1 block = 10 posts
≈ 14,000 max-length posts
280-character posts
A maxed-out 280-character post is about 70 tokens, so a million tokens is roughly 14,000 of them — about 10 years of posting four times a day.
basis: 280 chars ≈ 70 tokens
A million tokens, measured in
The internet in small units: a million tokens is roughly 14,000 max-length posts or 10,000 work emails — several years of a very active feed or inbox.
1 block = 10 posts
≈ 14,000 max-length posts
280-character posts
A maxed-out 280-character post is about 70 tokens, so a million tokens is roughly 14,000 of them — about 10 years of posting four times a day.
basis: 280 chars ≈ 70 tokens
1 block = 10 emails
≈ 10,000 work emails
typical work emails
The average work email body runs about 75 words (~100 tokens). A million tokens is ten thousand of them — several years of a busy inbox.
basis: ~100 tokens per email
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 |
From $0.50 to $180 for the same million tokens. Try your own budget in the calculator →
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