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Token Counter

A web app to count tokens in ChatGPT conversations from exported history

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Link
token-counter-nu.vercel.app
Built by
Bυɾԋαɳ-Ops

Bloat

92/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

A small, working single-purpose tool that runs fully in the browser and is open source. It's a thin layer over an existing tokenizer library, has no payment path, and shows no activity after the launch post, so it reads as a utility rather than a business.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

There's a real curiosity behind it, but it's a free one-off utility with no clear buyer and no pricing or payment path.

18/100

Rubric 0–20No clear problem or user. A toy, a practice clone, or a solution looking for a problem.

Receipts (2)

  1. Pitched as a way to satisfy curiosity about token counts, with no mention of a paying user or price.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The site has no pricing, no payments, no accounts, and says the count is only an estimation.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

Anyone could rebuild this in a weekend with js-tiktoken, and the source is public.

8/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)

  1. Uses the off-the-shelf JS-TikToken library for the gpt-4-turbo model and is open source.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The site invites others to explore and contribute, and it has no proprietary data or local depth.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

One post on 2025-10-09 and nothing since, so there's no sustained shipping history and the last sign of activity is about a year old.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 0 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 363 days, so scaled to 20%.

Receipts (1)

  1. Earliest post about it.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A working, live static web app that does what it says, though it's a single-purpose tool without accounts, docs or backend.

52/100

  • It's live20/20

    https://Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Served over HTTPS.

  • Real product25/35

    It works as described: upload conversations.json, see per-chat and total counts, sort, and load sample data. It's a single-function tool, so it's thin.

  • Own home0/10

    Only on a free subdomain or link-in-bio page.

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2025-10-09.

  • Operations2/15

    There's a public repo, but no backend, accounts, docs, API or status page. It's a static client-side app on a free host.

Receipts (5)

  1. https://Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. The live page offers upload, sorting by title or token type, metadata, and a sample data loader.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  3. Describes per-conversation and overall input, output and total token counts.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Facts show no accounts, docs or status page, only a repo link.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  5. Everything is processed locally in the browser, so there's no backend to operate.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

It's on a free subdomain with no payments, no pricing and no privacy or terms pages, and there's no sign of ongoing commitment, so there's no route to sustaining it.

14/100

  • Distribution12/30

    A site on a free subdomain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    Nothing in the post or on the site suggests customers or revenue.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment2/20

    A single launch post and no activity since, with no dedicated channel, team or roadmap. The open-source repo is the only sign of intent.

Receipts (4)

  1. A site on a free subdomain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. No payment provider or pricing was found.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  3. One post, with the repo linked and a casual sign-off.

    “Token Counter • Token-Counter-nu.vercel.app If you've been curious about how many tokens your ChatGPT conversations are you can use this web app I built. You can view token count (input/output/total) of each and every conversation you had with ChatGPT or you can view the overall sum of the tokens in your entire conversation history. To export your ChatGPT history goto Settings → Data Controls”

    Post · @BurhanOps · 9 Oct 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. The page asks for contributions but shows no roadmap or community space.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · token-counter-nu.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)