The invention discloses a worm gear type cam profile detector, which includes a box body, a transmission unit and a control unit, and the transmission unit includes a worm wheel, a worm, a first bearing, a second bearing, a third bearing, a first The transmission shaft, the second transmission shaft, the gear shaft, the spur gear, the fixture, the fourth bearing, the first bevel gear and the second bevel gear; the control unit includes a distance sensor, a circular grating and a control module. The rotation of the transmission unit drives the rotation of the measured cam on the fixture, and the rotation information of the measured cam is collected to the control module through the distance sensor and the circular grating. This profile detector is small in size, low in cost, fast in detection speed, high in measurement accuracy and good in practicability, and can meet the needs of on-line detection in production lines.