One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens

By arhamislam5766 · 2026-07-11 · 8 points · 3 comments

i use claude code daily and measured what pages cost it while doing research. an average wikipedia article, for instance, is 68,240 tokens of raw html (tiktoken); nike's homepage is 353,000. claude code's built-in webfetch handles the easy case well. it summarizes wikipedia to a…

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