gaming · Checked at the edge
Is this Lichess username free?
Check any Lichess username against the platform itself, asked from the beat.rip edge. Beat.rip says taken, likely free or exactly why it cannot tell.
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- characters
- 2–20
- how it is checked
- Edge
- best free answer
- Likely free
Lichess username rules
- Length
- 2 to 20 characters
- Characters
- Letters, digits, underscores and hyphens. Capitals are allowed, and Beat.rip lowercases every name before asking, so it checks the lowercase form.
Beat.rip checks these rules on your device before any request. A username that breaks them is marked invalid, never available, and no request is sent for it.
How Beat.rip checks Lichess
The beat.rip edge asks lichess.org directly, and nobody in between. Users API: 200 with id, 404 for none. From Cloudflare it answers 429 (measured live 2026-10-29); the server then asks the player search with exists=1 (true or false), and the visitor’s browser can ask the API itself.
Requests are paced to one request at a time, 500 ms apart, identify themselves as beat.rip, and each answer is cached for seconds to minutes, so a busy minute never hammers the platform.
Every result row links to https://lichess.org/@/name, with your name in place of “name”, so you can confirm by hand.
What each answer means on Lichess
- Taken
The platform’s own endpoint returned an account for the username.
- Likely free
No account at Lichess’s own endpoint. Likely free, but a name can still be reserved, suspended or held.
- Unknown
The platform refused, rate-limited or answered something unrecognised. The row says which and links to the profile.
- Invalid
The username breaks one of the rules above, so nothing was asked.
Questions about Lichess usernames
How long can a username be on Lichess?
Between 2 and 20 characters.
Which characters can a username use on Lichess?
Only letters, digits, underscores and hyphens. Capitals are allowed, and Beat.rip lowercases every name before asking, so it checks the lowercase form.
Can Beat.rip tell whether a username is free on Lichess?
It can say “likely free” when Lichess’s own endpoint has no such account. A name can still be reserved, suspended or held, so Beat.rip never calls it available.
Does checking a username on Lichess reserve it?
No. Beat.rip cannot sign up on your behalf; claim the username on Lichess itself. Availability changes by the minute.