A million tokens, measured in

Social & email

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.

≈ 50,000 Tinder bios dating app bios, drawn to scale

1 block = 10 bios

≈ 50,000 Tinder bios

dating app bios

The average dating profile bio is about 15 words (~20 tokens) — mostly "love to travel" and dog photos. A million tokens is 50,000 of them. That's a lot of swiping.

basis: ~15 words per bio

Social content is short per unit but massive in aggregate. A single tweet or dating bio is trivial — but analyzing a year of customer feedback, moderating a comment stream, or mining sentiment across thousands of emails adds up quickly. The per-message token cost matters less than the total volume, and that is where these comparisons help teams estimate realistic workloads.

Common questions about social & email

What would this cost?

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 2026-07-28.

ModelRead all of it (input)Write all of it (output)
GPT-5.6 Sol$5$30
GPT-5.5 Pro$30$180
Claude Fable 5$10$50
GPT-5.6 Terra$2.50$15
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
GPT-5.6 Luna$1$6
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 →

Frequently asked questions

How many tweets is 1 million tokens?
About 14,000 max-length 280-character posts, at roughly 70 tokens each.
How many emails is 1 million tokens?
Roughly 10,000 typical work emails, at about 75 words (~100 tokens) per email.

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