YouTube Data API (v3) - Quota Calculator

The table below shows the quota cost for calling each API method. All API requests, including invalid requests, incur a quota cost of at least one point.

The following two points are worth calling out as they both affect your quota usage:

  • If your application calls a method, such as search.list, that returns multiple pages of results, each request to retrieve an additional page of results incurs the estimated quota cost.
  • YouTube Live Streaming API methods are, technically, part of the YouTube Data API, and calls to those methods also incur quota costs. As such, API methods for live streaming are also listed in the table.
  • Quota costs
    resource method cost

    activities

    list 1

    captions

    list 50
      insert 400
      update 450
      delete 50

    channelBanners

    insert 50

    channels

    list 1
      update 50

    channelSections

    list 1
      insert 50
      update 50
      delete 50

    comments

    list 1
      insert 50
      update 50
      setModerationStatus 50
      delete 50

    commentThreads

    list 1
      insert 50
      update 50

    guideCategories

    list 1

    i18nLanguages

    list 1

    i18nRegions

    list 1

    members

    list 1

    membershipsLevels

    list 1

    playlistItems

    list 1
      insert 50
      update 50
      delete 50

    playlists

    list 1
      insert 50
      update 50
      delete 50

    search

    list 100

    subscriptions

    list 1
      insert 50
      delete 50

    thumbnails

    set 50

    videoAbuseReportReasons

    list 1

    videoCategories

    list 1

    videos

    list 1
      insert 1600
      update 50
      rate 50
      getRating 1
      reportAbuse 50
      delete 50

    watermarks

    set 50
      unset 50