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• 1 token = 4 chars in English

knowledge-baseBy Team M37Labs
• 1 token = 4 chars in English
• 1 token
= ¾ words
• 100 tokens = 75 words
Or

• 1-2 sentence
= 30 tokens
• 1 paragraph = 100 tokens
• 1,500 words
= 2048 tokens
To get additional context on how tokens stack up, consider this:

• Wayne Gretzky’s quote “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” contains 11 tokens.
• OpenAI’s charter contains 476 tokens.
• The transcript of the US Declaration of Independence contains 1,695 tokens.

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
Apr 22, 2025 • 8:38 AM