1 block = 750 words
≈ 750,000 words
English words
On average one token is about ¾ of an English word, so a million tokens works out to roughly three quarters of a million words.
basis: 1 token ≈ 0.75 words
A million tokens, measured in
The baseline everything else is measured in: a million tokens is about 750,000 English words, a stack of 1,500 single-spaced pages, or a thousand Wikipedia articles.
1 block = 750 words
≈ 750,000 words
English words
On average one token is about ¾ of an English word, so a million tokens works out to roughly three quarters of a million words.
basis: 1 token ≈ 0.75 words
1 block = 1 page
≈ 1,500 pages
single-spaced pages
At about 500 words per single-spaced page, 750,000 words fills roughly 1,500 pages — a stack of paper about 15 cm (6 in) tall.
basis: 500 words per page
1 block = 1 article
≈ 1,100 Wikipedia articles
average Wikipedia articles
The average Wikipedia article is about 660 words (~880 tokens), so a million tokens is over a thousand articles of general knowledge.
basis: ~660 words per article
Everything on this page is exactly one million tokens. So the price of having a model read — or write — all of it is simply each model's per-million rate. Updated 2026-07-03.
| Model | Read all of it (input) | Write all of it (output) |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.5 Pro | $30 | $180 |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 | $50 |
| GPT-5.5 | $5 | $30 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 | $25 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 | $10 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $2 | $12 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 | $9 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $5 |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $0.50 | $3 |
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