Butterfree
- Set
- SM Base Set
- Number
- 3/149
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- chibi
- Released
- Feb 3, 2017
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $2.04£1.54€1.80
- Today
- $0.95£0.72€0.84
- Change
- -$1.09-£0.82-€0.96 (-53.4%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $0.95£0.72€0.84 | |
| PSA 7 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 8 | 5 | – | – | $10.51£7.91€9.26 | |
| PSA 9 | 12 | – | – | $12£9.03€10.57 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $13£9.78€11.45 | |
| PSA 10 | 12 | – | – | $50£37.63€44.03 | |
About these prices
40.0% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 254 completed sales, updated Sep 29, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
254 completed listings on eBayShow 242 more
Pokémon TCG Butterfree Sun & Moon Base Set 3/149 Regular Rare Near Mint 3/149$1.79£1.35€1.58Butterfree 3/149 Rare Sun and Moon Lightly Played Pokemon Card TCG Single 3/149$1.99£1.50€1.75Butterfree Reverse MISSCUT 3/149 Sun & Moon English Pokemon Card TCG 3/149$13.49£10.15€11.8892017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Butterfree #3 PSA 9 #3$25£18.82€22.0210Cert 49327880Auction$20.50£15.43€18.058Cert 52648084Auction$18.50£13.92€16.298Cert 52648074Auction$10£7.53€8.819Cert 28153235Auction$4.25£3.20€3.74More from SM Base Set
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Espeon GX (Full Art)Grading odds
PSA has graded 40 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 35.0% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $24.44£18.39€21.52 on average against $100.94£75.97€88.89 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $76.50£57.58€67.37, so a copy is worth more raw.
1 of the 4 grades priced above had no sales at that grade, so the figure is modelled from the grades that did rather than observed.
Card facts
- Card number
- 3/149
- Rarity
- Rare
- Illustrator
- chibi
- Set released
- Feb 3, 2017
- PSA population, all printings
- 40
- Printings priced
- 2
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The same card in other sets
Legendary Collection021/110$228.41£171.91€201.15
Expedition005/165$180£135.48€158.52
Southern Islands09/18$49.04£36.91€43.19
EX FireRed & LeafGreen2/112$42.71£32.15€37.61
Expedition038/165$31.21£23.49€27.49
Neo Discovery19/75$30.65£23.07€26.99
HeartGold SoulSilver16/123$22.76£17.13€20.04
Great Encounters14/106$14.07£10.59€12.39What moves the price of this card
The Butterfree on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from SM Base Set, and it trades at $0.79£0.59€0.70 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.
Graded, it runs PSA 8 $10.51£7.91€9.26, PSA 9 $12£9.03€10.57, CGC/BGS 9.5 $13£9.78€11.45, PSA 10 $50£37.63€44.03. PSA has graded 40 copies of it. 254 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Butterfree worth?
A PSA 10 Butterfree from SM Base Set sells for $50. 40.0% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.
Is Butterfree from SM Base Set worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $26.55 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $0.95 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $74.39.
Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $50£37.63€44.03. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.
What Butterfree does
Stage2, evolves from Metapod · 130 HP · retreat 1
Psy Bolt30Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Whirlwind80Your opponent switches their Active Pokémon with 1 of their Benched Pokémon.
Weak to Fire ×2. Tournament legal in expanded.