Paste a video or Shorts link to get its engagement rate, like rate and comment rate from the public counts — or type in your own numbers from YouTube Studio.
Engagement rate is the share of viewers who did something: liked or commented. There's no single official formula, and the rate swings a lot by niche, format and channel size — so the most useful comparison is against your own videos.
Dividing by views measures how people who actually watched reacted. Dividing by subscribers mixes in everyone who didn't see the video, which punishes big channels and flatters viral ones.
(likes + comments) ÷ subscribers
(likes + comments) ÷ views
Shorts, long videos and live streams behave differently, and so do niches. Compare a video with the same channel's other videos of the same format.
Comparing a Short's rate with a 20-minute tutorial's
Comparing this Short with your last ten Shorts
Small videos watched mostly by existing fans often show high engagement. What grows a channel is reaching new viewers — check whether the video beat the channel's usual views too.
"12% engagement!" on 300 views
Views above the channel median and a steady engagement rate
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.
Here: (likes + comments) ÷ views, shown as a percentage, plus the like rate and comment rate on their own. Some tools divide by subscribers instead; per-view is fairer across channel sizes.
It depends heavily on niche, format and audience, so a universal benchmark would mislead you. Compare against your own recent videos of the same format.
Creators can hide like counts, and private or deleted videos have no public data. You can still enter numbers from YouTube Studio manually.
Yes, no sign-up, with an hourly limit on link lookups. The manual calculator has no limit.