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A Hindi sentence costs 4.4x the tokens of English. Malayalam costs 7.3x.

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If you serve an LLM to Indian-language users, your GPU bill has a hidden multiplier. I measured it instead of quoting it. The measurement I took the 1,012 FLORES devtest sentences, tokenized each language and its English counterpart with the Qwen3 tokenizer, and compared the median per-sentence tok…

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  1. 2026-10-19 05:11 · DEV Community — AI
    A Hindi sentence costs 4.4x the tokens of English. Malayalam costs 7.3x.

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