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Will your document fit? Enter how much text you have — words, pages, characters, or tokens — and see which 2026 models can hold it in a single context window, with the cost to process it once.

66.7K tokens

Fits in 14 of 14 models · cheapest: Llama 4 Maverick at $0.015/run

  • Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic · 200K context
    $0.067/run
  • GLM-5Zhipu / Z.ai · 200K context
    $0.067/run
  • Mistral Large 3Mistral AI · 256K context
    $0.033/run
  • Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI · 256K context
    $0.040/run
  • GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI · 400K context
    $0.050/run
  • Llama 4 MaverickMeta · 1M context
    $0.015/run
  • DeepSeek V4DeepSeek · 1M context
    $0.029/run
  • Grok 4.3xAI · 1M context
    $0.083/run
  • Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle · 1M context
    $0.100/run
  • Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle · 1M context
    $0.133/run
  • Qwen 3.7 MaxAlibaba · 1M context
    $0.167/run
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic · 1M context
    $0.200/run
  • Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic · 1M context
    $0.333/run
  • GPT-5.5OpenAI · 1.05M context
    $0.333/run

Token estimate uses standard heuristics (~4 characters or ~0.75 words per token, ~500 words/page) — actual counts vary by tokenizer and language. Cost is the input price to process your text once (output not included); context windows and prices are a June 2026 snapshot. The full context is rarely free — leave headroom for the reply.

Frequently asked

How many tokens is my document?

A good rule of thumb is ~0.75 words per token, or about 4 characters per token, for typical English text. So 50,000 words is roughly 67,000 tokens, and a 500-word page is about 670 tokens. Code, other languages, and unusual formatting tokenize differently, so treat the estimate as a ballpark, not an exact count.

Which AI model has the biggest context window in 2026?

By verified API context windows, GPT-5.5 leads at ~1.05M tokens, with Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8 / Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.3, and the open Llama 4 Maverick all at ~1M. Google has discussed a larger Gemini tier (~2M) and Meta a 10M Llama 4 Scout variant, but those aren't standard API rows. For very long inputs, watch for context-tiered pricing — several models charge more above ~200K tokens.

Does a bigger context window cost more?

Two ways. First, processing more tokens costs more directly (price × token count), which this tool shows as the per-run input cost. Second, several flagships charge a higher per-token rate once a prompt passes ~200K tokens — so a 500K-token prompt can cost more than 2.5× a 200K one. Always leave headroom for the model's reply, too.

Should I use a huge context window or RAG?

If your text fits comfortably and you query it once or twice, a long context is simplest. If you have a large, mostly-static corpus you query repeatedly, retrieval (RAG) is usually cheaper and faster — you only send the relevant chunks each time instead of paying for the whole document on every call.

How to read a context window

A context window is the maximum number of tokens a model can hold at once, counting your prompt, any retrieved documents, the conversation so far, and the model's own reply. Everything has to fit inside that budget together.

It is a shared budget

A 200,000-token window does not mean you can send 200,000 tokens of input and still get a long answer; the reply comes out of the same pool. Leave headroom for the output you want back.

Bigger is not always better

Large windows are useful, but models often attend less reliably to information buried in the middle of a very long context, and you pay for every token in the window. Retrieval that sends only the relevant passages usually beats stuffing everything into one huge prompt.

Fitting your text

Estimate your token count first, then check it against the model's window with room to spare for the answer. If it does not fit, summarize, split the work into chunks, or switch to a longer-context model.

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