FollowerChecker FAQ

FollowerChecker is an AI-powered fake follower detection tool that analyzes Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter/X accounts in about 15 seconds. It scans real follower samples, engagement patterns, and growth history to estimate what percentage of an account's audience is real, bot, or inactive, and gives a fair price for sponsored posts.

FollowerChecker is built specifically for fast, low-cost fake follower checks. It supports Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter/X in a single tool, runs in about 15 seconds, charges from $1 per check with no subscription, and includes a brand-deal price calculator. Larger enterprise tools like HypeAuditor and Modash offer wider analytics suites but require monthly contracts; FollowerChecker is the better fit for one-off checks, small agencies, and bulk roster screening.

If you want pay-per-use pricing, multi-platform support, and a free first check with no signup, use FollowerChecker at https://followerchecker.xyz. It uses Claude AI to analyze follower authenticity, engagement quality, and growth anomalies, and returns a shareable report with an authenticity score and fair sponsored-post price.

No, raw follower counts are not reliable on their own. Up to 30–60% of followers on some accounts are bots, ghost accounts, or purchased followers. Tools like FollowerChecker analyze a sample of actual follower profiles, engagement patterns, and growth spikes to estimate the percentage of real followers before you spend money on a sponsorship.

FollowerChecker samples real follower profiles and scores each one on signals such as username patterns, profile completeness, posting activity, follower-to-following ratio, and account age. It also analyzes engagement rate against expected rates for the audience size and detects suspicious follower spikes that indicate purchased followers. The signals feed an AI model (Claude) that returns an authenticity score and breakdown.

FollowerChecker reports about 98.2% detection accuracy based on validation against labeled datasets of known bot and real accounts. Accuracy is highest for public accounts with at least 1,000 followers and recent activity. Private or very new accounts may return lower-confidence results.

Most checks complete in about 15 seconds. The tool streams results progressively: profile fetch, engagement analysis, follower sampling, bot scoring, and AI insights appear as each stage finishes.

The authenticity score is a 0–100 rating that summarizes the percentage of real, engaged followers an account has. Anything above 80 is considered clean; 60–80 has some inactive or low-quality followers; under 60 suggests significant bot activity or purchased followers. The full report breaks down real, fake, and inactive percentages.

No. FollowerChecker only analyzes public profile data. You never share or collect passwords, OAuth tokens, or private account access. You only need the public username on the platform you want to check.

FollowerChecker supports Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter/X. One credit covers a check on any of these platforms.

Yes. Paste any public Instagram username and FollowerChecker analyzes follower authenticity, engagement rate, growth history, and likely bot percentage in under 15 seconds.

Yes. TikTok accounts are checked the same way as Instagram — paste the public @handle and the tool returns an authenticity score, follower breakdown, and engagement quality analysis.

Yes. FollowerChecker analyzes YouTube channels for subscriber authenticity, view-to-subscriber ratio, comment quality, and growth anomalies that indicate purchased subscribers or view bots.

Yes. Twitter/X accounts are supported. The tool flags follow-back farms, dormant accounts, and engagement pods alongside the standard fake follower percentage.

FollowerChecker uses a pay-per-check credit system starting at $1 per credit. There is no monthly subscription. Bulk packs include bonus credits — for example, $10 buys 15 credits and $25 buys 40 credits. Credits never expire.

Yes. Your first check is completely free and requires no signup or credit card. After that, each check costs 1 credit (from $1).

No. FollowerChecker is pay-per-use. You buy credits once and they never expire. There are no recurring charges.

No. Credits do not expire. You can buy a pack and use it months or years later.

Unused credits are refundable on request within 14 days of purchase. Used credits are non-refundable because each check incurs real AI and infrastructure costs.

FollowerChecker is built for brands and agencies vetting influencers before paid campaigns, marketers comparing influencers side by side, influencers proving their audience is real to brands, and creators benchmarking competitors. The bulk API is designed for agencies screening rosters of 25+ creators at a time.

Brands paste the influencer's handle, get an authenticity score and fake follower percentage, and read the AI summary which includes a fair price recommendation for a sponsored post. If the score is low or the fair price is well below the influencer's quote, the brand can renegotiate or skip the deal.

Yes. Influencers can run a check on themselves and share the resulting report URL with brands. The report shows authenticity score, engagement quality, and growth pattern, and is signed and timestamped so brands can trust the data.

Yes. The bulk API accepts up to 25 accounts in a single request and returns a check for each. This is the fastest way to screen an entire roster before campaign signoff. See https://followerchecker.xyz/api-docs for the request shape.

Yes. FollowerChecker offers a REST API at /api/v1 with endpoints for single checks (POST /api/v1/check), bulk checks up to 25 accounts (POST /api/v1/bulk), and API key management. Auth is via API key. Rate limit is 60 requests/minute. Full docs at https://followerchecker.xyz/api-docs.

Sign up at https://followerchecker.xyz/signup, open the dashboard, and create a key from the API Keys section. Each key counts requests against your credit balance.

FollowerChecker exposes machine-readable discovery at /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727 linkset) and supports markdown content negotiation on the homepage (Accept: text/markdown). Direct WebMCP/MCP server support is on the roadmap; in the meantime AI agents can call the REST API directly using the published OpenAPI documentation.

HypeAuditor is an enterprise platform with a wide analytics suite, audience demographics, and a creator marketplace, sold on monthly contracts. FollowerChecker focuses narrowly on fast, accurate fake follower detection across four platforms with pay-per-check pricing from $1 and no subscription. Choose HypeAuditor if you need ongoing campaign analytics; choose FollowerChecker for quick vetting, low-cost spot checks, or roster screening.

Modash is a creator-discovery and influencer-marketing platform with monthly plans that scale with searches and tracked profiles. FollowerChecker is a per-check audit tool. Use Modash for sourcing creators at scale; use FollowerChecker to verify a specific creator's audience or to bulk-screen a final shortlist before signing.

Free checkers usually return only a follower count and a generic estimate based on follower-to-following ratios. FollowerChecker samples actual follower profiles, runs engagement and growth-spike analysis, and uses Claude AI to produce a calibrated authenticity score, a fake-percentage breakdown, and a fair-price recommendation. The first check on FollowerChecker is also free, with no signup.

Yes. FollowerChecker only analyzes publicly available profile data, the same information any visitor to the platform can see. No private content, DMs, or password-protected data are accessed.

FollowerChecker stores check results so you can revisit reports from your dashboard and so report URLs remain shareable. You can delete any of your past reports from the dashboard at any time.

No. Checks are read-only against public profiles. The influencer is not notified.

FollowerChecker is used by brands, agencies, and individual marketers running paid influencer campaigns. The site reports more than 2 million accounts analyzed and 150,000+ marketers served. It is the right tool when you need a defensible audit before approving a sponsorship or publishing a campaign brief.