YouTube Money Calculator
Paste a channel name or link into this YouTube money calculator. It returns a low-to-high earnings range from public views. The figure is an estimate, not YouTube Studio.
Estimate only, in USD, before tax. Sponsorships, memberships, and merchandise are not included. Actual ad revenue can be zero.
What this YouTube money calculator shows
A YouTube money calculator answers a planning question: if this many views were paid at a rate you choose, what range of ad money is that? People search it when they want a channel's earnings, a video's earnings, or a rough check before they film. The useful version starts from a real view count, not from an empty slider.
This page looks up the channel you name. It shows the channel title, picture, subscriber count, total public views, public video count, and the date the channel was created. Under that identity it shows a low and a high dollar range. The two rates start at $1 and $5 per 1,000 views. You can change either number, or pick a niche band that only fills those boxes.
The same YouTube money calculator also accepts an @handle or a youtube.com channel link. A watch link or Shorts link is priced as that one video, and the result says so. Nothing here logs into YouTube, and nothing downloads the video.
How the YouTube money calculator builds the range
The math is the same one public estimators publish. Take the view count, divide by 1,000, and multiply by RPM. RPM means revenue per mille: dollars the creator might keep for every 1,000 views. A low RPM and a high RPM produce the range. Example: 100,000 views at $1 to $5 is $100 to $500.
YouTube's public channel total is a lifetime view count, which is a poor stand-in for this month. So the page offers two starting points. Recent uploads takes the median views of the last 15 videos and multiplies it by how often the channel posts. Lifetime average spreads total views over the channel's age. Neither is the last 30 days, so the views box stays editable: type the number from YouTube Studio when you have it.
Daily earnings are the monthly estimate divided by 30. Yearly earnings are the daily estimate times 365. All three move together when you edit RPM or the views.
Planning RPM by niche
Niche presets use these bands. They are published planning ranges, not a measurement of the channel you typed. Country, season, video length, and how many views actually saw an ad move the real number.
| Niche | Low RPM | High RPM | At 100,000 views |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | $1.00 | $5.00 | $100 – $500 |
| Gaming | $1.50 | $3.50 | $150 – $350 |
| Entertainment | $3.00 | $6.00 | $300 – $600 |
| Education | $4.00 | $8.00 | $400 – $800 |
| Tech | $4.00 | $8.00 | $400 – $800 |
| Finance | $10.00 | $20.00 | $1,000 – $2,000 |
RPM, CPM, and the 45 percent cut
Advertisers pay a CPM for 1,000 ad impressions. YouTube then keeps a share that creators usually describe as about 45 percent, so the creator keeps about 55 percent of ad revenue. Many views never play an ad at all, because of ad blockers, YouTube Premium, or a video that is too short to monetize. RPM folds that reality into one number: creator revenue divided by all views, times 1,000.
If you type a Studio RPM into this YouTube money calculator, leave it as RPM. Subtracting 45 percent a second time will cut the estimate almost in half for no reason. Use a CPM only if you also account for YouTube's share and for views that were not monetized. The default $1 to $5 band is already written as RPM.
Some older estimators apply about $0.25 to $4 per 1,000 views to each day's new views. That band is a different job. It needs a stored history of yesterday's view count, which this site does not keep. An editable monthly views box is the honest version of the same idea.
What a channel-name lookup cannot know
Searching a channel name is the usual way people ask a YouTube money calculator "how much does this channel make?" The lookup returns the closest public channel and puts the name above the money, so a wrong match is obvious. It does not return a bank balance.
Sponsorships, affiliate links, merchandise, memberships, and Super Chat are not in the view count. A finance channel's brand deal can be larger than its ads. A Shorts-heavy channel can have a huge view count and a much smaller RPM than a long video. The range on this page is an ad-style model only.
Audience country matters too. A US finance audience and an India entertainment audience should not share one RPM. Change the two rate boxes when you know the audience. If you are checking your own channel, open YouTube Studio, read the RPM and the last 28 days of views, and type those in. That is the closest this YouTube money calculator gets to a real month.
How to use the YouTube money calculator
- Paste a channel. A name, @handle, channel URL, or video link all work. One at a time.
- Check the match. Look at the name, subscribers, and view count before you trust the dollars.
- Set the rate. Keep $1 to $5, pick a niche, or type the RPM from your own Studio.
- Copy the estimate. The copy includes the channel name and the range, and it stays on this page.
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YouTube money calculator questions
Straight answers about the estimate, the rate, and what public data leaves out.