freeCodeCamp.org YouTube Stats

@freecodecamp · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

freeCodeCamp.org channel overview

freeCodeCamp.org (@freecodecamp) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2014. It has 12M subscribers and 1B total views across 2.3K videos, an average of 441K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 186K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 157K views. Over the last 12 months, freeCodeCamp.org published 53 videos (15% Shorts), and 5 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, freeCodeCamp.org gained 0 subscribers and 7.3M views, about 429K views a day.

How much does freeCodeCamp.org make?

Returbe estimates freeCodeCamp.org's YouTube ad revenue at $51K – $204K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.94 to $15.76, typically $7.88, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $7.9K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

freeCodeCamp.org publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (28% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

freeCodeCamp.org's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are freeCodeCamp.org's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Why Your Web Scraper Gets Blocked (And How to Fix It)40K views · Sep 4, 20264.1× typical views
• Design Software Systems Like a Senior Engineer – Complete Course640K views · Oct 13, 20264.1× typical views
• Did you know that Dijkstra came up with his famous algorithm in about 20 minutes?36K views · Jul 21, 20263.7× typical views
• Agentic AI – Complete Course for Beginners506K views · Jul 30, 20263.2× typical views
• How to Deploy, Secure, and Automate Full-Stack Web Apps – Course for Beginners496K views · Sep 15, 20263.2× typical views
• Claude Certified Architect - Foundations – Prepare for and pass the exam!377K views · Jul 20, 20262.4× typical views
• Claude Certified Developer Foundations (CCDV-F) Certification Course312K views · Sep 21, 20262× typical views
• Learn Data Structures and Algorithms Visually – Crash Course303K views · Aug 20, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of freeCodeCamp.org's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Vector Databases Full Course for Beginners – Embeddings, Similarity Search & ChromaDB96K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• How Ethical Hackers Actually Break Into Systems247K views · Oct 28, 20261.6× typical views
• Jev Course – Prefill-Only Inference & Decision Models from Scratch81K views · Oct 27, 20260.5× typical views
• Gemini 4 Argon API Crash Course122K views · Oct 23, 20260.8× typical views
• MCP Security Fundamentals Course108K views · Oct 22, 20260.7× typical views
• PostgreSQL Hybrid Search Course – Keyword (BM25) + Vector Retrieval94K views · Oct 21, 20260.6× typical views
• Inside an AI Factory – Power, Cooling, and GPUs Explained192K views · Oct 16, 20261.2× typical views
• Design Software Systems Like a Senior Engineer – Complete Course640K views · Oct 13, 20264.1× typical views
• n8n Full Course – Architect Scalable AI Automations from Scratch170K views · Oct 9, 20261.1× typical views
• TanStack Router Course – Loaders, Auth & Type-Safe Routes79K views · Oct 8, 20260.5× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.7K videos from 718 channels in this niche. 11.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.5K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 178.2×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 96.4×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×), Pro Picks (21K subs, best video 41.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with freeCodeCamp.org or YouTube.