YouTube Money Checker

Free extension for Chrome

How much does a YouTube channel make?

Open any channel and see its estimated monthly earnings as a range, right next to the subscriber count. YouTube Money Checker works it out from recent views, the channel's niche and typical CPM rates. No account, no numbers to type in.

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Also works in Edge, Brave, Opera and other Chromium browsers on desktop.

The estimate badge from a YouTube channel page and the YouTube Money Checker popup with a sample range of $1.2K – $3.4K per month

At a glance

What it does
Shows an estimated monthly ad-revenue range in US dollars, such as $1.2K – $3.4K /mo, next to the subscriber count on any YouTube channel page.
Who it is for
Viewers curious about creator income, creators comparing their niche, marketers pricing a sponsorship, journalists who need a ballpark.
Price
Free. No account, no paid version.
Data
Calculated in your browser from what the channel page already shows. No analytics, no servers, nothing is sent anywhere.
Works in
YouTube channel pages in Chrome and other Chromium browsers on desktop. Not in the YouTube apps, Firefox or Safari.
Limits
An estimate of ad revenue only, not actual income. Leaves out sponsorships, memberships and merch, and does not check monetization status.
Version
2.6.0, updated October 23, 2026

Three steps to a channel's estimate

  1. 1

    Add it to Chrome

    One click on the Chrome Web Store. No account, nothing to set up.

  2. 2

    Open a channel

    Any channel page: an @handle, /channel/, /c/ or /user/ address.

  3. 3

    Read the range

    A green badge appears beside the subscriber and video counts: a low and a high monthly figure, and the niche when it is recognised.

Why people check channel earnings

CPM

Sizing up a niche

Thinking of starting a channel? Compare channels in finance, gaming or cooking and see how views and ad rates add up in each.

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Pricing a sponsorship

Get a sense of a channel's scale before you write to it about a sponsored video, without leaving YouTube.

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Plain curiosity

Find out roughly what your favourite creators earn from ads, and how far apart the low and high ends are.

What it does

  • A range, not a guess

    A low and a high figure per month, with a range bar between them. Never one made-up number.

  • Niche CPM rates

    The channel's keywords and description decide its niche, from finance and tech to gaming and music. Each niche has its own CPM range.

  • Monthly views from recent videos

    Views, upload dates and lengths of the recent videos on the page. The highest and lowest are trimmed, so one hit doesn't skew it.

  • Shorts counted apart

    Shorts pay far less per view than long videos, so they are counted separately at a much lower rate.

  • Time of year

    Advertisers pay more before the holidays and less at the start of the year. The estimate follows the quarter.

  • network requests

    Everything is counted on your computer. Channels you have just opened are remembered for 10 minutes, so going back is instant.

How much YouTube pays per 1,000 views

Advertisers pay YouTube per thousand ad views; that price is the CPM. It depends on the niche: finance and business pay many times more than music or comedy. The creator keeps 55% of the ad revenue, and many views earn nothing at all, because of ad blockers or because no ad was shown.

YouTube Money Checker puts these pieces together. It estimates a month of views from the channel's recent videos, takes the CPM range for the channel's niche, applies the creator's share, a factor for views without ads, the season and a lower rate for channels that are not family-friendly, and adds Shorts at about $0.04 per 1,000 views. In this model a long video earns from under $1 to over $10 per 1,000 views, depending on the niche.

Private by design

  • No account

    Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.

  • No tracking

    No analytics, no ads, no servers of its own. The channels you open stay between you and YouTube.

  • Three permissions

    Storage, to remember whether the badge is on. Tabs, to show or hide it in open YouTube tabs when you flip the switch. YouTube pages, to read a channel's public details. It runs on no other site.

Doing the math yourself vs YouTube Money Checker

Doing the math yourself vs YouTube Money CheckerBy handYouTube Money Checker
Monthly viewsAdd up the views and upload dates of recent videos yourselfRead from the videos on the page, highest and lowest trimmed
Ad rateLook up a CPM for the niche and pick oneNiche detected from keywords and description, with its CPM range
ShortsEasy to mix in with long videosCounted separately at a much lower rate
ResultOne number that looks more certain than it isA low–high monthly range, labelled as an estimate
Time per channelSeveral minutes with a calculatorAppears when the channel page loads

Questions

How do I check how much a YouTube channel earns?

Add YouTube Money Checker to Chrome and open the channel. Its estimated monthly earnings appear next to the subscriber count as a range, such as $1.2K – $3.4K /mo.

Is this the channel's actual income?

No. It is an estimate of ad revenue built from public data and average rates. Actual income depends on things only the creator can see, such as their real CPM and where their audience lives.

How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?

It depends on the niche. In the extension's model a long video earns from under $1 per 1,000 views in music to over $10 in finance, after YouTube's share. Shorts earn about $0.04.

Does it count sponsorships, memberships or merch?

No. It models ad revenue only. Sponsored videos, channel memberships, merchandise and other income are not included.

Can it tell whether a channel is monetized?

No. It does not know a channel's monetization status and does not show private YouTube Analytics data.

Why is there no badge on a channel?

The estimate needs the channel's recent videos on the page. New or very quiet channels may not have enough of them. The badge also stays hidden while the switch in the popup is off.

Is it free? Does it collect data?

It is free. It has no account and no analytics, and it makes no network requests: everything is calculated in your browser.

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