Business & money
AI Token To Word Converter
How many tokens is your text, how many words is that context window, and what does either one cost to send?
Blog posts, emails, chat. About 1.33 tokens per word.
That is roughly
1,330 tokens
- Words
- 1,000
- Tokens
- 1,330
- Characters
- 5,700
- Pages (500 words)
- 2
- Reading time
- 4.3 min
Cost to send once
As input: $0.004
As output: $0.02
Output tokens usually cost several times more than input tokens — long answers, not long prompts, are what move the bill.
0 words · approximately 0 tokens. Counted in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Why one word is not one token
Models read text in tokens — chunks of roughly four characters. Common words are a single token, rarer words split into two or three, and punctuation, indentation and quote marks each cost one of their own. That is why the same 1,000 words costs far more as JSON or source code than as plain prose.
Use these numbers to size a context window, budget a batch job, or sanity-check an invoice. They are estimates based on typical ratios per content type, not an exact tokenizer count, so leave around ten percent of headroom when you plan against a hard context limit.