Reddit Shadowban Checker

What is a Reddit shadowban?

A shadowban hides your posts and comments from every other user while showing them to you as normal. You can keep posting and commenting, but the content is invisible to the rest of Reddit and to search engines. Reddit applies shadowbans silently, without any notification to the account holder.

The most reliable detection method is to view your profile as a logged-out visitor. If the profile returns a 404, your account is not publicly reachable, which is the defining sign of a shadowban. This tool does that check automatically and returns a plain-English result.

A suspension is different: Reddit applies it explicitly and it shows a suspension notice on the public profile page. The checker distinguishes between the two cases. For a full breakdown of causes, detection steps, and how to appeal, read the complete Reddit shadowban guide.

How the check works.

Account shadowban vs a single removed post

Why a removed post still loads for its author

A clean result here means your account is visible. It does not mean every post you made is. Reddit can remove or filter one post while the account stays in good standing, and the author is not told: fetched by its id, the removed post still comes back with its title, body and score, so reading the post proves nothing.

The way to tell is to look where the post ought to appear and notice that it does not. The API's post visibility check does exactly that in two upstream calls, which is why it is priced at $0.004, twice a normal read: it reads the post by id to learn who wrote it, then reads one page of that author's submitted posts at the maximum page size. It answers live, not visible, not found, or undecidable.

Undecidable is an honest answer

The last verdict is deliberate: a post older than the author's most recent hundred may not be on that page, and in that case the check says it cannot tell rather than guessing. Paging further back until the post turned up would mean an unbounded number of reads billed as two, so the check stays at two calls and tells you when two calls are not enough. A false all-clear is the expensive mistake here, because it is the answer that makes you stop looking.

Active, suspended or unavailable: reading the status field

When you check a profile through the API rather than this page, the response carries astatus field with one of three values. A populated profile isactive. A profile with no public data where Reddit itself flags the account as suspended is suspended, and the raw flag is passed through asis_suspended. A profile with no public data and no such flag isunavailable.

That third value exists because a deleted account and a suspended one can look identical from outside. Labelling a deleted account as suspended would be a confident wrong answer about a real person, so where Reddit does not say which it is, neither do we. A username that never existed returns a 404 before any of this applies.

Checking many accounts or posts at once

Agencies, moderators and anyone running several accounts usually need this check on a schedule, not once. Through the API a profile check is one read at $0.002, so checking 500 accounts every day costs $1.00 a day, and a post visibility check is $0.004 per post. Run the profile check first: if the account itself is hidden, there is no point checking its posts one by one.

The public-profile lookup this checker runs maps to one of the 59 REST endpoints documented per the Redditapis OpenAPI spec at docs.redditapis.com/openapi.json, so you can automate the same shadowban check across many accounts with a Redditapis key. If you are checking an account's visibility because you post into a specific community, our subreddit stats checker is the natural next step, free, and shows that subreddit's live subscriber count and current activity.