Can it analyse a private account?

No, and nothing else can either without logging in as an approved follower. Instagram returns no public profile card for private accounts, so a private handle, a deleted account and a username that never existed all look identical from the outside. The tool says exactly that rather than guessing which one you hit.

What is a good follower-to-following ratio?

For a creator being considered for a brand deal, anything above roughly 10:1 is unremarkable and healthy. A ratio below 1:1 — following more accounts than follow back — is the classic signature of follow-for-follow growth, and it usually pairs with an engagement rate that collapses once you measure it. Ratios in the thousands simply mean an established broadcast account and say nothing about audience quality either way.

How is the engagement rate calculated?

Total interactions on a sample of recent posts, divided by follower count, expressed as a percentage. The deeper analysis pulls the account's recent video posts and averages their likes against the exact follower count. Because the data source used here does not return comment counts, the rate is likes-only and is labelled as such — it reads roughly 5 to 15 percent lower than a likes-plus-comments rate, so compare it against other likes-only figures, not against a media kit that includes comments.

Why does the deeper analysis sometimes refuse to run?

It reads real post data through a paid source with a fixed monthly budget, and this page is free and unauthenticated. Rather than take the tool offline or put it behind a login when that budget runs out, it says so and leaves the free profile figures on screen. Results are cached per account for 24 hours, so a handle somebody already looked up today costs nothing to look up again.

Is this enough to vet an influencer before a brand deal?

It gets you most of the way and costs nothing. Follower ratio, posting cadence and engagement rate together catch bought followers, dormant accounts and pods. What no external tool can see is audience geography, age split and the share of reach from non-followers — ask for screenshots of the account's own Insights for those, and treat a refusal as an answer.

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What an Instagram audit can honestly see

Every free Instagram analyser reads the same thing: the Open Graph profile card Instagram serves to link-preview crawlers. That card contains three numbers and a display name, and the numbers are rounded down to whole units — no decimal place, ever. We measured it: one account's card read "5M" while its real follower count was 5,193,520. Tools that render "5,000,000 followers" with full comma grouping are not more accurate than the ones showing "5M"; they have padded a truncated figure with zeros and presented the result as a measurement, roughly 194,000 followers short. If a tool shows you a follower growth chart built from this surface, the wobble in it is rounding, not growth.

Which is why the ratios matter more than the raw counts. Follower-to-following survives rounding almost intact, and it is the cheapest reliable tell for a bought or traded audience: accounts that grew by following back sit near 1:1 no matter how large they get. Posts per follower does similar work in the other direction, separating an account that earned 50,000 followers across 200 posts from one that earned them across 4,000. Neither figure needs precision to be useful, which is exactly why they are the ones to lead with.

The number brands actually buy on, engagement rate, is not on that public surface at all. Instagram stopped publishing per-post interaction data anonymously years ago, so any tool quoting an engagement rate is either paying a data provider, guessing from follower count, or logged in as you. This one pays, which is why the deeper read is a separate click and is capped — and why, when the cap is reached, it tells you so instead of quietly returning a modelled number. A fabricated engagement rate on a page people use to price sponsored work is worse than no number at all.

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What this tool reads, and what no external tool can see

Because Instagram rounds them at source, and far harder than most people assume. Its public profile card publishes whole units with no decimal place: 853,412 followers is served as '853K', and anything from 5,000,000 to 5,999,999 is served as '5M'. We checked one account against exact data — its card said '5M' while the real figure was 5,193,520. Every tool reading that surface inherits the rounding, including this one, which is why the true range is printed alongside the number here rather than a fake-precise total.

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