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Karma Checker

Check any Reddit account's karma, age, and shill risk in one click.

Enter a username. Get karma, account age, top subreddits, posting cadence, and a 0–100 shill-risk score. Free, uses Reddit's public API, no signup required for your first 3 runs.

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0–100

Shill-risk score

100

Posts analyzed

Live

Reddit public API

Free

3 checks / day

What karma really tells you

Karma is Reddit's crudest trust signal, and it's still useful because everyone treats it that way. A 3-month-old account with 200 karma reads as "probably fine". A 6-year-old account with 40,000 karma reads as "real person". A 2-week-old account with 12 karma who's already posted three times about a specific product reads as "shill" — even if it isn't one.

Mods use these same signals implicitly. AutoModerator often blocks posts from accounts under a karma or age threshold. Users mass-report low-karma accounts posting anything remotely promotional. Knowing what an account's profile looks like to other Redditors is the first step to knowing whether it should be doing what you want it to do.

Three use cases we hear all the time

1. Vetting a paid influencer or partner. Before you pay someone to post about your product on Reddit, check their account. Real Redditor with 4 years and 15k karma across 20 subs? Fine. Two-month-old account with 800 karma posting exclusively in one niche? You're paying for a shadowban.

2. Spotting bot rings. Competitor spinning up 10 accounts to trash your product in the comments? The pattern is obvious in the karma checker — all created within a week of each other, all posting the same narrow set of subs, all with similar karma distributions.

3. Checking your own account before you post. Founders often try to post their launch on their own account and get instant-removed. Almost always because the account is under the karma/age threshold or has zero non-promotional activity. Run yourself first.

The shill-risk score, explained

We combine five signals into a single 0–100 score:

  • Account age — younger = riskier
  • Karma-to-age ratio — unnaturally low or unnaturally spiky = riskier
  • Subreddit diversity — narrow, product-adjacent-only = riskier
  • Posting cadence — burst patterns (10 posts in a day, then dark for weeks) = riskier
  • Brand mention density — high % of posts mention one brand or URL = riskier

Under 30: looks like a real user. 30–60: mixed signals, use judgment. 60+: looks like an operator account. Not a verdict — a signal.

What we DON'T do

We don't scrape private data. We don't show deleted or removed content. We don't store the usernames you look up. And we don't send outreach to the accounts you check. Everything shown is already publicly visible on the user's Reddit profile page — we just aggregate it and add a score.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does the karma checker show?+

Enter any Reddit username. You'll get total post karma, comment karma, account age, top 10 subreddits by activity, average post/comment cadence, and a 0–100 'shill-risk' score based on posting patterns (new account + heavy promotion of one brand = high; old account + diverse activity = low).

Why would I need to check someone's karma?+

Three main use cases. (1) Vetting influencers or partners before paying them to post on your behalf. (2) Spotting bot rings or paid shill accounts targeting your brand's mentions. (3) Deciding whether an account replying to you is a real user or a competitor's throwaway.

What's a 'shill-risk score'?+

A 0–100 signal (higher = riskier) built from account age, karma distribution, subreddit diversity, posting cadence, and whether the account posts almost exclusively about one brand, tool, or narrow topic. Real users have varied interests and posting patterns; shill accounts don't.

Can I use this to check my own account?+

Yes — it's actually a great use case. Before you start posting for a business on your personal Reddit, run yourself through the checker to see what other users would see. Low karma + almost no comments = you'll get flagged as a promo account.

Is this against Reddit's terms of service?+

No. We only use Reddit's public API and only show data that's already publicly visible on any user's profile page. We don't scrape private messages, deleted posts, or any data behind a login.

How accurate is the data?+

It's exactly what Reddit returns via its public API at the time of the query. Karma and account age are always accurate. Sub-breakdown and cadence are based on the user's last 100 public posts and comments (Reddit's API cap).

Is it free?+

Yes. Three lookups per day free with no signup.

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