Check any creator before you pay them

Don’t get scammed by creators with fake audiences.

Type any creator’s handle. We tell you if their followers are real, how much you should actually pay them, and whether their audience matches yours. 30 seconds. No spreadsheet.

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We pull follower count, engagement, reach, growth, and safety signals — then return a full size-aware score in under a second.

What you get on every creator, in 30 seconds

This creator wants $4,500. They’re worth $1,200.

A real SpendVet scorecard. 5 signals, each calibrated to creator tier, with the bottom-line verdict and a fair-pay range. No login needed to see one.

@fitlifebymarcus

Instagram · Mid (250K followers)

SpendVet risk score

75 / 100

High risk · don't pay quoted rate

47% audience-authenticity risk. Comment density is 1/3 of healthy for the tier, audience location is mismatched, and follower growth shows a paid-acquisition pattern in March.

Their public rate

$4,500 per Reel

SpendVet fair-pay range

$1,200 – $1,850

If you pay quoted rate, you overpay by ~145%.That's ~$2,650 on this single deal.

Engagement vs tier

78

0.9% ER · healthy 1.5–3% for 250K tier

Real engagement is 40% below the lower band for Mid-tier creators. The quoted rate is priced as if ER were in the healthy band — you're paying for engagement that isn't there.

Audience location

88

38% audience in bot-farm geos · healthy <20%

Highest-signal fraud flag. Creator is US-based but audience skews 38% Brazil + India + Turkey + Indonesia. Either bought followers or a content-shift you'll never reach.

Comment density

72

0.6 comments per 100 likes · healthy 2–5

Engagement-pod pattern. Likes are inflated relative to genuine conversation — typical of pod-driven inflation, not authentic audience.

Follower growth shape

91

Spike: +18K followers in 48h on March 14 with no viral content

Bought-followers fingerprint. No associated viral post, no PR cycle, no trending hashtag — just a vertical spike. We saw the same pattern on 3 other accounts that month.

Audience demographic match

45

Content is male-skewing fitness · audience is 52% female

Demo doesn't match content topic. Conversion rate on fitness apparel + supplements will be 30-50% below tier expectation.

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Once you’ve vetted them ✦

You still have to manage them.

SpendVet tells you who’s real. Rosterly runs the rest — roster CRM, campaign tracking, payments + 1099s, contracts, compliance — in one workspace. From $199/mo.

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Built by an operator

“I wired $4K to a creator with 80% bot followers. Two weeks later I paid another with great vanity metrics and got zero attributable revenue. There was no honest scoring tool, so I built one. Paste any handle above — same engine I use for my own roster.”

— Aiden, founder of SpendVet

Built for

Anyone paying creators

Brand managers, founders, marketers — anyone about to send a check or product to a creator and not sure if their audience is real.

Anyone sending free product

Gifting program managers, PR people, DTC owners — anyone shipping product to a creator and wanting to make sure it doesn't go to a bot farm.

Agencies + advisors

Anyone vetting creators on behalf of clients and needing a defensible score to put in the deck.

The full platform

One workspace for every step.

From vetting a creator to paying them — SpendVet covers the full influencer marketing stack. Start with what’s live today; everything else rolls out through 2026.

Vetting

Live

Score any creator from a handle. Engagement, reach, fraud signal, brand safety, and commercial fit — calibrated by tier.

Discovery

Live

Search creators by niche, platform, tier, country, and minimum ER. Every result is pre-scored.

Outreach

Live

Proven email templates for cold pitches, follow-ups, and rate negotiation. Single-send live — reply tracking Q3 2026.

Campaigns

Live

Briefs, deliverables, creator status tracking — all in one workspace. No more six-tab spreadsheets.

Reporting

Live

Roster health, campaign spend, and outreach activity — aggregated workspace overview.

Payments

Live · Invoice ledger

Creator invoice ledger — generate, track, and mark paid. Stripe Connect payouts coming Q4 2026.

How SpendVet works

Insultingly simple. Three steps.

Step 01

Paste a handle

That's it. Drop in @theircreator and pick the platform. SpendVet pulls follower count, average views, engagement rate, growth trend, and audience signals automatically.

@liftedbyamy · Instagram

Step 02

Engine returns a size-aware score

SpendVet benchmarks against creators in the same tier — nano, micro, mid, macro, mega. A 3.8% engagement rate means something very different for a 48k micro than for a 2M macro.

Result: Engagement 71 · Reach 58 · Commercial fit 74 · Overall 68/100

Step 03

Compare and decide with confidence

Save creators to your roster. Sort by overall, engagement, or commercial fit. Every load re-pulls and re-scores so the roster stays current.

Sort 12 creators by commercial fit → bottom 3 are clear cuts

What the engine scores

Six dimensions. Not just follower count.

Every metric is benchmarked against creators of the same tier — so a 5k nano with exceptional engagement and a 5M mega with middling engagement both get a fair read.

Engagement score

Observed ER vs. what creators their size normally hit. A nano at 8% ER in a 4%-expected tier is genuinely standout — not just “decent.”

Nano at 7.2% ER vs. 4.1% expected → engagement 84/100

Reach score

Views-to-follower ratio benchmarked by tier. Catches follower-padded accounts whose content reaches almost no one.

Micro with 1.7% reach vs. 18% expected → reach 31/100

Fraud signal

Combines your fraud score input with internal consistency checks. If the follower/view/ER combination doesn’t add up, the engine flags it.

High followers, low views, low ER → elevated fraud flag

Brand safety

0–100 safety signal you provide, weighted into overall and commercial scores. Low safety drags commercial fit even when engagement is strong.

Safety 60 + strong ER → commercial score discounted 18 pts

Commercial fit

Blends niche match, safety, reach, and engagement into a single “will this convert for us” number — the one that actually matters at budget time.

Niche 0.9 + safety 88 + strong ER → commercial 79/100

Confidence multiplier

Thin data gets a lower confidence score — so you know when to trust the number and when to ask the creator for more stats before committing.

Nano with limited history → confidence 72%, score discounted

Why vetting matters

$1.5B
Lost to influencer fraud per year (IMF 2023)
34%
Of marketers have a reliable creator vetting process
$250B
Creator economy size in 2024
5 tiers
Nano → mega, each benchmarked separately in SpendVet

Sources: Influencer Marketing Factory, Influencer Marketing Hub, Forbes. Brand teams relying on follower counts alone systematically overpay for underperforming creators.

25 free lookups, no card

Create an account and score your first 25 creators — full size-aware breakdown — before paying anything.

Size-aware benchmarks

Nano creators are not judged by mega standards. Each tier has its own engagement, reach, and consistency benchmarks.

Your data stays yours

Creator stats you enter are scoped to your account. Delete your account and we wipe everything within 30 days. No data sold.

Honest about limits

We score what you enter — no live scraping. You paste the numbers, we score them. What you get is a fair, math-backed read on what you already have.

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Aiden Seidell, founder of SpendVet

hello@spendvet.com · I read every email

I built SpendVet because influencer spend decisions are still mostly vibes. Brand teams are choosing between creators based on follower counts that anyone can inflate and engagement rates that look fine until you check what’s normal for that tier. A 4% engagement rate sounds good until you learn that nano creators should be at 6–8%. The scoring engine surfaces that gap in 30 seconds.

Simple pricing

Free to start. $79/mo when you’re serious.

25 free lookups per month, no card. Pro is $79/mo — catch one inflated account and the month pays for itself.

Common questions

Honest answers.

What does SpendVet do, in one sentence?

Type any creator's @handle. We tell you if their followers are real, how much you should actually pay them, and whether their audience is a fit for what you sell.

How does it tell if followers are real?

We pull every public signal — engagement rate, audience location, comment density, follower growth pattern, posting consistency — and score them against benchmarks for the creator's tier. A 4% engagement rate is amazing for a 2M-follower mega creator and a red flag for a 5K nano. We calibrate properly.

Which platforms does it cover?

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Same engine works across all of them — every signal is normalized, so you can compare a TikTok creator to a YouTuber side-by-side.

How fast is it?

About 30 seconds for the live pull. The score, fair-pay range, and verdict are all returned together. No spreadsheets, no waiting for a researcher to email you.

Does it handle more than vetting?

Vetting + a full creator roster you can save and share lives today. Discovery (find creators by niche), outreach (email templates), campaign tracking, and payments are rolling out across 2026 in the bigger plans.

Refund policy?

If you upgrade to a paid plan and it's not for you in your first month, full refund — no questions. Email hello@spendvet.com.

Score your first creator in 30 seconds.

25 free lookups, no card. See exactly what the engine returns before you decide whether to upgrade.