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Twenty messages. 91% of the month.

The question was never the expensive part.

What you'll learn

What a token is, and why it is not a word
What really gets counted in one Copilot chat turn
Why a long thread costs far more than short ones

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The short runs these in order in about 51 seconds. Here they are written out — pick any step to jump the short straight to it.

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A token is a fragment

Not a word, not a character. "Jegatheesan" is 3 tokens.

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These are built for a phone

Every short is drawn at full portrait height, the shape a phone already is. Installed, it opens full-bleed with no address bar across the top — and the whole library reads offline.

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