CradtVinyl collection value
Not what you paid for it years ago. What your pressings are worth today, matched to the exact cut you own and priced against real sales and live demand. Pronounce it however. Value it to the dollar.
Free to start, no card. Import from Discogs, CSV, or your phone camera.
The Cradt 100, live
Rebuilt June 28, 2026
103.0
Flagship index level
1,269
Pressings priced
Moving in the index
Real pressings, real Cradt Values, rebuilt nightly. Moves shown over the last 30 days. A starting point, not an appraisal.
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The same engine that values a full collection can read a taste from three names: the pressings you'd chase, and the rarest cut among them.
Type a few artists you actually listen to. Get a Curator's Read, the kind Cradt writes for Vault members every week. Fair warning: it pays attention.
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Methodology
It starts with the pressing, not the album. A title like Rumours exists in dozens of versions: first US press, UK cut, later reissues, picture discs. Cradt matches your record to its specific release so a common repress is never valued as if it were the original.
Then it reads the market. Each pressing is priced against recent completed sales and current listings from public marketplace data, weighted toward the most recent activity so a two-year-old sale doesn't anchor a price that has moved since. You get an honest low, median, and high, plus a confidence level, never a single guessed number pretending to be certain.
Demand is part of the price. How many collectors actively want a record right now is a signal a static price guide misses entirely. Cradt blends that live demand with sales so the value reflects what a pressing would fetch today, not only what one sold for last year.
The Cradt Index ties it together. The flagship Cradt 100 is an equal-weighted return index of the most-wanted tracked pressings, rebased to 100 at launch and rebuilt every night. Equal weighting keeps one expensive record from dominating, and daily moves are winsorized so a single revaluation can't whipsaw the line. It's a starting point, not an appraisal: Cradt is not a licensed appraiser, and the numbers are estimates to orient you, not to insure or sell against.
Already on Discogs?
Cradt works with your Discogs account, not around it. Connect it once and Cradt imports your collection and your wantlist, then keeps them in sync. It uses Discogs’ own sign-in, so Cradt never sees your password. Discogs stays the place you catalog, buy, and sell, and none of that changes.
What Cradt adds is the part Discogs leaves to you: a daily Cradt Index value on every pressing, a Curator’s Read that puts your taste into words, share artifacts of your shelf, and a phone-first app that installs to your home screen. Same records, a second set of tools.
Questions
It depends on the pressings, not just the titles. The same album can be a $12 reissue or a $400 first press depending on the matrix, the label variation, and the country it was cut in. Cradt matches each record to its specific pressing, prices it against recent marketplace sales and live demand, and adds it up into a collection total with a low, median, and high. You see the number in minutes, not after an afternoon of squinting at runout grooves.
Three things move it: the pressing, the condition, and the demand. A record's value starts with which exact pressing you own, the original cut almost always beats a later repress. Then condition, both the sleeve and the vinyl, graded the way collectors grade. Then how many people actually want it right now, which is where most price guides go stale. Cradt weighs all three from real marketplace data instead of one frozen sticker price.
Scarcity plus demand, in that order. A rare record nobody wants is cheap; a common record everybody wants holds steady but rarely spikes. The premiums come from first pressings, promo and white-label copies, a specific stamper or matrix, a misprint cover, a withdrawn edition, or a country-of-origin cut that collectors chase. A clean original UK Island press of John Martyn's Solid Air is worth multiples of the 2009 reissue, same songs, completely different object.
Usually, but not always, and that's exactly why the pressing matters. Originals tend to command a premium for scarcity and provenance. But some reissues are prized in their own right: an audiophile half-speed master, a first-time-on-vinyl release, a limited color variant. The trap is valuing a $15 reissue as if it were the $300 original because the album title matches. Cradt prices the pressing in your hands, not the most famous version of the record.
Almost certainly something, and often more than people expect, especially with inherited collections. Even a shelf of common titles adds up, and most collections hide a few records carrying real value. The only way to know is to value it pressing by pressing. Start free, import what you have, and Cradt tells you the total and which records are doing the heavy lifting. No vinyl knowledge required to begin.
Plenty, and you keep Discogs too. Connect your Discogs account and Cradt imports your collection and your wantlist, then keeps them in sync. On top of that it adds a daily Cradt Index value for every pressing, a Curator's Read that puts your taste into words, shareable artifacts of your shelf, and a phone-first app you can install to your home screen. Discogs stays your catalog and marketplace; Cradt is the daily read on what it's all worth.
No. If you inherited a collection or are just starting out, Cradt does the identifying for you. Connect Discogs, import a CSV, or scan the barcode on the sleeve with your phone, and it fills in the pressing, the year, and the value. Plain language, no runout-groove decoding required.
Every night. The whole catalog is repriced and the index is rebuilt on a nightly cycle, so the numbers you see reflect the latest marketplace activity, not a quarterly snapshot. Move-the-needle changes show up the next morning.
Import your collection and see the total, the hidden gems, and what every pressing is worth today.