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I sent the same prompt in 27 languages. Czech costs 2x English. Chinese costs the same.

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I'm a solo developer in Korea, and for a long time I assumed my Korean prompts were "about 2-3x more expensive" than English. Everyone says non-English text eats tokens. But I had never actually measured it. So I did. I took one ordinary prompt, translated it into 27 languages, and ran every versio…

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  1. 2026-09-30 12:31 · DEV Community — AI
    I sent the same prompt in 27 languages. Czech costs 2x English. Chinese costs the same.

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