A free YouTube money calculator that reads a channel's or video's real views and shows what they earn at your RPM.
5.0(1 rating)Paste a YouTube channel or video to start from its real views, or type your own. Add your RPM from YouTube Studio to see what the views earn.
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What it earns
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 money calculator shows what a YouTube channel or video earns from ads.
Paste a channel or a video and it reads the real views of its latest uploads, with Shorts and long videos apart. Add your RPM and you get the money a day, a month and a year.
Here's how YouTube pays creators, where to find your RPM, and how to estimate any channel's earnings.
What is a YouTube money calculator?
A YouTube money calculator is a tool that estimates what YouTube views earn from ads, by multiplying the views by an RPM.
RPM means revenue per 1,000 views: what the creator keeps for every 1,000 views, after YouTube's share.
How to use the YouTube money calculator
No RPM yet? The calculator shows the same views at 4 RPMs, so you see the range before you look yours up.
How YouTube pays creators
YouTube shares the money from ads with creators in the YouTube Partner Program. The shares are YouTube's own, from its help page on partner earnings (read September 26, 2026):
| Where the ad runs | The creator's share |
|---|---|
 Long videos, on the watch page | 55% of the net ad revenue |
| Shorts, in the Shorts feed | 45% of the revenue a creator is allocated from the Shorts Creator Pool |
A Short with music pays the music's owners first. With 1 track, half of that Short's revenue goes to music licensing, per YouTube's Shorts rules.
Where to find your RPM
Your RPM is in YouTube Studio, under Analytics and then Revenue.
It moves with where your viewers live, your niche, the time of year and how many of your views show an ad. That's why this calculator asks for yours instead of guessing it.
RPM or CPM?
CPM is what advertisers pay for 1,000 ads, before YouTube's share. RPM is what you keep per 1,000 views, after it, counting the views that show no ad.
Know your CPM but not your RPM? Pick CPM, add the share of your views that show an ad, and the calculator works out the RPM with YouTube's share.
Estimate any channel's earnings
Paste any public channel and the calculator reads the views of its latest uploads from YouTube's public feed.
It splits long videos from Shorts, since the two earn at very different rates. The views a day come from the latest uploads only, so a channel with a big back catalog earns more than this shows.
Paste a single video and you also see what that video has earned so far at your RPM.
Plan a goal
Pick Plan a goal, type what you want to earn a day, a month or a year, and add your RPM. You get the views a day and a month it takes.
Ads are only part of it
Ads are one income stream. Sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and your own products can earn more than ads.
For the full list, read how to make money online as a content creator.
Who is the YouTube money calculator for?
It's for YouTubers, and anyone curious what a channel earns:
- YouTube Shorts money calculator – creators who post Shorts
- YouTube watch time calculator – channels working toward the Partner Program
- Podcast sponsorship calculator – creators pricing a sponsor
- How to make money online – creators earning beyond ads
Every other tool is on my free tools page.
YouTube Money Calculator FAQs
Questions about what YouTube pays? Here's what to know.
A YouTube money calculator is a tool that estimates what YouTube views earn from ads, by multiplying the views by an RPM.
This one reads a channel's or video's real views from a link and shows the money a day, a month and a year.
YouTube doesn't pay a fixed amount per 1,000 views.
What you keep is your RPM, which moves with your viewers' countries, your niche, the season and how many views show an ad.
Your own RPM is in YouTube Studio under Analytics, then Revenue.
A YouTube video makes its views times your RPM, divided by 1,000.
Paste a video's link into the YouTube money calculator and add your RPM to see what it has earned so far.
YouTube pays creators 55% of the net revenue from ads on their long videos' watch pages.
On Shorts, creators keep 45% of the revenue they're allocated from the Shorts Creator Pool.
Yes, paste any public channel and the YouTube money calculator reads its latest uploads' views.
You won't know that channel's RPM, so compare the ladder of 4 RPMs it shows to see the likely range.
Yes, pick Shorts and use your Shorts RPM, which is usually much lower than on long videos.
For more on how Shorts pay, use the YouTube Shorts money calculator.
Yes, the YouTube money calculator is free, with no sign-up.
The numbers you type stay in your browser.
The YouTube money calculator is for creators planning their income, and for brands and agencies sizing up a channel before a deal.
It's also for anyone curious about what a video earns.
To see when your channel reaches the YouTube Partner Program, use the YouTube watch time calculator.
To get the key points of any video, use the YouTube video summarizer.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the YouTube money calculator as one of my free tools on navid.me.
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