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HTML to Markdown: What Benchmarks Forget

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A look at what actually survives TL/DR: Stripping HTML down to plain markdown is widely described as cutting tokens by about 80%, or roughly 5x. On ten pages I measured, the cuts ranged from 1.4x to 734x. The biggest cuts were not tightly packed pages. They were pages missing their prices, specs, a…

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