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Estimate any subreddit's real posting requirements — minimum karma, account age, and verification — before you waste a post. 2 free checks per day.

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SIZING UP REDDIT'S BIGGEST COMMUNITIES

Why Subreddits Silently Reject Your Posts

Most active subreddits run AutoModerator rules that filter posts from accounts below hidden thresholds — minimum karma, minimum account age, sometimes verified email. These thresholds are never published. Your post just quietly disappears, and you're left wondering why nobody engaged.

This tool estimates those hidden requirements by analyzing the accounts that successfully post in the community — reverse-engineering the bar from who actually clears it.

How to Use the Requirements Data

  1. Before a campaign: check every target subreddit. If your account is under the estimated karma floor, posting there is wasted effort — build karma first or use a stronger account.
  2. When choosing between similar subreddits: the one with lower requirements gets your early posts; graduate to the strict ones as the account grows.
  3. When buying accounts: match the account's stats against the communities you actually need to post in — a cheap low-karma account is worthless if your niche requires 500+.
  4. After unexplained removals: combine with our removed content viewer to confirm filtering, then check what threshold you missed here.

The Requirements Landscape (What's Normal)

  • Small/niche subreddits: often no filters at all — easiest entry points for new accounts.
  • Mid-size communities (50K–500K): typically 50–100 comment karma and 7–30 day account age.
  • Large defaults (1M+): commonly 100–1,000 karma, 30–90 day age, and aggressive link filtering.
  • Anything business-adjacent (r/Entrepreneur, r/startups, crypto subs): the strictest — high karma floors plus manual review of promotional content.

Raw subscriber count is the number that lies: a huge sub with few active users gives you less real reach than a smaller, busier one. If you're weighing which communities to target — or thinking about building your own — our guide to growing a subreddit covers what actually makes a community active.

Requirements also change without notice — communities raise thresholds after spam waves. The panel version keeps history and can alert you when a subreddit you track changes its bar.

How Does the Subreddit Stats Checker Work?

We pull the subreddit's public data straight from Reddit's API — subscriber count, recent post volume, and the rules signals Reddit exposes — and then estimate the karma and account-age bar from observable patterns: the accounts that successfully post there and the removals we can see. A subreddit's literal AutoModerator config is private, so the karma/age numbers are a best estimate reverse-engineered from who actually clears the filter, not a value Reddit publishes. Type any public subreddit name and the report comes back in a few seconds — nothing behind a login is touched.

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Subreddits per check1Up to 25
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FAQ

Subreddit Requirements Questions

How accurate are the estimates?
They're statistical estimates from analyzing accounts that successfully post in the community — not the subreddit's literal config (which is private). In practice they're reliable enough to plan around, and far better than guessing.
How do you know the karma requirement if subreddits never publish it?
We reverse-engineer it from observable data: the accounts that successfully post there and the pattern of removals we can see. AutoModerator rules are private, so the number is a best estimate rather than a value Reddit exposes — but it's grounded in who actually clears the filter.
Why do my posts vanish even though I meet the requirements?
Karma and age are the most common filters but not the only ones: link domains, keywords, posting frequency, and Reddit's sitewide spam filter also remove content. Check your removed content and shadowban status too.
What's a good subscriber-to-active ratio?
There's no single magic number, but the higher the share of active users relative to subscribers, the healthier the community — a 2M-subscriber sub with a few hundred people online is mostly dead weight. A smaller subreddit with a high active ratio usually gives you more real reach than a giant, sleepy one.
Is the biggest subreddit always the best target?
No — the biggest subreddits also have the strictest karma and age filters and bury your post the fastest under high volume. Niche communities convert better and have lower bars to clear, so start there while your account is young.
Can I check multiple subreddits at once?
The free tool checks one at a time; the panel version checks up to 25 in a single run and keeps the history.

Want the deep dive? This page is for checking a subreddit's requirements before you post. To understand the filter that silently enforces those hidden karma and age bars — and how to stop your posts getting caught in it — read How AutoModerator Works on Reddit.

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