How much does YouTube pay for your views?

Enter your views and pick a period of a day, month, or year — month is the default, since that’s how most creators think about income. Choose a format next: long-form, Shorts, or both, and if you pick both, a slider lets you set what share of views are Shorts, since the two pay through completely different systems.

Below that sits a checkbox for anyone who already knows their real RPM from YouTube Studio. Turn it on and the niche, season, and geography inputs disappear, replaced by a single field for your actual number — at that point this stops being a market estimate and just multiplies your real RPM by your views.

Without a known RPM, pick the content niche from a row of buttons, then a season toggle for whether these views are a typical month or sit in the October-December stretch, when advertiser demand usually pushes rates higher. A geography slider sets what share of views come from higher-ad-demand markets — the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Nordics — one of the two strongest inputs here alongside niche. 100,000 monthly views in the Tech niche with half the audience from those markets lands between $360 and $1,100; push that same audience to 100% top-tier and the range moves to $480–$1,400.

The result is a range, never a single number, shown as a bar with just the low and high ends marked — no claimed “typical” point in between, since that would need real distribution data we don’t have. Underneath, a breakdown called Range Anatomy shows exactly how much of that spread comes from niche versus geography, calculated directly from the two multipliers rather than a guess at which input feels more important.

A line under the result marks this as ad revenue only — sponsorships, memberships, and Super Thanks aren’t counted, and for a lot of channels those add up to more than the ads do. Below that, a button reveals a reverse calculator: type a monthly income target and it works backward through the same range to show roughly how many views that would take at the current settings.

Nothing entered here is sent anywhere — the whole calculation runs in the browser. The niche and season figures are industry benchmarks last checked in August 2026, not a guarantee for any specific channel.