How many tokens is 1,000 words? A conversion cheat sheet for LLM prompts

If you only want the number: 1,000 words of ordinary English is roughly 1,300 tokens. Going the other way, 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words, or about 4,000 characters. That is the whole answer for estimating. The rest of this post is the table, the cases where the ratio breaks, and how to get an exact count when an estimate is not good enough.... Weiterlesen