Paste a playlist link. You get a 0 to 100 bot-risk score and the signals behind it, in seconds, before you send a curator £30 to £60 for a slot.
One free check a day, no card needed. Try an example.
No Spotify login. Pro is £4.99 a month for unlimited checks.
What the score measures
The score is an estimate built from data Spotify already publishes, and it is a decision aid rather than a verdict. No single metric decides it, because any one of them can be staged. The full weighting and its measured accuracy are written up in how the bot-risk score works.
Followers measured against the saves and likes a real audience produces. Thousands of followers with almost no engagement is the oldest tell there is.
Organic lists climb steadily. Bought lists go flat, then vertical, then flat again. A single snapshot can be staged, a trend is much harder to stage.
One account running dozens of near-identical lists created in the same week is a farm, and the pattern shows up in public data.
Keyword-stuffed names built for search rather than listeners, and tracks cycled out within days, both point at paid slots instead of curation.
Where the checker stops
It scores playlists, not songs, because Spotify does not publish where a track's streams came from. It cannot prove a curator bought followers, only that the public pattern matches lists that did. It gets sharper with follower history, so a first check on a playlist nobody has monitored is a starting point rather than a settled answer. And a clean score is not a promise the pitch will land.
Read the methodology →Read next
The signals you can read by eye before you even run a check. How to tell if a Spotify playlist is fake.
Submission fees, add rates and what a slot is worth. Is Spotify playlist promotion worth it?
Best tools to detect fake Spotify playlists, plus how we compare with SubmitHub, artist.tools and Playlist Pilot.
Risk-scored profiles with pitch routes, in the curator directory and the playlist directory.
FAQ
SpotCheck reads the playlist data Spotify publishes: follower count and history, track count and engagement, the playlist name and description, and the other playlists the same curator runs. It weighs those signals into a 0 to 100 bot-risk score. It never reads your account, your listening history or anything private.
Yes. Paste a link on this page and the first check runs free. Sign in with a magic link or Google and you get a full check every day with the headline score and the top warning signal, with no card. Pro is £4.99 a month for unlimited checks and the full breakdown.
Paste the playlist URL into the checker above. You get the risk score, the band it falls in, and the signals behind it. A high band means the follower and engagement pattern matches lists we have labelled as bot-inflated, so do not pay for the slot until the curator can explain the numbers.
Measured, not asserted. On a hand-labelled 37-playlist corpus as of August 2026, a flag at the medium threshold is correct 100% of the time and catches 69.6% of the known bots; the sensitive threshold catches 95.7% at 78.6% precision. The full method and the trade-off behind those numbers are written up in the methodology guide.
No. SpotCheck scores playlists, not individual tracks. Spotify does not publish per-track stream sources, so any tool claiming to score a song for bot streams from public data is guessing. What you can do is check every playlist a song sits on, which is where paid bot activity usually enters.
No. There is no Spotify login and no OAuth prompt. SpotCheck reads public playlist data through the Spotify API using its own credentials, so nothing about your account or your catalogue is involved.
One dodged fake list covers a year of Pro. Run the first check free.