
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

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.
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.
| Model | Read 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 →
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