Which pages we checked, and what we did not do
We checked the Modash fake follower checker on modash.io, and hypeauditor.com, on 13 August 2026. We read their public pages. We did not create an account with either one, we did not run a single report, and we have never paid either company.
One more thing you should know before you read our opinion of an audit tool: we sell Instagram engagement. These tools exist partly to detect what services like ours deliver. That is a real conflict, so this post sticks to what each site prints in writing, and says "not published" or "we could not load it" wherever the page did not tell us. If you want the wider self-audit method rather than a tool comparison, that lives in our guide to auditing your own Instagram account.
What HypeAuditor's free check prints
HypeAuditor's free fake follower page is the more open of the two. It states that you can enter any account in the search bar, and it names exactly three things the free result shows:
- Audience Quality Score (AQS) — HypeAuditor's own single number for how believable an audience looks.
- Follower Count
- Engagement Rate — likes and comments measured against follower count.
There is a hard limit written on the page: "you can check for fake followers on any account that has at least 1K followers". If you have 600 followers in Jaipur and you are trying to check yourself, this tool will not do it. That rules out a large share of the Indian creators who most want the answer.
HypeAuditor also runs a free-tools hub with an Instagram engagement calculator, an Instagram audit, the fake-follower check and a follower-count checker. Sign-up links sit throughout, so the fuller report clearly moves behind a registration wall.
What the Modash fake follower checker prints
The Modash fake follower checker is a single box on an open page: type an @handle, press check. The page calls itself "a limited free version of Modash's influencer vetting feature" and says it runs "Free, with no sign-up needed".
What the page says the free check returns:
- Fake follower rate — the share of the audience it reads as inauthentic.
- Engagement rate
- Top audience countries — useful if you are trying to prove an Indian audience to an Indian brand.
- Audience demographics
Two things that page does not state: a minimum follower count, and a cap on how many handles you can check per day. Some third-party blogs quote a daily limit. Modash's own page does not, so we are leaving that as not published rather than repeating a number we cannot source.
For an Indian creator under 1,000 followers, this is the whole ball game. HypeAuditor's free check will not run on you at all. Modash's page sets no such floor in writing, and asks you to create nothing.
The other document worth reading on modash.io is the pricing page, because it shows what the free layer is a sample of.
What each one costs once the free part runs out
These are the figures each site printed on 13 August 2026. Both are in US dollars, so an Indian card or account gets converted at whatever rate your bank uses that day.
| Printed on the site | Modash | HypeAuditor |
|---|---|---|
| Free entry point | "14-day free trial with no credit card required" | Free tools run with no payment; free sign-up offered for fuller reports |
| What the free tier includes | "Open and view up to 20 influencer profiles", 6 creator emails, 10 tracked creators | Not published on the pages we loaded |
| Cheapest paid plan | Essentials, "$199 Monthly" (listed down from $299) | Not readable on the pricing page we loaded |
| Profiles included on that plan | "300 opened profiles" a month | Not published |
| Higher tiers | Performance "$499 Monthly"; Enterprise "Starts at $14,700 Yearly" | Not readable |
Read that table as a creator, not as an agency. A single Indian creator checking one account has no business paying $199 a month for either. The free layer is the whole product for you. The paid layer is built for brands and agencies vetting hundreds of profiles.
Which score will an Indian brand actually ask you for?
We are not going to answer this one with a number, because we have not surveyed Indian brands or agencies and we are not going to invent a survey.
What we can reason about openly: AQS is a named, quotable score, which makes it easy to paste into a DM or a media kit. Modash's free check hands you raw numbers rather than a single badge, and its fuller data sits inside a paid dashboard — which means the brand or the agency usually runs that check on you rather than you running it on yourself. So the practical split is that you are more likely to show a HypeAuditor score, and more likely to be checked on a tool you never see.
The move that actually works costs nothing: before you pay for any report, message the brand and ask which one they want. Many will say none. We wrote up what brands really look at in our post on whether brands check for fake followers before a sponsorship.
What neither tool can tell you
Both scores are estimates built from patterns in a public profile. Neither can see your account's private side, and this matters:
- Neither knows who added the followers. A bot-follow wave you never asked for looks identical to a purchase you made. The score cannot tell the difference, and neither can a brand reading it.
- Neither can see Instagram's view of you. No outside tool knows whether your reach has been limited.
- Neither replaces your own Insights. Saves, shares and profile visits from your own account are more honest than any third-party estimate.
- Neither publishes its method. Both scores are closed. You cannot audit the auditor.
If you want a figure you can compute yourself with nothing but a calculator, work out your engagement rate by hand — we show the arithmetic step by step in our Hinglish walkthrough on Instagram engagement rate kaise nikale.
What we could not verify
Everything in this list is genuinely unknown to us, and we are leaving it unknown rather than filling it in:
- The exact free-lookup limit on either tool. Neither page states one.
- Whether the free numbers match the paid numbers on the same account.
- How accurate either score is on small Indian accounts, or on accounts with a mostly Hindi-speaking audience.
- HypeAuditor's plan names and prices — its pricing page did not render for us.
- Whether either service stores the handles typed into the free tool.
- How either report actually reads, because we ran neither.
What these tools do better than us
All of it, in this category. We do not sell audits, we do not publish an authenticity score, and we would not expect you to trust one from us if we did. If you need a number to show a brand, get it from them, not from us.
Here is the part that argues against our own sale, and it is still the truth: if a check comes back showing a high fake share, buying more followers moves that score in the wrong direction. More cheap followers do not dilute a bad audience — they are the thing being measured. The fix is slower and duller. Post consistently, let real people arrive, and give it weeks.
Where we are genuinely different from a panel you might be comparing us against: we never need your Instagram password or a login code, only a public username or post link, and every rate is printed openly. If you do decide to add social proof anyway, do it in small, spaced amounts rather than one big drop — our minimum is 50 followers at ₹750 per 1,000, which comes to about ₹38. The full rate card sits on our India followers page, and you can place a test order that size and watch what the numbers do afterwards.
And the line no audit tool will print for you: buying engagement is against Instagram's Terms of Service. The most honest description of what any panel sells, ours included, is real-looking, drip-delivered, refill-backed engagement. It sits beside real posting. It does not replace it, and it will not raise an Audience Quality Score.
