Use cases
What people build with the Pokémon TCG API
Every page below is a working integration, not a feature list: the code runs against the live API, and the pitfalls are the ones that actually cost people an afternoon.
- pricesBuild a Pokémon card price trackerWatch a list of cards, store a daily price series with its provenance, and alert when a card moves more than a threshold.The free tier covers a watchlist of a few hundred cards polled once a day. Historical series beyond seven days needs a paid plan.
- botsBuild a Pokémon TCG Discord botA /card slash command that answers in under a second: search, disambiguate, and reply with an embed carrying the art, the rules text and a price.The free tier is generous for a bot: images cost nothing, and a cached lookup costs nothing either. A busy server rarely exceeds it.
- appsBuild a Pokémon card collection appMirror the catalogue once, keep it current with a change feed, and value a binder without hammering the API on every screen.The free tier covers building and running a small app. Bulk snapshots, which make the initial import one download instead of many pages, are a paid feature.
- toolsBuild a Pokémon TCG deck builderFilter on structured card data, hydrate a decklist in one request, and validate format legality against the legality data on each card.Everything here works on the free tier. The reference lists that populate filter dropdowns do not count against quota at all.
- visionBuild a Pokémon card scannerTurn a phone photo into ranked card candidates, let the user confirm the printing, and add it to a collection in two taps.Recognition is included from the Growth plan up and costs 25 credits a call — the most expensive route in the price list, because it is the whole image index answering rather than a row being read. Everything downstream of it costs one.
- analyticsRun Pokémon card market analyticsPull daily series for a basket of cards, compute movement over a window, and build a report whose method survives being questioned.Complete price history and monthly bulk snapshots are paid features. The seven days on the free tier are enough to prototype the pipeline.
- no-codeUse the API from Sheets and no-code toolsPull card data and prices into a spreadsheet or an automation platform without writing a service — and without leaking your key.The free tier is designed for exactly this. A 500-row sheet refreshed daily is well inside the monthly allowance.
- agentsGive an AI agent Pokémon card dataExpose search, lookup and prices as tools an assistant can call, so answers are grounded in data with a date attached instead of recalled.The free tier is enough to build and test an agent. Tool calls are ordinary requests, so an agent that searches before answering costs a handful of them per conversation.