A million tokens, measured in
Spoken language runs ~150 words a minute, so a million tokens transcribes about 83 hours of talking — a hundred podcast episodes or three and a half days of speech.
1 bar = 1 hour of talking
≈ 83 hours of speech
hours of transcribed speech
People speak about 150 words per minute (~200 tokens/min), so a million tokens transcribes about 83 hours — three and a half days of non-stop talking.
basis: 150 words per minute
1 block = 1 episode
≈ 110 podcast episodes
45-minute episodes
At ~9,000 tokens per 45-minute episode transcript, a million tokens holds about 110 episodes — a full year of a weekly show, twice over.
basis: 45 min per episode, 150 wpm
1 bar = 2 songs
≈ 2,100 songs
songs’ worth of lyrics
Song lyrics average ~350 words (~470 tokens), so a million tokens is the lyrics to about 2,100 songs — over five days of continuous music.
basis: ~350 words per song
Everything on this page is exactly one million tokens. So the price of having a model read all of it is simply each model's per-million rate. Updated 2026-07-03.
| Model | Read all of it (input) |
|---|---|
| GPT-5.5 Pro | $30 |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 |
| GPT-5.5 | $5 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $0.50 |
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