Estimate how much any YouTube channel earns - daily, monthly & yearly. Real RPM & CPM rates adjusted by country, niche & video length. Free, no sign-up.
Drop any YouTube URL, @handle, or channel name. We auto-fetch subscribers, recent views, upload cadence & average video length.
RPM varies 5-10× by niche and 3-5× by country. Tell us where the audience is and what the channel makes for an accurate dollar figure.
See low / avg / high earnings ranges for daily, monthly, yearly & lifetime - plus every multiplier used to build the estimate.
YouSEO's YouTube Money Calculator estimates how much any YouTube channel earns from ads - daily, monthly, yearly, and over its lifetime. Unlike basic "views × $1" calculators, ours pulls the channel's actual recent view performance and applies real RPM rates adjusted for audience country, content niche, video length, and the time of year.
Whether you're curious how much MrBeast, MKBHD or Ali Abdaal earns - or you're a creator wondering what you'll make at 10K, 100K or 1M subscribers - the calculator returns a low/avg/high earnings range you can trust. It's the same kind of model used by media analysts, just made free for every creator.
Drop any YouTube URL, @handle, or channel name into the input box.
Tell us where the audience is and what the channel makes - RPM varies hugely.
YouSEO pulls recent views, upload cadence, and average video length automatically.
Get daily, monthly & yearly ranges plus every multiplier applied to the estimate.
RPM (Revenue Per Mille) is the dollar amount creators actually receive per 1,000 video views after YouTube's 45% cut. It's the single biggest factor in how much a channel earns. Here are the latest RPM ranges by niche, based on YouSEO's aggregated dataset of 280,000+ monetized channels:
| Niche | Low RPM | Avg RPM | High RPM | Per 1M Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance & Crypto | $12 | $18 | $25 | $18,000 |
| Business & B2B | $8 | $14 | $22 | $14,000 |
| Tech & Reviews | $5 | $8 | $14 | $8,000 |
| Education | $4 | $7 | $12 | $7,000 |
| Beauty & Fashion | $3 | $5 | $9 | $5,000 |
| Fitness & Health | $3 | $5 | $8 | $5,000 |
| Food & Cooking | $2.50 | $4.50 | $7 | $4,500 |
| Travel & Lifestyle | $2 | $3.50 | $6 | $3,500 |
| Gaming | $1.50 | $2.80 | $5 | $2,800 |
| Entertainment / Vlogs | $1 | $2.20 | $4 | $2,200 |
| Music | $0.80 | $1.50 | $3 | $1,500 |
| Shorts (any niche) | $0.04 | $0.06 | $0.08 | $60 |
Country also matters. A US-based audience earns roughly 3-5× more per view than an Indian or Brazilian audience. The calculator applies a country multiplier automatically - Tier-1 (US/UK/CA/AU/DE) at 1.0-1.3×, Tier-2 (Western Europe, Japan, Korea) at 0.7-0.9×, Tier-3 (India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico) at 0.25-0.45×.
This is the question every new creator obsesses over. The honest answer: subscribers don't pay you - views do. A 10K-subscriber channel with strong watch time can out-earn a 100K channel with stale uploads. That said, here are realistic earning brackets for an average US-based tech/education channel uploading weekly:
Want the real number for your channel? Paste your URL above - the calculator uses your actual view performance, not a generic per-subscriber average.
The estimate above covers YouTube ad revenue only - the money YouTube pays creators directly through AdSense. In reality, most established channels earn 2-5× their ad revenue from sources off-platform. Here's the full picture of how YouTubers actually make money:
YouTubers earn between $1 and $8 per 1,000 monetized views on average. High-CPM niches like finance and B2B can reach $15-$50 RPM, while entertainment often sits at $0.50-$4. Shorts pay far less - $0.04-$0.08 per 1,000 views.
The YouSEO Money Calculator applies these real RPM ranges automatically based on the channel you enter, so you don't need to guess.
A channel with 10K subs averaging 50K views/month earns roughly $150-$400/month. At 100K subs and 1M views/month, expect $3,000-$8,000/month. At 1M subs with 10M views/month, earnings typically range $30,000-$80,000/month from ads alone.
Subscribers don't pay you - views do - so the calculator weights estimates by recent view performance, not raw sub count.
CPM (Cost Per Mille) is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions. RPM (Revenue Per Mille) is what you actually earn per 1,000 video views - after YouTube's 45% cut and counting unmonetized views. RPM is always lower than CPM.
YouSEO uses RPM in all estimates because it reflects real creator payouts.
The calculator returns a low, average and high range based on publicly available view counts, audience-country distributions and niche RPM benchmarks. Actual earnings depend on factors only the creator can see (mid-roll density, sponsorship deals, memberships).
Estimates are typically within ±20% of real ad revenue for fully monetized channels - and for high-traffic creators like MrBeast or MKBHD, the public data is rich enough to land even closer.
Yes for Shorts (using the lower $0.04-$0.08 Shorts RPM). The default estimate covers ad revenue only - sponsorships, channel memberships, Super Chats, merch and affiliate income are not included because they aren't visible from public data.
Most established creators earn 2-5× their ad revenue from these off-platform sources.
Most free calculators use a single flat RPM (usually $1.50) and multiply by total views. That's wildly inaccurate. YouSEO uses niche-specific RPM × country multiplier × content-type multiplier × seasonality, then applies it to recent 90-day views rather than lifetime views (which include years of unmonetized content).
The result is closer to what creators actually report in interviews and 1099s.
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