Character Counter

Count characters, words, lines, sentences, and UTF-8 bytes.

textstringcountbytes

Characters 0

No spaces 0

Words 0

Sentences 0

Lines 0

Bytes (UTF-8) 0

Platform limits

Platform	Chars
X (Twitter)	280
SMS (GSM)	160
Instagram bio	150
Meta description	160
GitHub PR title	72
Git commit msg	72

Bytes vs chars

ASCII characters are 1 byte each. Characters outside ASCII (e.g. €, Chinese, emoji) use 2–4 bytes in UTF-8. Byte count matters for network payloads and database field sizes.