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Convert every price on any website into AI tokens. Tokenized reprices dollars, euros & 25+ currencies as LLM token costs. See the internet in the currency of intelligence. Tokenized is a Chrome extension that converts every visible price on any website into its approximate value in AI tokens. Every dollar, euro, pound, yen, and rupee you encounter is quietly rewritten into the number of Large Language Model (LLM) tokens that same amount of money could buy. A $4.99 coffee becomes millions of tokens. A $74 subscription becomes tens of millions. A $1,600 rent payment tips over a billion. Hover over any converted value to instantly reveal the original price. Same money. Different unit. Suddenly the number means something completely different. We measure almost everything in dollars out of habit. Tokenized invites you to try a different measuring tape for a while. It doesn’t tell you what to think. It simply lets you experience the internet through another unit of account. It is a statement piece. It is also genuinely fun to browse the web with. ⸻ WHY PEOPLE INSTALL TOKENIZED * See everyday prices in AI tokens. * Make AI compute costs intuitive. * Add a little meticulously ridiculousness to your browsing. * Start conversations. ⸻ WHAT IT DOES Tokenized scans the text of the page you’re viewing, finds monetary amounts, and rewrites each one in place as its approximate token equivalent. It handles the messy reality of how prices actually appear on the web: * Plain amounts: $20, $4.99, $1,234.56 * Abbreviated and spelled-out magnitudes: $5K, $4.2M, $1.2B, “$3 million” * Ranges: $1,000–$5,000 become two token figures * Negatives and accounting parentheses: -$5, ($20) * Complex shopping layouts used by major retailers, including Amazon, where prices are split across multiple elements It also updates live as pages change, so infinite-scroll feeds, dynamically loaded products, and modern web apps continue converting as new content appears. ⸻ IT WATCHES NOTHING. IT SENDS NOTHING. Tokenized is designed to be trustworthy by construction. * No data collection. * No analytics. * No tracking. * No accounts. * No telemetry. * No network requests. * No remote servers. Everything happens locally inside your browser. The only information stored is your own preferences (selected pricing peg, custom rate, and display settings), synchronized through your browser so they follow you between devices. Because there is no backend, there is nothing to leak. ⸻ PRICED IN WHATEVER CURRENCY YOU LAND ON The web isn’t just dollars. Tokenized recognizes approximately two dozen of the world’s most common currencies, including: * Symbols: $ £ € ¥ ₹ ₩ ₽ ₪ ₺ ฿ ¢ * Dollar variants: US$, CA$, A$, NZ$, HK$, MX$, R$, and others * Written currencies: GBP, kr, zł, Kč, лв, and more * International number formats including European decimal conventions (1.234,56 € and 1 234,56 €) Foreign currencies are first converted to their approximate U.S. dollar value using a bundled exchange-rate table before being converted into tokens. Exchange rates are intentionally stored inside the extension rather than fetched from the internet. They are updated with new releases and displayed in the popup so you always know when they’re current as of. ⸻ YOU CONTROL THE PEG How many tokens a dollar represents depends entirely on which model you’re imagining. Tokenized lets you choose the pricing peg directly from the popup. * Frontier — approximately $15 per million output tokens * Mid-market (default) — approximately $1.50 per million output tokens * Budget — approximately $0.25 per million output tokens * Custom — define your own dollars-per-million-token rate At the default Mid-market peg: $1 ≈ 666,667 tokens Switch to Budget and that same dollar becomes roughly four million tokens. Switch to Frontier and it shrinks to around 67,000. Watching the entire web change scale simply because you changed your reference point is, in many ways, the whole point. ⸻ HOVER TO SEE THE REAL PRICE Every converted value retains its original amount underneath. Hover over any token figure to instantly reveal the original currency. Disable the extension with a single toggle and every page immediately returns to normal. Nothing about the webpage itself is permanently changed. ⸻ CAREFUL BY DESIGN Tokenized intentionally avoids touching anything that could interfere with browsing. It: * Never alters text you’re typing * Ignores text inputs, search boxes, text areas, and editable content * Skips code blocks, terminals, preformatted text, and syntax-highlighted editors * Rewrites only visible display text—not the values websites actually submit or process What changes is your perspective—not the website’s behavior. ⸻ WHERE IT WORKS Almost anywhere. Shopping sites. News articles. Real estate listings. SaaS pricing pages. Marketplaces. Financial reports. Bank account summaries. Social feeds. Spreadsheets rendered on the web. If a webpage displays a price, there’s a good chance Tokenized will find it. ⸻ BUILT AS AN INTERNET ART PROJECT Tokenized began as a conversation. The first working version was built the following day with AI-assisted development, then expanded into a deliberately meticulous internet art project exploring what happens when AI compute becomes visible rather than remaining hidden behind software. The extension is useful. It’s also a joke. Those aren’t contradictions. Tokenized doesn’t try to predict the future. It prototypes a perspective. Browse with it for a few minutes and decide for yourself whether anything feels different afterward. ⸻ OPEN SOURCE AND FORKABLE Tokenized is intentionally lightweight, transparent, and easy to understand. The code is designed to be readable, auditable, and forkable. Want to peg prices to something other than AI tokens? Add another currency? Experiment with an entirely different unit of account? Go for it. ⸻ AN HONEST NOTE ON THE NUMBERS Token counts are approximate. Exchange rates move. Model pricing changes. The AI ecosystem evolves quickly. Tokenized isn’t intended for accounting, purchasing decisions, or financial advice. It’s a lens. A way of experiencing familiar numbers through an unfamiliar unit. Treat the numbers as perspective, not precision. ⸻ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Does it change the prices I actually pay? No. Tokenized only changes the visible text on the page. Your shopping cart, checkout, forms, and anything the website actually processes remain untouched. Will it slow down my browsing? No. Everything happens locally inside your browser. There are no network requests or remote services to wait for. Can I turn it off temporarily? Yes. One toggle instantly restores every page to its original prices. Why tokens? Because tokens are the unit AI models are metered, priced, and consumed in. Tokenized invites you to see familiar prices through that lens. It’s a different measuring tape—and that’s the point. ⸻ Install it. Pick your peg. Then go look at something expensive.