Free token counter: words to tokens and cost

Paste text to estimate tokens (about 1.33 tokens per English word) and see what it costs to send to GPT, Claude, Gemini and other models at today's prices.

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Rules of thumb

1 token ≈ 4 characters ≈ ¾ of an English word.
100 words ≈ 133 tokens; a 5-page document ≈ 3,000 tokens.
Code, non-English text and numbers use more tokens per word.

Sources (checked 2026-10-31): OpenAI: What are tokens? · Prices: OpenRouter models API

Quick answers

Last updated 2026-10-30 from live API prices.

How many tokens is 1,000 words?

About 1,330 tokens for normal English text. Exact counts depend on each model's tokenizer.

How many words is 1 million tokens?

Roughly 750,000 English words, about 10 average novels.

Is this exact?

No, it's an estimate (≈1.33 tokens per word or 4 characters per token, whichever is larger). Each vendor's tokenizer differs slightly.

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