Quota Calculator

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Every API request, even if invalid, will cost at least one quota point.

• Retrieving multiple pages of results from a single method call, like search.list, incurs the quota cost for each additional page request.

• Methods from the YouTube Live Streaming API, being part of the YouTube Data API, will incur the same quota costs as other methods.

• The table shows that methods like videos.insert have the highest cost of 1600 points, while several methods, such as activities.list, have the minimal cost of 1 point.

• There are numerous methods that cost 50 points such as captions.delete, channels.update, comment.delete and others.

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

Projects that enable the YouTube Data API have a default quota allocation of 10,000 units per day, an amount sufficient for the majority of our API users. You can see your quota usage on Quotas page in the Google API Console. Daily quotas reset at midnight Pacific Time (PT).

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