Are spaces counted as characters?

Yes, in the main count. The “Without spaces” figure excludes spaces, tabs and line breaks.

How are Gujarati and Hindi characters counted?

Characters are counted as readers see them (grapheme clusters), so a conjunct with a matra counts as one character.

Bytes show how much storage the text needs in UTF-8. English letters take 1 byte; Gujarati and Hindi letters take 3 bytes each.

No. Counting happens in your browser and nothing is saved.

Character Counter – Letters, SMS & Tweet Limits

How to use the Character Counter

Type or paste your text.
See character counts with and without spaces, plus letters, digits, symbols, lines and bytes.
Watch the platform bars – they turn amber near a limit and red when you go over.

Formula

SMS parts = characters ÷ 153 (standard) or ÷ 67 (Unicode) when longer than one SMS

An SMS written only with standard Latin characters holds 160 characters. Any Gujarati, Hindi or emoji character switches it to Unicode, which holds only 70.

Worked example: Why a Hindi SMS costs more

A 100-character English message fits in one SMS. The same length in Hindi needs Unicode encoding, which allows only 70 characters per SMS, so it is sent as 2 parts.

Character limits worth knowing

Keep these in mind when writing for the web:

Google usually shows about 50–60 characters of a page title and about 150–160 characters of a meta description.
X (Twitter) allows 280 characters for standard accounts.
Instagram captions can be up to 2,200 characters, but only the first ~125 show before “more”.
YouTube titles can be 100 characters long.

Character Counter