Tokenized is a 🏷️#browser-extension for 📝Google Chrome that converts every currency value visible on any web page into its approximate equivalent in 📝Large Language Model (LLM) tokens, reframing everyday costs in the emerging currency of intelligence.
The extension scans visible page text and replaces currency figures — from a coffee to rent to a billion-dollar acquisition — with their token counts at a configurable rate pegged to current AI output pricing. It reads roughly two dozen of the world's currencies — dollar variants, symbols like £, €, ¥, and ₹, and written ISO codes such as GBP and EUR — converting each through a bundled approximate exchange table before pricing it in tokens, and parses European number formats (1.234,56) as readily as 1,234.56. By default $1 converts to roughly 666,667 tokens (~$1.50 per 1M output tokens); the popup offers Frontier, Mid-market, Budget, and Custom rate presets and toggles abbreviated versus expanded counts, and hovering any figure reveals the original amount. It handles magnitude suffixes (K, M, B), decimals, and ranges, reassembles prices that sites split across separate page elements (such as Amazon's price widgets), and never touches form inputs or code blocks. It collects no data and makes no network requests — a pure client-side reference utility.
The gag carries a payload: rent priced at ~1.07B tokens, a salary at ~66.7B, a $1B acquisition at ~667 trillion — each number makes concrete what otherwise stays invisible. AI compute is already the unit of account underneath everything. Tokenized just makes it visible on every page.
The idea surfaced in a conversation with 📝Leevar Williams at an 📝The LA Grind meetup. Built the following day with 📝Claude Code (with approximately 5M tokens), it went from concept to installable extension in a single session.
Born in a conversation, built in a day — this one moved fast because the idea was already whole. Watching any web page refract through token-counts feels like holding up a new kind of measuring tape to the world.