Twelve books tokenised, four languages, five real codebases. A 128k window is 314 paperback pages. War and Peace fits in 1M with room to spare. And the same novel costs 24.6 percent more context in Italian.
The same instruction costs 73 percent more tokens in Japanese than English, using less than half the characters. Measured with the real GPT-5.6 tokeniser, with a tool to try it yourself.
I built a calculator that turns published token prices into your real monthly bill across GPT-5.6, Claude and Gemini. Verified rates, September 2026.
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