A free YouTube Shorts money calculator that reads a channel's real Shorts views and shows what they earn at your Shorts RPM.
Paste a YouTube channel or a Short to start from its real Shorts views, or type your own. Add your Shorts RPM from YouTube Studio to see what they earn.
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These are estimates from your numbers, not YouTube's. Real earnings move with where viewers live, the season, advertiser demand and YouTube Premium. Views from a link are the public counts of a channel's latest uploads.
This free YouTube Shorts money calculator shows what Shorts earn from ads.
Paste a channel or a Short and it reads the real views of its latest Shorts. Add your Shorts RPM and you get the money a day, a month and a year.
Here's how YouTube pays for Shorts, why a Short earns less than a long video, and what changes on February 1, 2027.
What is a YouTube Shorts money calculator?
A YouTube Shorts money calculator is a tool that estimates what YouTube Shorts views earn, by multiplying the views by a Shorts RPM.
A Shorts RPM is what a creator keeps per 1,000 Shorts views, after YouTube's share and the music costs.
How to use the YouTube Shorts money calculator
No Shorts RPM yet? The calculator shows the same views at 4 RPMs.
How YouTube pays for Shorts
Shorts don't earn from their own ads. YouTube pools the money from ads between Shorts and shares it out, in 4 steps from its Shorts monetization policies (read September 26, 2026):
So a Short without music keeps more, and the pool depends on every monetizing creator's views, not only yours.
What changes on February 1, 2027
From February 1, 2027, a creator needs 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days to earn from the Shorts pool that month, per YouTube's 2027 update.
Falling short doesn't remove a channel from the YouTube Partner Program. It only pauses that month's Shorts pool earnings; long video earnings carry on.
Shorts or long videos?
Shorts usually earn less per view, since their revenue is pooled and shared across creators. Many creators use Shorts to find viewers and long videos to earn from them.
For both formats side by side, use the YouTube money calculator: paste a channel and it splits Shorts from long videos.
Who is the YouTube Shorts money calculator for?
It's for creators who post Shorts:
- YouTube money calculator – channels with long videos too
- YouTube watch time calculator – channels working toward the Partner Program
- YouTube hashtag generator – creators adding hashtags to Shorts
- Video resizer – anyone making a video vertical
The rest of my tools are on the free tools page.
YouTube Shorts Money Calculator FAQs
Questions about what Shorts pay? Here's what to know.
A YouTube Shorts money calculator is a tool that estimates what Shorts views earn, by multiplying the views by a Shorts RPM.
This one reads a channel's real Shorts views from a link.
YouTube pays 1 million Shorts views times your Shorts RPM, divided by 1,000.
Your Shorts RPM is in YouTube Studio; type it into the calculator with 1,000,000 views to see the amount.
YouTube Shorts are paid from the Creator Pool: the ads between Shorts are pooled, music costs come out, and the pool is split by each creator's share of engaged views.
The creator keeps 45% of their split.
Shorts earn less because the money comes from ads between Shorts, shared across every monetizing creator's views, and music takes part of it.
Long videos earn from ads on their own watch page, where the creator keeps 55%.
Yes, a Short without music puts all of its revenue into the Creator Pool.
With 1 music track, half of it goes to music licensing, per YouTube's Shorts rules.
From February 1, 2027, a creator needs 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days to earn from the Shorts pool that month.
Missing it doesn't remove the channel from the YouTube Partner Program.
Yes, the YouTube Shorts money calculator is free, with no sign-up.
The numbers you type stay in your browser.
The YouTube Shorts money calculator is for Shorts creators planning their income, and for anyone weighing Shorts against long videos.
For long videos and Shorts side by side, use the YouTube money calculator.
To see when you reach the YouTube Partner Program, use the YouTube watch time calculator.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the YouTube Shorts money calculator as one of my free tools on navid.me.
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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