Going Rate $RATE

Everyone thinks they're a 10. Does the market agree?

A crowdsourced, paid-for reality check on the traits people routinely inflate. Looks. Vibes. Skills. Rate anyone. Get rated back.

The problem

Self-perception has stopped tracking reality

Résumés round every skill up. Dating profiles round every trait up. LinkedIn, X bios, the carefully-cropped photo. Every surface where people describe themselves is optimized to flatter, not to inform. Everyone is incentivized to inflate. Nobody is incentivized to be realistic.

The result isn't that people are dishonest. It's that the aggregate picture that everyone else is calibrating against is systematically too generous.

Going Rate doesn't moralize about that. It's a market response to it: a place where an honest assessment costs little, but enough of them accumulate into a number that means a lot.

How it works

A price on every opinion

Anyone can rate any X account, 0 to 10, across a handful of attributes. 5 means "about average." The mechanics are built to keep it honest rather than loud:

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Ratings cost more the further they are from average$1 at neutral, up to $6 at the extremes - a 0 or a 10 costs six times what a middling score does.
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Verified accounts count for moreAn X account with real history behind it weighs more heavily in the public ranking than a fresh, unverified one, so a handful of alts can't drown out genuine consensus.
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Every profile shows the full spreadA profile doesn't reflect one flattened average pretending everyone agrees but shows the actual distribution of what verified and unverified raters each said.
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Nobody profits from being harsh, or generousEvery payment is split between a burn and the treasury, the ratio set on-chain and visible to anyone. There's no house position on what rating you deserve.
What this is — and isn't

These are opinions, priced and aggregated. Not facts, and not verdicts. A low score on any attribute reflects what a set of raters happen to think, not a claim that anything specific happened. Nothing here should be read as an allegation.

The pricing curve exists specifically to make casual pile-ons cost more than considered ratings do. It's a deterrent, not a guarantee. Treat every number here as one crowd's opinion, priced, weighted, and shown in full, nothing more.

Find your going rate.

Connect an account, see the spread, and decide for yourself whether the market's harsher than you expected.