Type your subscriber count, valid watch hours and Shorts views. The page checks both YPP pathways, factors in your country, and prints a one-line verdict with the exact gap remaining.
Subscribers, watch hours, Shorts views, and country — both monetization paths checked at once.
Long-form thresholds and Shorts thresholds are checked side by side, so a channel growing on either format gets the right verdict on the first try.
When you are short on subs, hours or Shorts views, the card prints the precise number you still need rather than a vague almost-there message.
Pick your country from the picker. Regions that cannot yet accept AdSense payouts are flagged before the math even runs, saving a frustrating dead end later.
No login, no API call, no logging. Every number stays in your tab, so a brand new channel can run the check without any account at all.
Tick the helper and the card estimates how many weeks of your current growth pace stand between you and the threshold, useful for planning a target launch month.
Green, amber, or red, each with a short sentence the channel owner can paste into a planning doc without translating jargon.
Both YPP paths checked — long-form and Shorts — in parallel.
Subs, watch hours (last 365 days), Shorts views (last 90 days), and country — four inputs feed both paths.
The long-form gate (1k subs + 4k hours) and the Shorts gate (1k subs + 10M views) both compute in parallel.
Green if either path is met. Amber with the exact gap if you are within reach. Red if multi-line targets remain.
The Partner Program defines two ways in. A long-form channel needs one thousand subscribers and four thousand valid public watch hours over the last three hundred and sixty-five days. A Shorts channel needs one thousand subscribers and ten million Shorts views over the last ninety days. The checker tests both, so a Shorts-first channel never gets nudged toward an irrelevant watch-hour number and a long-form channel never gets pushed into a Shorts target that does not fit the format.
Most checkers say almost there and stop. This one prints the exact number to close. Two hundred and seventy-three subscribers short. Eight hundred and forty watch hours to go. Three point two million Shorts views remaining. A specific gap is something you can plan a month around. A vague nudge is just a feel-good message that wastes attention.
Hitting the threshold means nothing if the channel sits in a country where AdSense cannot send a payout. The picker lists the eligible regions and flags the rest before the math runs, so the verdict you read is the verdict you can act on. A channel in a not-yet-supported country still sees the gap numbers, but it sees them next to a clear note about the regional gate.
The checker does not call YouTube, does not call AdSense, does not call our backend, does not write a log line. Your subscriber count, your watch hours, your Shorts views and your country sit inside your own browser. Close the tab and the data is gone. A creator deciding whether to even apply for monetization should not have to hand over channel numbers to a third party just to read the thresholds.
Valid public watch time on long-form videos over a rolling three hundred and sixty-five day window. Shorts, deleted videos, unlisted clips and watch time on videos with monetization off are excluded from the pool.
YouTube introduced the Shorts pathway so vertical-format creators were not locked out. Ten million views over ninety days is a hefty number, but it suits the volume of a Shorts-first channel that posts every day.
Eligibility requires both YPP rollout and an AdSense payout pipeline in the country. A channel in an unsupported region can still grow, but joining the program will need to wait for an expansion.
Active Community Guideline or copyright strikes block monetization, sometimes for months. The numeric thresholds are necessary but not sufficient. A clean record matters as much as the count.
Tests your subscribers and watch hours against the one thousand and four thousand thresholds. Returns green, amber or red with the gap printed.
Tests your subscribers and Shorts views against the one thousand and ten million thresholds. The Shorts gap is shown in millions for readability.
Pick your country and the page tells you whether YPP and AdSense are live there before running the math, so a not-yet-supported region is flagged up front.
Amber and red verdicts always include the exact missing number, never a vague almost-there phrase, so the channel owner has a concrete target.
Tick the optional cadence helper and the card estimates how many weeks at your current growth rate stand between today and the threshold.
Beyond the numbers, the card lists the AdSense link, strike-free record and monetization policy checks that still apply even after the count is met.
Nothing is stored, logged, shared or sent. Even the country picker stays in the browser session. Refresh the tab and every input clears.
| What you actually want to do | Paid tools / guessing | This checker |
|---|---|---|
| Checks both YPP pathways in one pass | Long-form only | Long-form plus Shorts |
| Prints the exact gap to close | Almost there only | Precise gap numbers |
| Country gate is part of the verdict | Ignored | Flagged up front |
| Runs without an account or sign-in | Login required | Open the page, type, done |
| All numbers stay on your device | Submitted to a server | Pure browser math |
| Cost | Paid plan or hidden upsell | Free, forever |
A clear gap number turns a fuzzy goal into a quarterly plan. Hitting the long-form path becomes a target number of watch hours per week, not a vague hope.
Drop in three numbers per channel and the verdict card surfaces which one is closest, which is amber, and which still needs months of work. Useful for portfolio reviews.
Open the page in front of a class and the YPP rules become concrete, not lore. Students can plug their own numbers and see exactly where they stand.
A no-login, browser-only tool means data sources stay private when investigating creator growth and monetization access for stories.
A non-technical helper can paste the three numbers and read out the verdict, without setting up an account, signing in or installing anything.
Five clean stages between your three numbers and the verdict card.
Subscriber count, watch hours over the last twelve months, Shorts views over the last ninety days, country. All four sit inside the form on the page.
If the country is not yet supported by YPP and AdSense, the calculator still computes the numeric gap but flags the regional issue in the verdict card.
Long-form math compares subs and hours against one thousand and four thousand. Shorts math compares subs and views against one thousand and ten million.
Green if either path is met, amber if you are within the catching-up band on at least one path, red otherwise. The closer path always gets the spotlight.
Verdict, exact gap, optional cadence projection, and the list of non-numeric policy gates that still apply after the count is met.
A creator in an unsupported region can still grow a channel, but a payout pipeline will need to wait. Use the picker to see your own region’s status alongside the verdict.
Eligible regions include United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Japan, and more. If your country is on the eligible list, the only blockers on the way to monetization are the numeric thresholds and the policy gates.
Not yet supported regions include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar. The numeric thresholds are still useful to track because the rollout map updates over time, but the payout pipeline is not currently open for these regions.
The picker on the form above reflects the same eligibility map and updates the verdict card automatically when you switch countries.
Set up the AdSense account in the same legal name as the channel owner, and confirm the linked email matches the Google account on YouTube Studio.
The application screen will reject a Google account that is not on 2-step. Turn it on a week early to leave room for backup codes.
Remove or unlist any uploads that lean on third-party clips or recycled content. Reused material is the single biggest reason applications get bounced.
Skim the advertiser-friendly content guide and the channel monetization policies the day before applying. Saves a frustrating denial over something easy to fix.
“We used it to run a quarterly health check across the eight channels our agency manages. Saves a clunky spreadsheet, gives the team the gap to close per channel in plain language.”
“I was forty-seven subscribers off the long-form path. The card said it in one line, I focused that week, applied the following Monday.”
“Teaching a creator-economy module at a community college and this is now the demo I open with. No login, no spinner, just the thresholds being honest with the room.”
The checker treats each YPP path as a pair of gates. The first gate is the subscriber count, the second is either valid public watch hours or Shorts views depending on the path. A path is green only when both of its gates clear the target number. A path is amber when at least one gate is inside a thirty-five percent catching-up band and no gate is below that band. A path is red when at least one gate is more than thirty-five percent off the target.
The overall verdict is the better of the two paths. Either path going green produces a green overall verdict because YouTube accepts an applicant who clears either route. The closer of the two amber paths is highlighted so the channel owner knows where to focus the next quarter’s effort.
The cadence projection assumes a baseline pace of fifty new subscribers a week, two hundred new watch hours a week, and a quarter of a million new Shorts views a week. These are deliberately conservative placeholder paces, useful as a sanity check rather than a precise forecast. A channel that grows faster will reach the threshold sooner than the projection shows. A channel that grows slower will need more time. The projection is a directional tool, not a guarantee.
The country gate sits outside the numeric math. A region that is not yet supported by the Partner Program and AdSense does not change the count, but it does change the verdict tone, because numerical eligibility does not translate into a payout until the regional gate opens. The picker above reflects the current published eligibility list, and the verdict card prints the regional status alongside the count results.
Free, open thresholds, no login. The checker is built for creators preparing a YPP application and managers running quarterly health checks across multiple channels.
Run a small gaming channel — used the revenue calculator and SEO analyzer the same week. The SEO tool flagged that my titles were under-optimized. Renamed three videos, saw views jump 40% over the next 30 days.
Monetization checker confirmed my channel met all the policies before I applied. Saved me an awkward rejection from YouTube. Worth its weight.
Shorts revenue calculator gave me an honest range — small for new shorts, real for proven ones. Other tools just hype the number to make creators dream.
Video lifecycle analyzer changed how I plan content. Showed me how my old videos still pulled views years later. Started making more evergreen pieces because of that data.
Solid toolkit. Would love the retention-rate estimator to factor in audience age more carefully, but the data is still very useful for content tweaks.
Cross-platform agency here. We use the revenue calculator for client budget conversations. The estimates land within reasonable margins of actual reported earnings.
SEO analyzer pointed out that my video descriptions were missing keywords the title implied. Quick fix, real impact on impressions.
Money calculator gave a defensible number for a sponsor pitch. Got the deal. The platform stopped paying me as well last year so external estimators matter now.
Useful suite. Would love a "compare two videos" mode for the SEO analyzer, but the single-video analysis is already detailed.
Retention-rate estimator helped me see why a specific video underperformed. Hooks dropping at the 8-second mark. Re-edited and republished, doubled retention.
Monetization checker is honest — told me my new channel was not eligible yet and exactly which criteria I was missing. Better than YouTube's own opaque process.
No paywall. No upsell. Free YouTube tools that actually give real numbers. Filipino creators thank you.