Counting tokens exactly, and why the same sentence costs more in Hindi
Every LLM price, context limit and output cap is measured in tokens, so it pays to count them properly. Here is the short version, with the numbers I measured. What a token is A token is a chunk of text: a short word, part of a longer word, a few digits or a symbol. OpenAI's rule of thumb is about…
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- 2026-11-14 00:03 · DEV Community — AI
Counting tokens exactly, and why the same sentence costs more in Hindi