Google's YouTube Data API v3 gives a default project a dedicated bucket of 100 videos.insert calls/day, separate from a 10,000-unit general pool for everything else. This calculator applies that real, current quota model — not the older, now-obsolete 1,600-unit formula most other calculators still use.
Google's default is 100 calls/day, in its own dedicated bucket separate from the general pool. Raise this only if you've been granted a quota extension for this specific bucket.
Google's default is 10,000 units/day. Covers every operation other than videos.insert and search.list.
Per-video operations after upload (each draws from the general pool)
videos.insert costs 1 unit, drawn from its own 100/day bucket
100
upload bucket ÷ 1
50 units/video from the toggles above
200
general pool ÷ units per video
bound by the upload bucket
100
min(upload-bucket ceiling, general-pool ceiling)
Since a June 2026 revision, videos.insert and search.list each draw from their own dedicated 100-calls/day bucket rather than the shared 10,000-unit general pool — so the old rule of thumb (10,000 ÷ ~1,600 units ≈ 6 uploads/day) no longer applies. A default project can upload up to 100 videos/day regardless of length or whether they're Shorts (no Shorts-specific quota discount or penalty is documented), as long as the general pool has enough units left for whatever you do to each video afterward. A quota increase is requested through Google's own Quota extension request form; it is not confirmed whether the two dedicated buckets can be raised independently of each other or of the general pool.
With the default 100-call upload bucket and 10,000-unit general pool, setting a thumbnail (50 units) on every video allows up to 200 videos from the general pool alone — but the 100-call upload bucket is the binding constraint, so the real ceiling is 100 videos/day.
That is 150 units/video from the general pool; 10,000 ÷ 150 = 66 videos from the general pool alone — now LOWER than the 100-call upload bucket, so the general pool becomes the binding constraint at 66 videos/day.
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