Study Finds Indian Languages Face Higher Tokenizer Costs in Commercial LLM APIs
A 2026 arXiv paper measures the 'Indic token tax,' showing tokenizers require more tokens for Indian languages, raising API costs for equal content.
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- 2026-11-11 05:00 · arXiv cs.CL
The Indic Token Tax in 2026: Measuring Tokenizer. Disparity and Its Cost for the Languages of India