YouTube
Monetization Checker

To join the YouTube Partner Program you need 1,000 subscribers AND either 4,000 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million valid public Shorts views in the last 90 days. You also need no active Community Guidelines strikes, a linked AdSense account, 2-Step Verification, and to live in a region where the program is available.

It checks the one requirement that's public: the 1,000-subscriber threshold, read live from the YouTube Data API. Watch hours, Shorts views, strikes, AdSense status and region are private and only visible to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, so the tool lists them as a checklist instead of pretending to confirm them.

No. The Money Calculator estimates how much ad revenue a channel might earn. The Monetization Checker is about eligibility, whether a channel qualifies to turn monetization on in the first place. Different questions, different tools.

Open YouTube Studio, go to Earn (or Analytics, then Overview), and you'll see your progress toward the 4,000 public watch hours or 10M Shorts views. These figures aren't exposed publicly, so no third-party tool can read them for you.

Yes. Since 2023 YouTube also offers an earlier on-ramp (fan funding features like Super Thanks, channel memberships and Shopping) at lower thresholds in eligible countries, before full ad-revenue sharing. Full ad monetization still needs the 1,000-subscriber + watch-hour/Shorts thresholds.

Completely free, no sign-up, no limits. Check any public channel as many times as you like.