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Lookalike Audience Size Calculator

Estimate the reach of a Meta lookalike audience based on geography and percentage. Plus a readiness score for whether your seed is large enough.

By Aditya Chaturvedi

Founder, BTB Audits. $150M+ in ad spend managed across Meta and Google

Audience Setup

1 percent is most similar to seed. 10 percent is broadest.

Number of high-quality conversion events in your seed over the last 180 days.

Before you build one: lookalikes are no longer the main targeting play. Broad and Advantage+ targeting now find buyers better, with your creative doing the filtering. Use a lookalike as a small experiment (about 10 percent of budget at most), not the backbone of the account. This tool sizes the audience if you decide a test makes sense.

Estimated audience reach

4.9M

United States · 2% lookalike

Seed readiness

Usable

Seed size: 1,500 events

What this means for your account

Your seed meets Meta's minimum, but only barely.

1 percent lookalikes are workable. Above 3 percent the algorithm is extrapolating from limited signal. Consider building seed size before expanding lookalike percentage.

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Learn the methodology

How this tool actually works

This calculator gives you the number. The paired blog post explains the math behind it, the edge cases, and how to read the result for your own account.

Read: Lookalike Audiences vs Interest Targeting in 2026

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