YouTube Earnings Calculator
Estimate what a video or a month of uploads could earn, using RPM ranges by niche and audience country rather than a single global average.
RPM data checked 2026-09-05
Read this before you trust any number
Ad revenue depends on three things this calculator can model — how many people watch, what your videos are about, and where those viewers live — and several it cannot: the season, your watch time, whether your content is advertiser-friendly, and how many mid-rolls a video can carry. So the output is a range, and the honest use of it is comparison rather than prediction.
Niche matters more than views
A finance channel with 50,000 monthly views can out-earn an entertainment channel with 400,000, because advertisers pay far more to reach someone researching a mortgage than someone watching a compilation. If you are still choosing a niche, this is the single biggest lever you will ever pull.
Audience country is the second lever
The same video earns several times more from a US audience than from a South Asian one, simply because of what local advertisers pay. This is not a reason to avoid those audiences — reach is easier and cheaper there — but it does mean a view count alone tells you very little about income.
Where this fits with cost
Revenue is only half the picture. Put this figure next to what your production stack costs each month, because a premium stack can quietly cost more per video than a small channel earns from it.
Common questions
Why is the estimate a range rather than one number?
Because earnings genuinely are a range. The same video in the same niche can pay twice as much in November as in January, and audience country moves it further still. Any calculator that gives you a single confident figure is guessing and hiding it.
What is the difference between CPM and RPM?
CPM is what advertisers pay per thousand ad impressions, before YouTube takes its share. RPM is what actually lands in your account per thousand video views, after the split and after unmonetized views. This calculator uses RPM, because that is the number you can spend.
Why are only some views monetized?
Ad blockers, viewers who skip before an ad plays, and videos limited by advertiser suitability all reduce the share. This tool assumes roughly 55 per cent of views are monetized, which is a common real-world figure.
Does this include sponsorships and affiliate income?
No. This is ad revenue only. For most channels past their first year, sponsorships and affiliate income together exceed ad revenue — so treat this as the floor, not the ceiling.