Reddit Comment Karma Value Calculator

1. Pick a period, such as the last 30 days. Note your comment karma at the start and at the end. Enter the difference and the number of comments you made.
2. Add up to three communities with the comments you made there and the karma those comments earned.
3. Enter your total account karma and any gold received to see your Contributor Program tier and the official rate.

What each result tells you:

Reddit comment karma is a reputation score, and it has no cash price. Reddit Help describes karma as a reflection of the upvotes and downvotes on your posts and comments. Reddit Help lists no price for karma, and the Contributor Program pays for gold, not for karma.

Karma has two real uses. Some communities require a minimum amount before a new account can post, which Reddit says is a measure against spam. Karma also sets your tier in the Contributor Program. That program pays eligible users for gold awards on their posts and comments. An account with 100 to 4,999 karma earns $0.009 per gold. An account with 5,000 or more earns $0.01 per gold.

The value of your comments is therefore what they return: karma per comment, and awards from readers. This tool measures both from your own numbers. It gives no quality score and no forecast.

The calculator divides the karma you gained by the comments you made. It repeats the sum for each day and each community.

1. Karma per comment is the mean return of one comment in the period.
2. Each community gets its own karma per comment, and the list is sorted from highest to lowest.
3. Total karma picks the tier. Below 100 has no payout, 100 to 4,999 is Contributor, and 5,000 or more is Top Contributor.
4. Gold received is multiplied by $0.009 or $0.01, then compared with the $10 payout minimum.

Use the karma figure from your profile. Reddit states that upvotes and karma do not have a 1:1 relationship, so counting upvotes gives a different number.

Example values only, not benchmarks. A user gains 540 comment karma from 120 comments in 30 days. The account has 3,200 total karma and received 600 gold.

The average is 4.50 karma per comment, or 18.0 karma per day from 4.0 comments per day. The cooking community returns 7.50 per comment, 1.67 times the average. The account has 3,200 karma, which is the Contributor tier. Its 600 gold is worth 600 x $0.009 = $5.40. Meaning: that is under the $10 minimum, so the balance rolls over.

Karma per comment moves with where, when and how you comment. These factors explain most of the change.

Community Size and Activity

A comment in a busy thread is seen by more voters than one in a quiet thread. Comment insights show the views each comment received.

Timing Within a Thread

A comment posted when a thread is new has more time to collect votes. Compare views in comment insights to check this for your own comments.

Downvotes

Karma reflects both upvotes and downvotes. A few heavily downvoted comments can turn the period negative.

How Reddit Counts Karma

Reddit calls karma an approximate reflection of votes. Your profile figure is the one that counts, not a manual tally.

Eligibility for Payouts

Reddit lists more conditions for earning: age 18 or over, a supported country and an account in good standing. Free awards and legacy awards do not count.

Karma, gold and cash are three separate things on Reddit, and only gold links to money.

At $0.01 per gold, a $10 payout needs 1,000 gold. At $0.009 it needs 1,112 gold. For awards alone, see the Reddit award value calculator.

Finding Where You Add Most

Compare three communities to see where your comments are valued. Spend more time where readers respond.

Tracking a Habit Over Time

Run the same 30-day check each month. For a longer view of total karma, use the Reddit karma growth calculator.

Checking Contributor Program Progress

Enter total karma and gold to see your tier and how close you are to $10. Vote patterns on one comment are covered by the upvote ratio analyzer.

1. Putting a Dollar Price on Karma

No official rate exists for karma. Sites that quote one invent it.

2. Trusting a Quality or Viral Score

The old version of this page printed a quality score and a viral probability from made-up multipliers. We removed both.

3. Counting Upvotes as Karma

Reddit says upvotes and karma do not match one to one. Read karma from your profile.

4. Mixing Post and Comment Karma

Your profile shows them apart. Use comment karma for this tool and total karma only for the tier.

5. Farming Karma

Reddit Help advises users not to set out to accumulate karma.

6. Counting Free Awards

Only awards given with gold count toward earnings. Free and legacy awards do not.

The averages are exact for the numbers you enter. The payout line is an estimate that Reddit alone can confirm.

Karma has no dollar price. Reddit pays eligible users for gold awards, at $0.009 or $0.01 per gold depending on the karma tier.

Yes, through the Contributor Program. Eligible users with at least 100 karma earn cash when readers give paid awards on their content. Reddit pays out once earnings reach $10.

There is no official standard. Compare your figure with your own earlier periods and across your communities, as the table in this tool does.

Reddit states that karma is an approximate reflection of votes. Upvotes and karma do not have a 1:1 relationship, and downvotes reduce karma.

You need 5,000 or more total karma. Reddit Help lists 100 to 4,999 karma as the Contributor tier and 5,000 or more as the Top Contributor tier.

A Top Contributor needs 1,000 gold, since 1,000 x $0.01 = $10. A Contributor needs 1,112 gold, since 1,112 x $0.009 = $10.01.

Anyone looking for a resale price for an account should not use it. The tool gives no such price, and it only describes your own activity.

Yes. Karma reflects upvotes and downvotes. A period with heavy downvotes shows a negative karma per comment and a red verdict.

The old figures came from invented multipliers for community size, comment type, length and age. No source supported them, so the page now shows measured averages only.

It does in some communities. Reddit Help says some communities require a certain amount of karma before you can post, to prevent spam.

No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing is sent to our servers. Anything you choose to Save stays in this browser only.

• What is karma: definition, the 1:1 note and karma requirements (Reddit Help; opens in a browser, blocks automated checks).
• Understanding Contributor Earnings and Payouts: rates per gold by karma tier (Reddit Help; opens in a browser, blocks automated checks).
• What is the Contributor Program: tiers and eligibility (Reddit Help; opens in a browser, blocks automated checks).
• Earning money on Reddit: age, country and content conditions (Reddit Help; opens in a browser, blocks automated checks).
• Post and Comment Insights: upvotes, upvote ratio, replies and views (Reddit Help; opens in a browser, blocks automated checks).