diff --git a/src/core/metrics/calculateMetrics.ts b/src/core/metrics/calculateMetrics.ts
index 29b8a622..5cc5b0dc 100644
--- a/src/core/metrics/calculateMetrics.ts
+++ b/src/core/metrics/calculateMetrics.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export const calculateMetrics = async (
 
   const [fileMetrics, totalTokens] = await Promise.all([
     deps.calculateAllFileMetrics(processedFiles, config.tokenCount.encoding, progressCallback),
-    deps.calculateOutputMetrics(output, config.tokenCount.encoding),
+    deps.calculateOutputMetrics(output, config.tokenCount.encoding, config.output.filePath),
   ]);
 
   const totalFiles = processedFiles.length;
diff --git a/src/core/metrics/calculateOutputMetrics.ts b/src/core/metrics/calculateOutputMetrics.ts
index 0ff7b1a9..323a310a 100644
--- a/src/core/metrics/calculateOutputMetrics.ts
+++ b/src/core/metrics/calculateOutputMetrics.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ import { logger } from '../../shared/logger.js';
 import { initPiscina } from '../../shared/processConcurrency.js';
 import type { OutputMetricsTask } from './workers/outputMetricsWorker.js';
 
-const initTaskRunner = () => {
-  const pool = initPiscina(1, new URL('./workers/outputMetricsWorker.js', import.meta.url).href);
+const CHUNK_SIZE = 1000;
+const MIN_CONTENT_LENGTH_FOR_PARALLEL = 1_000_000; // 1000KB
+
+const initTaskRunner = (numOfTasks: number) => {
+  const pool = initPiscina(numOfTasks, new URL('./workers/outputMetricsWorker.js', import.meta.url).href);
   return (task: OutputMetricsTask) => pool.run(task);
 };
 
@@ -16,13 +19,42 @@ export const calculateOutputMetrics = async (
     initTaskRunner,
   },
 ): Promise<number> => {
-  const runTask = deps.initTaskRunner();
+  const shouldRunInParallel = content.length > MIN_CONTENT_LENGTH_FOR_PARALLEL;
+  const numOfTasks = shouldRunInParallel ? CHUNK_SIZE : 1;
+  const runTask = deps.initTaskRunner(numOfTasks);
 
   try {
-    logger.trace(`Starting output token count for ${path}`);
+    logger.trace(`Starting output token count for ${path || 'output'}`);
     const startTime = process.hrtime.bigint();
 
-    const result = await runTask({ content, encoding, path });
+    let result: number;
+
+    if (shouldRunInParallel) {
+      // Split content into chunks for parallel processing
+      const chunkSize = Math.ceil(content.length / CHUNK_SIZE);
+      const chunks: string[] = [];
+
+      for (let i = 0; i < content.length; i += chunkSize) {
+        chunks.push(content.slice(i, i + chunkSize));
+      }
+
+      // Process chunks in parallel
+      const chunkResults = await Promise.all(
+        chunks.map((chunk, index) =>
+          runTask({
+            content: chunk,
+            encoding,
+            path: path ? `${path}-chunk-${index}` : undefined,
+          }),
+        ),
+      );
+
+      // Sum up the results
+      result = chunkResults.reduce((sum, count) => sum + count, 0);
+    } else {
+      // Process small content directly
+      result = await runTask({ content, encoding, path });
+    }
 
     const endTime = process.hrtime.bigint();
     const duration = Number(endTime - startTime) / 1e6;
diff --git a/src/core/metrics/workers/outputMetricsWorker.ts b/src/core/metrics/workers/outputMetricsWorker.ts
index 59c64fac..52e97aef 100644
--- a/src/core/metrics/workers/outputMetricsWorker.ts
+++ b/src/core/metrics/workers/outputMetricsWorker.ts
@@ -24,11 +24,9 @@ export default async ({ content, encoding, path }: OutputMetricsTask): Promise<n
   const tokenCount = counter.countTokens(content, path);
 
   const processEndAt = process.hrtime.bigint();
-  if (path) {
-    logger.trace(
-      `Counted tokens for ${path}. Count: ${tokenCount}. Took: ${(Number(processEndAt - processStartAt) / 1e6).toFixed(2)}ms`,
-    );
-  }
+  logger.trace(
+    `Counted output tokens. Count: ${tokenCount}. Took: ${(Number(processEndAt - processStartAt) / 1e6).toFixed(2)}ms`,
+  );
 
   return tokenCount;
 };