Tokens to words converter
1,000 tokens ≈ 871 English words. One token is about 0.87 words, or 1.15 tokens per word, measured with OpenAI’s o200k_base tokenizer. Convert any amount below.
Tokens to words converter
1,000 tokens ≈ 871 words ≈ 1.7 pages (at 500 words per page) ≈ 5,226 characters.
Common token counts in words and pages
| Tokens | Words | Pages | Roughly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 871 | 2 | a long email |
| 4,000 | 3,484 | 7 | a short report |
| 8,000 | 6,968 | 14 | a typical RAG prompt |
| 32,000 | 27,871 | 56 | a long article or small codebase file set |
| 128,000 | 111,484 | 223 | a novella |
| 200,000 | 174,194 | 348 | a full-length novel |
| 1,000,000 | 870,968 | 1,742 | the largest context windows |
Pages assume 500 words each. The largest context window we track holds 1,050,000 tokens.
Other languages and code use more tokens
We counted the same paragraph in three languages, plus a short function. Portuguese needed 16% more tokens than English and Spanish 23% more; code packs 2.3 tokens into each whitespace-separated word.
| Sample | Words | Tokens | Tokens per word |
|---|---|---|---|
| English prose | 54 | 62 | 1.15 |
| Portuguese prose | 55 | 72 | 1.31 |
| Spanish prose | 64 | 76 | 1.19 |
| TypeScript code | 32 | 72 | 2.25 |
What those tokens cost
Sending 1 million input tokens (about 870,968 words) to Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2.00, and getting the same amount back costs $10.00. Paste real text into the token counter for an exact count and its price on every model, or estimate a monthly bill with the cost calculator.
Frequently asked questions
- How many words is 1,000 tokens?
- About 871 English words with OpenAI’s o200k_base tokenizer, based on our measured sample. A common rule of thumb is 1 token ≈ 0.75 words; modern tokenizers pack English a little more efficiently than that.
- How many tokens is 1,000 words?
- About 1,148 tokens in English. Other languages and code use more tokens for the same content.
- Do Claude and Gemini count tokens the same way?
- No. Each provider uses its own tokenizer, so the same text produces different counts. Anthropic says the tokenizer used by Claude Opus 4.7 and later models produces roughly 30% more tokens than its previous one, so budget extra when converting words to Claude tokens.
- How many pages is 1 million tokens?
- About 870,968 words, or roughly 1,742 pages at 500 words per page.