The invention discloses an automatic detection system for a ball cage holder, and the system comprises a rack, a sucking disc, a measuring head support, a camera, a camera support, a sliding seat, a sliding rail, a sliding seat cylinder, measuring tools, and a main control machine. During measurement, the sucking disc absorbs the holder, and the sliding seat cylinder pushes the sliding seat to enable the holder to move to a measurement position. The holder is positioned in a movement process, and the two measuring tools achieve one-time precision measurement. Meanwhile, the camera also achieves the precision detection of the holder. Afterwards, the sliding seat cylinder pushes the sliding seat to enable the holder to be separated from the measuring jaws of the two measuring tools. A sucking disc transmission device drives the holder to rotate twice, and the camera achieves the precision detection of the distance between two adjacent holes of the holder. The above process is carried out twice, thereby completing the detection of the holder.