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Token Estimator

Estimate tokens, characters, words, and input cost before sending text to an LLM.

Your text is processed locally in your browser and is not stored.

Local estimate

Estimated tokens

12

Estimated input cost

$0.00006

Characters

46

Words

8

Estimated, not an exact provider tokenizer. The V1 heuristic uses roughly four characters per token and may vary for code, symbols, and non-English text.

Pricing last verified: Aug 7, 2026Official source

What is a token?

Tokens are the text units processed and billed by language models. A token can be part of a word, a whole short word, punctuation, or a code symbol.

V1 uses a transparent character-based estimate. Actual counts vary by tokenizer, language, formatting, and code density, so the result is always labeled estimated.