Character & Word Counter

A standard message is capped at 2000 characters, and Nitro raises it to 4000. Exceeding the cap does not truncate - the message is rejected, which is why long pastes silently fail to send.

Other fields have their own budgets: About Me is 190 characters, custom status 128, nickname and display name 32, username 32, channel name 100, role name 100, server name 100, server description 120, and embed description 4096.

Discord counts characters rather than bytes, but it counts Unicode code points rather than what a human would call a character. An emoji built from a zero-width-joiner sequence - a family, or a flag - can consume five or more of your 2000 despite occupying one visual slot.

Markdown syntax counts. Wrapping a 1990-character message in bold pushes it over, because the four asterisks are part of the message. The same applies to spoiler bars, code fences and quote markers.

A custom emoji costs its full raw form - `<:name:1234567890123456789>` is around 25 characters, not one. A message that looks like a short line with a few emoji can be surprisingly close to the limit, which is why bot output that echoes emoji sometimes fails on messages that appear brief.

Regular messages cap at 2000 characters. Embed descriptions cap at 4096 and field values at 1024. If you are writing a long announcement or bot response, counting first saves you from truncation.