# Engagement Rate Calculator

> Work out your engagement rate on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, see the benchmark for your follower tier, and copy the arithmetic to send a brand. Free, no login.

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Calculate your rate on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, benchmarked against accounts your own size, with the arithmetic shown so you can paste it straight into a brand email.

## Your numbers

Platform

Average your last 8 to 12 posts. A single viral post produces a number no brand will believe once they check your grid.

From Instagram Insights. Leave it blank if you only have public numbers.

## Engagement rate by followers

Instagram · Micro account (10k - 100k)

3.16%Above average

Above average for this size of account. Lead with it.

Below 1%Typical 1% – 2.5%Top tier 4.5%+

### The working

Engagement rate by followers3.16%

(1,240 likes + 86 comments) ÷ 42,000 followers × 100 = 3.16%

The standard public figure. Quote this one unless a brand asks for something else.

Micro benchmark: 1% – 2.5% typical, 4.5%\+ is top tier · above average

Engagement rate by reach8.89%

(1,240 likes + 86 comments + 210 saves + 64 shares) ÷ 18,000 reach × 100 = 8.89%

What agency audit tools measure. Higher by design, because reach is only a slice of your followers.

Micro benchmark: 5% – 12% typical, 22%\+ is top tier · normal range

All interactions by followers3.81%

(1,240 likes + 86 comments + 210 saves + 64 shares) ÷ 42,000 followers × 100 = 3.81%

Saves and shares are the signals Instagram weights hardest, so include them when you pitch.

Those rates all describe the same account. When a brand quotes a number back at you, ask which denominator they used before you agree it is low.

## There is no such thing as your engagement rate

There are at least four, and they disagree. Divide interactions by followers and a healthy Instagram account lands near 3%. Divide the same interactions by reach and it lands near 12%. Add saves and shares to the numerator, as Instagram's own ranking does, and it moves again. None of those is wrong. The mistake is quoting one without naming the denominator, then letting a brand compare it against a rival who quoted a different one.

The second thing every calculator on this topic gets wrong is scoring you against a flat threshold. Engagement declines with audience size on every platform that has ever been measured, because dormant accounts pile up in the denominator and distribution caps out. A 4% rate is unremarkable at 5,000 followers and genuinely rare at two million. A tool that calls both of them "good" is helping the brand, not you, which is why the benchmarks here tighten across five follower tiers.

So show the working. An unsourced percentage in a pitch email invites an agency to run you through their own audit tool and negotiate from whatever it returns. A line of arithmetic — the interaction counts, the denominator, the tier benchmark — removes the argument before it starts, and it signals that you know which number you are quoting and why. That is the whole reason this calculator prints the formula rather than just the answer.

## Frequently asked questions

Engagement rate, without the hand-waving

### What is the engagement rate formula?

The most widely quoted version is (likes + comments) ÷ followers × 100. Instagram audit tools usually swap the denominator for reach and add saves and shares to the top, while TikTok and YouTube divide by views instead of followers. All three are legitimate; they simply answer different questions, so always say which one you used.

### What is a good engagement rate?

It depends far more on account size than on how good your content is. On Instagram, 3% is ordinary for an account under 10,000 followers and genuinely strong above a million. This calculator scores you against the band for your tier rather than a single number, because the single number is what gets creators talked out of their rate.

### Should I calculate engagement by followers or by reach?

Quote by followers as your public figure, since that is what a brand can verify from the outside. Use the by-reach rate when you are defending a low follower-based number, because it separates content quality from distribution. If reach is only 20% of your followers, a weak by-follower rate is a delivery problem, not a content problem.

### Why does my engagement rate fall as I gain followers?

Inactive and lapsed accounts accumulate in the denominator faster than active ones join, and platforms cap how much of a large audience any single post reaches. Every published benchmark shows the same decline across every platform, which is why brands compare you against creators your own size rather than against the biggest number they have seen.

### How many posts should I average before quoting a rate?

Eight to twelve recent posts of the same format. One viral post can double a monthly average, and any brand that checks your grid will notice. Excluding the outlier and saying so is more persuasive than quoting a number that does not survive a spot check.

### Can a brand tell if I inflate my engagement rate?

Yes, easily. Agencies run accounts through Modash, HypeAuditor or CreatorIQ, which scrape public like and comment counts directly and flag any gap against what you claimed. Showing your arithmetic upfront costs you nothing and removes the reason to check you.

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