Games & Comics · head-to-head
CheapShark vs TCGdex
CheapShark's keyless JSON API aggregates PC game deals across roughly three dozen storefronts (Steam, GOG, Epic, Humble Store, and more), returning live and historical-low prices, percentage savings, and Metacritic scores per deal. Separate /games and /stores endpoints support price-history lookups by title or Steam AppID; live testing confirmed open CORS and no documented rate limit or paid tier.
TCGdex is a keyless, multilingual Pokémon TCG database exposing card, set, and series data via both REST and GraphQL over eight-plus languages. The old `tcgdex.net/docs` link stopped working after that domain was rebuilt as a separate consumer collection-manager app; the API's own docs and reference now live at `tcgdex.dev`.
| CheapShark | TCGdex | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, GraphQL |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
TCGdex supports 2 response formats, while CheapShark offers fewer — pick TCGdex for more integration flexibility.