Rarity only
Released 7 October 2026- Accounts no longer get a money value, only the rarity from 0 to 100 and its tier.
- Points, weights and tier thresholds are unchanged: every rarity is the same as with release 2.0.0.
How rarity works
Every number follows fixed, published points. The model computes the examples itself.
- Model
- 3.0.0
- Catalog
- 2026.10.03-2
- Word data
- 2026.10.02-2+8e88ed51b576
Contents
At a glance
The rarest cape counts in full, the second rarest half. The parts are combined, not added.
Next to the skin, capes and name history, every profile also shows how rare the account is: a number from 0 to 100 and one of five tiers, calculated from the name and the capes alone. We name no money value for any account.
What we cannot see does not count. While capes and names are not fully loaded, the rarity is therefore a lower bound.
An example
An invented account, calculated by the model itself. A click on the rarity opens the breakdown, as on every profile page.
"Wandered" with Pan, Migrator, 15th Anniversary, Vanilla, Cherry Blossom, Purple Heart, Follower's, Menace, Home, Founder's
More cases
From an everyday name to a rare cape: how points and tiers spread.
- VelmoraFounder'sStandard12 of 100
- Harborno capesRare60 of 100
- HarborMineCon 2011Unique86 of 100
- ZqMigratorUnique90 of 100
- HypixelFounder'sStandard9 of 100
- xX_Kevin2009_Xxno capes, first lookupStandard0 of 100
Name
A name is classified by its structure (length, digits, patterns, whether it can be pronounced) and by its meaning (word, first name, gaming term). The higher class counts, and every class has fixed points, up to 90.
Capitalisation, digits and underscores around a word do not make a name rarer.
How the model classifies
- FoxCommon word60 points
- HarborCommon word60 points
- q7x3 characters, mixed40 points
- VelmoraClean name3 points
Names we do not rate
Offensive names, brands and names of well-known people: Mojang can take them away. The page then says "not rated"; they add no points.
Names of one or two characters and names with characters that are no longer allowed get the most points, because they are not issued any more.
A name Mojang has flagged for a forced change adds no points.
Position inside the class
Inside a class a name sits between 0.10 and 0.90: the shorter and more common, the higher. The position only decides between two classes of the same rank; it never changes the points.
Capes
Every cape has fixed points in the catalog: the fewer accounts have it and the longer it has been unavailable, the more. The rarest cape of an account counts in full, the second rarest half.
Freely available capes add hardly any points and do not count towards the collection; code capes count a quarter there.
Four capes from the catalog
- MineCon 20113,540 owners65 points
- Crafter5,942 owners40 points
- Mojang (Classic)29 owners88 points
- Migrator6,132,061 owners2 points
Capes we have not rated yet
When a cape closes before we have rated it, its points follow its owner count: the fewer owners, the more points, 45 at most.
All capes with their points
49 capes, catalog 2026.10.03-2.
| Cape | Status | Owners | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panstill available | still available | 3,379,376 | 0 | 0 |
| Commonstill available | still available | 1,462,066 | 0 | 1 |
| Migratorclosed | closed | 6,116,722 | 1 | 2 |
| 15th Anniversaryclosed | closed | 1,557,168 | 1 | 3 |
| Vanillaclosed | closed | 689,534 | 1 | 4 |
| Cherry Blossomclosed | closed | 577,618 | 1 | 5 |
| Purple Heartclosed | closed | 507,094 | 1 | 5 |
| Follower'sclosed | closed | 478,772 | 1 | 5 |
| Menacecodes on sale | codes on sale | 431,348 | 0.25 | 3 |
| Coppercodes on sale | codes on sale | 284,562 | 0.25 | 3 |
| Homecodes on sale | codes on sale | 273,478 | 0.25 | 3 |
| Buildercodes on sale | codes on sale | 173,976 | 0.25 | 3 |
| Aurorastill available | still available | 69,313 | 0 | 1 |
| Herostill available | still available | 22,797 | 0 | 1 |
| Zombie Horseclosed | closed | 153,561 | 1 | 6 |
| Twistedclosed | closed | 33,751 | 1 | 10 |
| Yearnclosed | closed | 176,306 | 1 | 8 |
| Mojang Officeclosed | closed | 208,639 | 1 | 8 |
| MCC 15th Yearclosed | closed | 130,413 | 1 | 9 |
| Founder'sclosed | closed | 176,242 | 1 | 9 |
| Minecraft Experiencecodes on sale | codes on sale | 57,575 | 1 | 15 |
| Moonlight Trailcodes on salerare cape | codes on sale | 10,501 | 1 | 25 |
| Crafterclosedrare cape | closed | 5,897 | 1 | 40 |
| MineCon 2016closedrare cape | closed | 7,266 | 1 | 50 |
| MineCon 2015closedrare cape | closed | 6,807 | 1 | 50 |
| MineCon 2013closedrare cape | closed | 6,172 | 1 | 50 |
| MineCon 2012closedrare cape | closed | 4,063 | 1 | 55 |
| MineCon 2011closedrare cape | closed | 3,540 | 1 | 65 |
| Realms Mapmakerclosedrare cape | closed | 427 | 1 | 70 |
| Mojangclosedrare cape | closed | 214 | 1 | 80 |
| Mojang Studiosclosedrare cape | closed | 207 | 1 | 80 |
| Translatorclosedrare cape | closed | 106 | 1 | 80 |
| Mojira Moderatorclosedrare cape | closed | 51 | 1 | 82 |
| Mojang (Classic)closedrare cape | closed | 29 | 1 | 88 |
| Cobaltclosedrare cape | closed | 18 | 1 | 90 |
| Scrollsclosedrare cape | closed | 9 | 1 | 92 |
| Translator (Chinese)closedrare cape | closed | 3 | 1 | 95 |
| Turtleclosedrare cape | closed | 3 | 1 | 95 |
| Testclosedrare cape | closed | 2 | 1 | 95 |
| Valentineclosedrare cape | closed | 2 | 1 | 95 |
| Birthdayclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| dBclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Documentclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Millionth Customerclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Oxeyeclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Prismarineclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Snowmanclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Spadeclosedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Translator (Japanese)closedrare cape | closed | 1 | 1 | 97 |
Collection
Above 6 full-weight capes every further one adds 4 points, 40 at most.
Freely available capes do not count, code capes a quarter each and together at most like 1 cape. Buying cheap capes therefore makes an account hardly any rarer.
Rarity
The parts are not added but combined like probabilities: each one closes part of the gap to 100. Two rare things give more than one, never more than 100, and another cape can never lower the rarity.
Rarity = 100 × (1 − (1 − name) × (1 − rarest cape) × (1 − ½ × second cape) × (1 − collection)), each part as a share of 100.
The tier follows from the score: Notable from 15, Collectible from 35, Rare from 60, Unique from 85.
Collection: 4 points per full-weight cape above 6, 40 at most.
What does not count
What does not change the rarity
- An account verified with us.
- Index+.
- Claims such as "full access".
- The skin.
- Former names and the age of the account.
- Searches and view counts.
- Ranks, statistics and cosmetics on servers.
We name no money value for any account.
Invisible from outside, so never part of the calculation
- Ranks, statistics and cosmetics on servers do not count towards the rarity.
- A cape that was never worn in public is invisible to everyone. The cape list is a minimum.
Known weaknesses
What the model does not know or does badly, the most important first.
Owner counts are lower bounds.
Only accounts that wore a cape in public are counted. How rare staff capes and one-offs really are, we therefore know only roughly.
The block and brand lists are incomplete.
An offensive name or a brand that is on no list is rated like an ordinary name.
Word frequency comes from film subtitles.
Literary words are underrated, surnames of TV characters overrated. The top word class is protected against the latter.
Renaming to a free word raises the rarity.
Words of eleven letters or more therefore stay in the second word class, and a name younger than 30 days is flagged.
Pronounceability is a rough rule.
It lets more through than many would call "clean". The points for it are set low.
First names and gaming terms come from lists.
The lists are not complete; what is missing counts as an ordinary name.
English and German only.
Words of other languages count as ordinary names; German words sit one class below English ones.
Proper nouns count as ordinary words.
Cities and countries from subtitles are rated like English words.
Unmigrated accounts.
We do not know whether they can still be signed in to. They get a caveat, not a deduction.
Data and licences
None of these sources is fetched at run time; the word data is a fixed part of every model release.
All sources
| Source | Used for | Release and licence |
|---|---|---|
| SUBTLEX-USfrequency of English words from film subtitles (74,286 entries)npm package subtlex-word-frequencies 2.0.0, ISC | frequency of English words from film subtitles (74,286 entries) | npm package subtlex-word-frequencies 2.0.0, ISC |
| zxcvbn-ts, language packages English and Germanranked lists of English and German words, lists of first names@zxcvbn-ts/language-en and -de 4.1.1, MIT | ranked lists of English and German words, lists of first names | @zxcvbn-ts/language-en and -de 4.1.1, MIT |
| stdlib first-name listsEnglish first names@stdlib/datasets-female-first-names-en and -male- 0.2.3, Apache-2.0 | English first names | @stdlib/datasets-female-first-names-en and -male- 0.2.3, Apache-2.0 |
| wink-lemmatizerbase form of an English word, once, when the word data is built3.0.4, MIT | base form of an English word, once, when the word data is built | 3.0.4, MIT |
| List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Wordsseed of the blocklistnpm package naughty-words 1.2.0, CC BY 4.0, by Shutterstock, Inc. and contributors; reduced by an allow-list | seed of the blocklist | npm package naughty-words 1.2.0, CC BY 4.0, by Shutterstock, Inc. and contributors; reduced by an allow-list |
| Owner counts of capesrating of the capes; points for capes we have not rated yetobserved, as of the catalog release | rating of the capes; points for capes we have not rated yet | observed, as of the catalog release |
How the model changes
Points, weights and tier thresholds change only with a new release of the model or the catalog, and every release is in the changelog. Every rating names the versions it was calculated with.
Changelog
Rare capes recorded anew
Released 3 October 2026- MineCon, event and staff capes were recorded anew; personal one-offs are in the catalog with points of their own.
- Very common short words, common dictionary words and three-character names were classified anew.
Offensive names and well-known people
Released 3 October 2026- Slurs and Nazi terms are also recognised in the plural, in "-er" forms and inside compounds, in English and German. Such names are not rated.
- Names of well-known Minecraft people such as Notch, jeb_, Skeppy or Gronkh are no longer rated like ordinary names.
- God, Dad and Mom now count as top words. Before, they sat one class lower because subtitles mostly capitalise them.
First release
Released 2 October 2026- First published release of the model with 18 name classes and 49 capes.
- Words and first names of eleven letters or more cannot leave the second word class.
- Brands, names of well-known people and offensive names are shown as "not rated".
- How popular a first name is follows the higher of its English and German frequency.
- All code capes together count as at most one cape in the collection.