Character Counter

Paste or type into the box above. The character count appears immediately and updates as you type, with and without spaces. No limit needs to be chosen, and nothing is uploaded.

Choose a platform from the list above the box. The counter switches to a countdown of characters remaining, and anything past the limit is shaded inside the editor so you can see and delete exactly the part that will not fit.

A free account can post 280 characters. X Premium raises it to 25,000. Both are presets here. Note that links and attached media are treated differently by X than by a plain character count.

A pin description accepts 500 characters, and a pin title 100. In the feed only around the first 75 characters of a description and 40 of a title are shown, so the tool marks that point as well as the hard limit.

Because the hard limit and the display limit are different things. Instagram will accept a 2,200 character caption but collapses it behind "more" after roughly 125. Your caption is not rejected, it is just unread past that point, which is why both markers are shown.

Here they do, and that matches what most platforms report. A naive length check in JavaScript counts many emoji as two, and a flag or a family emoji as four or more, because it counts code units rather than characters. This tool counts what a person would call one character.

A plain SMS using the standard GSM-7 alphabet holds 160 characters. A single emoji, curly quote or accented letter forces the whole message into Unicode encoding, which drops the limit to 70. Both are offered as presets so you can check against the right one.

They were checked against published platform guidance in October 2026 and are reviewed periodically. Platforms do change them, and some vary by account type, region or server, so treat the numbers as a reliable reference rather than a guarantee. If you spot one that has moved, tell us and we will correct it.

That is a convention rather than a rule. Google measures the available space in pixels, not characters, and rewrites titles when it judges a better one exists. Sixty is a sensible target, which is why the tool marks that preset as a recommendation rather than a hard limit.

No. Counting runs entirely in your browser using local JavaScript. Your text is never transmitted to our server, never written to a database and never passed to any third party or AI service. Disconnect from the internet and the tool still works.