WorthPoint Cost 2026: Web vs App vs Annual + 6 Alternatives

Short answer: WorthPoint’s web plan, All Access, costs $29.99 a month or $305.90 a year (about $25.49 a month). In the iPhone app you can buy just the Price Guide for $26.99 a month or $249.99 a year, or Price Guide + Marks for $37.99 a month or $399.99 a year. The free trial stops after 7 lookups or 7 days, whichever comes first. If WorthPoint is more than you need, the six options below cost less, and five of them are free.

Web prices checked Oct 14, 2026 on WorthPoint’s pricing page; app prices checked Oct 2, 2026 on the App Store. Trial terms are from WorthPoint’s terms of use. Prices and trials change, so check the checkout before you pay.

WorthPoint cost in 2026: web vs app vs annual

A few things the table doesn’t show:

• The web only sells All Access now. The separate Price Guide ($28.99) and Price Guide + Marks ($37.99) web plans we saw on Aug 19 are gone, so the Library comes bundled whether you need it or not. If you only want sold prices, the app’s Price Guide plan is the narrower buy, and its annual price is the cheapest way into WorthPoint at about $20.83 a month.
• A free app doesn’t mean free prices. The app is free to download, but archive access is an in-app subscription. On Android, check the price shown in the app before you subscribe.
• Vault Starter is free, but it isn’t the Price Guide. It lets you catalog up to five items with one WorthScore estimate a year (checked Sept 25). It doesn’t open the sold-price archive.
• Plans renew. When you sign up, save the renewal date and the cancel steps. A web subscription and an App Store subscription cancel in different places.

WorthPoint says the Price Guide has more than one billion prices going back nearly two decades, Marks has more than 306,000 identifiers and the Library has more than 19,000 reference works. Those are WorthPoint’s own counts, not an audit.

The free trial: 7 lookups or 7 days

WorthPoint’s terms say the free trial, for new members who sign up on WorthPoint’s website, ends after seven lookups or seven days, whichever comes first. A lookup is opening an item’s detail page with its price. On the eighth lookup or the eighth day, the plan you picked at signup starts billing unless you’ve cancelled, and you only get one trial.

Seven lookups go fast if you browse, so treat the trial as a test:

1. Before you start, pick the seven items you couldn’t price from free sources. Save photos, marks, measurements, condition and the best free comps you found for each.
2. Spend one lookup per item, on the closest match.
3. For each item, write down what WorthPoint added, whether it changed a decision (bought, passed, repriced) and the dollar difference.
4. Keep the subscription only if those seven answers add up to more than a month of the plan plus your time.

An old $300 result doesn’t put $300 in your pocket. If it only confirms what eBay already told you, it added nothing.

Is WorthPoint worth it?

It can be, when recent sold records are too thin for what you sell. WorthPoint makes the most sense when several of these are true:

• You regularly handle antiques, decorative arts, silver, pottery, porcelain, ephemera, art or obscure collectibles.
• Exact recent sold comps usually don’t exist for your items.
• Maker marks are common in your inventory and change what you search for.
• One avoidable mistake costs you more than a month of access.

It’s a weak fit if you mostly flip current clothing, ordinary electronics, household goods or anything with lots of recent sales. There, today’s supply, model, condition and sell-through matter more than a deep archive, and the free tools below cover it.

6 cheaper alternatives, by job

What works best depends on the item. A camera with an exact model number, an unsigned pottery bowl and a rare advertising sign each need a different first step.

1. eBay sold listings: free current prices

For anything that sells often, start here. Search the exact model, pattern, size, material or product code, turn on Sold Items, and compare the same condition and included parts.

It works well for:

• current electronics and cameras;
• everyday clothing and shoes;
• toys, games and collectibles that sell regularly on eBay;
• parts and replacements with exact numbers.

Don’t average every green price. Leave out lots when yours is a single item, parts-only listings when yours works, new items when yours is used, and other variants. Check the format too: an auction and a fixed-price sale reach buyers differently.

Build a precise eBay sold search and save the exclusions that shaped your range.

2. eBay Product Research: free for sellers, three years back

eBay says Product Research looks back up to three years and shows actual sold prices, including accepted Best Offers. It’s the tool that replaced Terapeak, and it’s free for eBay sellers. Use it when the public sold results are too few, or when you want the sold-price range, sell-through or seasonal patterns.

It’s still eBay data. It won’t cover antiques that sell mostly through auction houses or dealers, and three years of sales for the wrong pattern is still the wrong comp set.

3. LiveAuctioneers: free auction results

LiveAuctioneers runs online bidding for many auction houses and keeps their past results searchable for free. It says the results go back to 1999. To see the sold price on a result, you need a free account. You can filter by auction house, maker, period and material, which makes it the closest free match to WorthPoint’s auction records for antiques, art, jewelry and furniture.

Two things to keep in mind: a hammer price doesn’t include the buyer’s premium, and an auction house reaches different buyers than eBay. Use a result to confirm that a maker or form sells, then come back to current sold prices to set yours.

4. Heritage Auctions archive: free with an account

Heritage keeps every lot it has sold, with photos, descriptions and prices realized, and the archive is free once you register. It’s strongest for coins, currency, comics, sports and entertainment memorabilia, fine art and jewelry. It only covers Heritage’s own auctions, and a lot of what Heritage sells is graded or high end, so match the grade and condition before you compare.

5. Google Lens: free identification

When you don’t know what something is, Lens can find look-alikes, product pages and printed text from a photo. Take several shots: the whole item on a plain background, the mark or signature, the underside or label, and any distinctive detail. Then turn what Lens finds into a text search and confirm the material, size, mark and era before you price it.

A visual match isn’t an appraisal. Lens doesn’t inspect the item, spot every reproduction or tell you what a buyer will pay.

6. Underpriced: our app, for in-store calls

We make Underpriced, so weigh this one accordingly. It identifies an item from photos or a barcode, estimates its value and works out profit after fees, on the web, iPhone and Android. New accounts get 5 free analyses, which show active listings and an estimate. Sold prices come with a paid plan, and the Reseller plan is $9.99 a month on the web.

It doesn’t have WorthPoint’s decades-deep archive. Use it for “buy, research more, or pass” in the aisle, not for a rare auction record. Try an analysis once you’ve photographed the labels, marks, condition and anything included.

What an archive result doesn’t prove

An old sale, on WorthPoint or anywhere else, isn’t a current appraisal. Before you use one as a comp, check:

• Identity: maker, model, pattern, date, size, material and included parts.
• Condition: repairs, chips, wear, restoration, signatures and provenance.
• Sale date: an old result shows history, not today’s demand.
• Venue: a specialist auction, a dealer and a general marketplace reach different buyers.
• Price basis: whether the buyer’s premium, shipping or other charges are included.
• Repeat sales: one great result is a lead; several comparable results make a range.

Category routes that need specialist evidence

Forums can help translate an unfamiliar mark, but an anonymous consensus isn’t provenance. Keep your original photos and check anything important somewhere else.

A no-subscription workflow

For most inventory, this is enough:

1. Photograph the whole item and every identifier.
2. Use Lens only if you don’t know what it is.
3. Search exact eBay sold results.
4. Open Product Research if the public sample is too small.
5. For antiques and art, check LiveAuctioneers and the Heritage archive.
6. Match condition, contents, date and venue, then subtract fees, shipping, item cost and a return allowance.
7. Open WorthPoint only for the gap that’s left, using the exact maker, pattern, material and size.

That order stops you from paying for archive depth on every ordinary item, and from trusting a free look-alike on a risky antique.

Sources and how we checked

• WorthPoint pricing: web plan, monthly and annual prices and the photo-search feature (checked Oct 14, 2026); database counts (checked Aug 19, 2026).
• WorthPoint on the App Store: in-app subscription prices (checked Oct 2, 2026).
• WorthPoint terms of use: free-trial lookup and day limits (checked Oct 2, 2026).
• WorthPoint Vault: the Vault Starter allowance (checked Sept 25, 2026).
• WorthPoint on Google Play: Android availability.
• eBay Product Research: the three-year window, sold prices and Best Offers.
• LiveAuctioneers auction results and the Heritage Auctions archive: free access and coverage (checked Oct 2, 2026).
• Google Lens on Android and on iPhone/iPad.
• Underpriced on the App Store and Google Play.

We compared public pricing, terms, help and app-store pages. We didn’t test WorthPoint’s signed-in archive or measure how complete any archive is. WorthPoint didn’t sponsor this page, there are no affiliate links, and we make Underpriced, which is why it’s labeled as ours.

Frequently asked questions

How much does WorthPoint cost in 2026?

On the web, All Access is $29.99 a month or $305.90 a year. In the iPhone app, Price Guide is $26.99 a month or $249.99 a year, and Price Guide + Marks is $37.99 a month or $399.99 a year. The cheapest way in is the app’s annual Price Guide plan, about $20.83 a month. Prices checked Oct 2, 2026.

Does WorthPoint have a free trial?

Yes, when you sign up on WorthPoint’s website. The trial ends after seven lookups or seven days, whichever comes first, and you get one trial. Billing starts on the eighth lookup or day unless you cancel, so pick your seven hardest items before you start.

What is the best free alternative to WorthPoint?

For everyday items, eBay sold listings, then eBay Product Research for up to three years of eBay sales. For antiques and art, LiveAuctioneers’ auction results and the Heritage Auctions archive (both free with an account) are the closest match to WorthPoint’s auction records. None of them replaces WorthPoint’s full archive.

Is WorthPoint worth it for beginners?

Usually not at first. Learn exact identification, current sold comps, condition matching and net-profit math with free tools. WorthPoint starts to pay off when you regularly handle antiques or rare collectibles with no recent sales to compare.