Title: TIL: Conversion Factors Between Tokens and Words
Date: 2025-02-14
Tags: llms
Summary: Today I Learned: Small tools and facts I've learned
Status: published

Helpful [rules of thumb](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them) for understanding tokens:

```
1 token ~= 4 chars in English

1 token ~= ¾ words

100 tokens ~= 75 words

```

```
1-2 sentence ~= 30 tokens

1 paragraph ~= 100 tokens

1,500 words ~= 2048 tokens
```