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Look, how I Compared Context Windows Across 184 LLM Models in 2026 A few months ago I found myself in a familiar spot — staring at our team's monthly AI bill while trying to ship a feature that needed to ingest an entire codebase. The model I'd been using for months was choking on anything over 32K tokens, so I'd started chopping up inputs manually. It was ugly. That's what kicked off my deep dive into context windows, and honestly, I wish someone had walked me through what I learned. So here...

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