what one item sold for, somewhere, at some point. It doesn't know where you sell, what's trending this month, or where prices sit today. A record from three years ago, from a buyer across the country, is still just that — and it's on you to adjust it.

PocketPrice makes that adjustment for you, on every item:

• Your region and town. It prices for your city and the buyers in it. The same piece is worth different amounts in a small town and a big metro, even in the same state.
• Current trends. It keeps up with what's heating up and what's cooling off in resale, weights the newest information most, and accounts for the season and upcoming holidays.
• Today's pricing, not history. You get what the item should sell for now, not an average of what it sold for over the years.
• Your own results. Log what sells, or correct a price, and future prices shift to match what your buyers actually pay.

Price

As of this writing, WorthPoint's plans start around $29.99 a month, with higher tiers for full access.

PocketPrice starts free — 15 lookups, no credit card. Paid plans run from $4.99 to $49.99 a month depending on volume, and 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 gap between a $30 tool and a $10 tool is real money.

Why sellers switch to PocketPrice

• Speed in the field. Photo to price in seconds — standing in a booth, at an auction preview, or in someone's garage. No scrolling through comparable sales on a phone.
• It tells you what you're holding. PocketPrice identifies the item from the photo — maker's marks, patterns and signatures included — and explains what drives its value, instead of leaving you to figure out which past sales are really the same piece.
• In-person prices, not online prices. Old sale records lean heavily on online marketplaces. What a piece brings online is not what it brings in a booth in a mid-size town. PocketPrice prices for where you actually sell.
• Built-in safety checks. It flags likely reproductions and possible precious metals, so a sleeper doesn't go out the door at a yard-sale price.
• The rest of the workflow. Batch-price up to 50 items at once, save them to inventory, and print QR-coded price tags. Pricing is step one of three, not the whole product.

Side by side

• Starting price: PocketPrice free (15 lookups) · WorthPoint about $30/month
• What you get back: PocketPrice gives one tag price with a range and reasoning · WorthPoint gives past sale records to read
• Priced for your region and town: PocketPrice yes · WorthPoint no
• Adjusts for current trends and today's market: PocketPrice yes · WorthPoint no, records are past sales
• Priced for your venue (booth, flea market, estate sale, online): PocketPrice yes · WorthPoint no
• Learns from your own sales: PocketPrice yes · WorthPoint no
• Batch pricing, inventory, price tags: PocketPrice yes · WorthPoint no

The bottom line

If you're pricing a booth, a flea market table or an estate sale and you want the price on the tag instead of a pile of search results, that's exactly the job PocketPrice was built for. Try it on the next ten items you pick up — the first 15 lookups are free.

Looking at other options too? Here's why sellers looking for a WorthPoint alternative pick PocketPrice.

WorthPoint is a trademark of its owner. PocketPrice is not affiliated with or endorsed by WorthPoint. Competitor details are based on publicly available information as of October 2026.