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Non-English Prompts Cost More Tokens, Context and Money in Most LLMs

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Claude Opus 5 costs $5 per million input tokens whether a prompt arrives in English or in Russian. What changes between the two languages is how many tokens the same paragraph becomes, and the bill is that count multiplied by the price. A recent test on Habr measured the gap across 11 tokenizers. I…

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  1. 2026-10-05 04:22 · DEV Community — AI
    Non-English Prompts Cost More Tokens, Context and Money in Most LLMs

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