Token Counter — Count Tokens for GPT, Claude, Gemini
Paste text and get an exact token count for every major LLM. See cost, context-window usage, and per-section breakdowns.
Know your tokens before you spend them
Every LLM bills by the token, and every model uses a slightly different tokenizer. Our token counter implements the official tokenizers for GPT-4 / GPT-5 (cl100k, o200k), Claude (Anthropic’s tokenizer), Gemini, and Llama 3 — so the count you see is the count you’ll actually pay for.
Beyond raw counts, we show context-window usage as a progress bar, estimated cost at current public pricing, and a per-section breakdown so you can see which parts of your prompt are eating the budget.
Features
Exact token counts for GPT-4, GPT-5, Claude 3.5/4, Gemini, Llama 3
Cost estimate at the latest public per-million pricing
Context-window usage shown as a percentage of each model’s limit
Per-section breakdown for Markdown and chat-format inputs
Compare counts across models in one view
Bulk mode: paste a folder of files and see total tokens
Use it to keep prompts under context-window caps, to debug runaway costs, and to size embeddings batches before you call the API.
How it works
Paste or drop text into the counter
Pick one or more target models
See exact token counts and cost estimates
Drill into per-section breakdowns
Export the report as Markdown or CSV
Use cases
Check whether a prompt fits inside a model’s context window
Estimate the cost of running a batch through an API
Identify which sections of a long prompt waste tokens
Compare GPT vs Claude vs Gemini cost for the same input
Right-size chunk parameters before embedding
Audit a prompt library for bloat
Frequently asked questions
Are the counts exact?
Yes. We use the official tokenizers shipped by each model provider, run locally in your browser.
Are the prices live?
We update public pricing weekly. You can override with your own rate card for accurate forecasts.
Does it work offline?
Yes — once the page is loaded, all counting happens client-side. Nothing is sent to a server.
Can I count multiple files at once?
Yes. Bulk mode shows total and per-file tokens for an entire folder.
Does it support chat format?
Yes. Paste OpenAI/Anthropic chat JSON and we count messages plus the formatting overhead.
Which Claude tokenizer is used?
Anthropic’s public tokenizer for Claude 3.5 / 4 / 4.5. Older models fall back to a close approximation.
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