--- title: "YouTube Money Calculator: Estimate Ad Earnings" url: "https://lookvalid.com/tools/youtube-money-calculator.md" canonical_url: "https://lookvalid.com/tools/youtube-money-calculator" last_updated: "2026-10-19" type: "tool" summary: "Free YouTube money calculator. Enter daily or monthly views and a low and high RPM to see an ad revenue range per day, month and year." related: ["https://lookvalid.com/docs/api/link-in-bio-lookup.md"] --- # YouTube Money Calculator: Estimate Ad Earnings Free YouTube money calculator. Enter daily or monthly views and a low and high RPM to see an ad revenue range per day, month and year. Enter your views and a low and a high RPM, the revenue per thousand views, and see the ad earnings range for a day, a month and a year. ## Facts - Free, no account needed. All the arithmetic happens inside your browser. No input leaves it and none is saved. - Related API product: [link-in-bio-lookup](https://lookvalid.com/docs/api/link-in-bio-lookup.md), 3 credits through the API. ## How it works 1. Enter your views and choose whether they are daily or monthly. 2. Enter a low and a high RPM. Your own figures from YouTube Studio are best. 3. Read the earnings range per day, month and year, with the formula under it. ## Example result 10,000 daily views, RPM 1.25 to 4.50 Captured 2026-10-19. - Per day: $12.50 to $45.00 - Per month: $380 to $1,369 - Per year: $4,563 to $16,425 ## The formula Earnings = views / 1,000 x RPM, worked out once with your low RPM and once with your high RPM. The result is a range, not one number. A month is 365 / 12 days and a year is 365 days. If you enter monthly views, the calculator divides them by 365 / 12 to get daily views first. ## What this estimate covers It covers ad revenue only. It is an estimate built from the two RPM values you enter. LookValid is not connected to YouTube, so it never sees your channel or your real earnings. Sponsorships, memberships, merchandise and affiliate income are not in the number. ## When ad revenue starts According to YouTube Help, a channel needs 1,000 subscribers and then one of two usage thresholds: 4,000 eligible watch hours on long form videos across the past year, or 10 million eligible Shorts views across the past three months. Other requirements apply, and the list changes, so check the page below before you plan around it. ## Choosing an RPM RPM is revenue per thousand views, counted after YouTube takes its share. It differs from CPM, which is what advertisers pay per thousand ad impressions. The starting values of 1.25 and 4.50 are only a wide range to begin from. Replace them with the RPM your own channel reports. A channel can see very different RPMs by topic, audience country, video length and season, so a low and high pair is more honest than a single figure. ## Terms used on this page | Term | Formula | What it means | | --- | --- | --- | | RPM | revenue / views x 1,000 | What a channel earned for every thousand views | | CPM | cost / impressions x 1,000 | What an advertiser paid for every thousand ad impressions | | Month | 365 / 12 days | Days used to turn daily views into a month | | Year | 365 days | Days used to turn daily views into a year | ## Sources - [YouTube Help: YouTube Partner Program overview and eligibility](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857), read 2026-10-19 ## Questions ### What can a channel expect to earn from a thousand views? It varies from channel to channel. The RPM in your own YouTube Studio reports is the figure to trust. Enter a low and a high value here and the calculator shows the range between them. ### Which number goes in the box, RPM or CPM? RPM, the creator side. It is earnings per thousand views after YouTube takes its share. CPM is the advertiser side, the price paid per thousand ad impressions, and it is a different number. ### Does this include sponsorships or memberships? No. It covers ad revenue only, and only as an estimate from the two RPM values you enter. ### Why does the calculator reject my RPM values? The low RPM has to be less than or equal to the high RPM. Swap them and the range appears. ### Does it connect to my channel? No. LookValid is not connected to YouTube. The calculator works only from the numbers you type, in your browser. ## Related - [Link-in-Bio Lookup reference](https://lookvalid.com/docs/api/link-in-bio-lookup.md)