What is Token?
A small chunk of text, often a short word or a piece of a longer one, that a large language model reads and writes. AI tools count length and limits in tokens; these are not login or access tokens.
this sentence: 6 tokens
In AI tools, a token is…
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
When the chat said the city's parks plan was too long, her son explained the tool counts text in tokens and can only take in so many at once, so she sent one chapter at a time.
In the illustration
A typed sentence strip runs through the cutter and drops out as small tiles: most words make one tile, a long word splits in two, the period is its own. The counter clicks once per tile.
In plain words, what is a token in your AI assistant, why do AI tools measure length that way, and how is it different from a login or access token? Use a cooking comparison.
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