Best apps to find out what something is worth

"What's it worth" and "where do I sell it" are two different questions, and most apps only answer the second. Getting the price right is where the money is: underprice and you give it away, overprice and it never sells. So here are the tools actually built to answer the first question — what each is good at, and where each falls short.

First, know what a real answer looks like

Before comparing tools, know what you're after. A trustworthy value is built from completed, sold prices for the exact item in your condition — not asking prices, and not a single cherry-picked sale. Asking prices sit above what buyers pay; one lucky sale isn't the market. The full reasoning is in sold price vs. asking price. Any tool below is only as good as how close it gets you to that spread of real sold prices.

eBay sold listings & Terapeak

The free workhorse. Search eBay for your item and filter to sold / completed listings and you're looking at what buyers actually paid, with dates. Terapeak, eBay's built-in research tool for sellers, extends that with longer history and trends. For anything eBay carries — which is nearly everything — this is the most authoritative free source there is. The cost is your time: you have to identify the exact variant, run the search, filter correctly, and read the spread yourself, and it only reflects eBay's own sales.

Google Lens (identify, don't price)

Lens is excellent at telling you what something is from a photo, and useless at telling you what it's worth. The prices it surfaces are mostly new-retail listings, not secondhand sold prices, so it answers a different question than the one you're asking. Use it as step one — identification — then take that ID somewhere that has sold data. We explain the gap in detail in why Google Lens can identify it but not price it.

Manual sold-comp lookups across marketplaces

For items that sell mostly off eBay — fashion on Poshmark or Depop, collectibles on Whatnot, local goods on Facebook — you can search each platform's sold or "recently sold" data by hand. It's the most thorough approach and sometimes the only one for a given category, but it's slow, inconsistent between platforms, and easy to get wrong if you don't match the exact item and condition. Realistically most people check one marketplace and stop.

Price×Point

This is our tool, so here's the honest pitch: Price×Point does the identify-then-find-sold-comps process automatically from a single photo. It identifies the item, then returns a real value — the median of completed sales, the range of current asking prices, and the new-retail price, each kept in a separate lane so they don't blur together. It's the same method an experienced reseller uses on eBay sold listings, done for you and across sources rather than one marketplace. What it is not: a place to sell. You take its number to whichever marketplace fits your item. And like any tool it depends on there being real sales to find — for a truly obscure item, thin data is thin data everywhere.

Which should you use?

If your item is squarely an eBay category and you enjoy the research, eBay sold listings are free and authoritative. If you just want a reliable number without the manual work — or your item spans several marketplaces — a tool that aggregates sold comps for you saves real time. Use Google Lens to identify anything you can't name, then price it somewhere with sold data; Lens alone will steer you wrong on value. The full manual method, whichever tool you use, is in how to find out what your stuff is worth.

Want the answer for a specific thing right now? We publish what particular used items sell for — the median, the range, and the real completed sales behind each one, with dates and links.