The Tokeniser Tax: Why Indic Prompts Cost 8x More
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Originally published on AI Tech Connect . What the tokeniser tax costs you Every piece of cost-optimisation advice you have read — cache the prefix, route the easy requests to a smaller model, compress the context, batch the offline work — rests on an unstated assumption. It assumes that a token is…
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- 2026-09-04 13:31 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
The Tokeniser Tax: Why Indic Prompts Cost 8x More