learn · What is the ApeCheck Heat score?
Heat: is this token running right now?
Heat (0-100) measures current activity: price direction, buyers versus sellers, volume pace, holder growth and structure. It sits next to the safety score and is never a prediction.
What it is
Momentum (40%): price green on 1h, 6h and 24h, buyers versus sellers in the last hour, and the last hour's volume against the daily pace. Crowd (30%): holder growth per hour between two snapshots. Structure (30%): the safety score, liquidity as a share of market cap, and the bundle share from the launch audit.
Why it matters
A rug check tells you what to avoid. Heat tells you where the activity is right now, with the reasons written out. The two together are what a trader actually wants to know before opening a chart.
What good looks like
Heat 75+ is 'running': green on every window, buyers in the majority, volume above the daily pace, holders growing, safety 80+. Early (under 6h) and Running (6-72h) tiers use different liquidity and volume bars; past 72h a token is never a runner signal.
Caveats
Heat is 0 whenever safety is under 60 or liquidity and volume are under the bar, so a hot chart on a bad structure never shows as a runner. Every signal is priced again at 6h and 24h on /runners; read the track record before you trust the number.
where to find it on a report
Heat panel under the gauge