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