Posts tagged tokenizer
3 posts about tokenizer.
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How Many Tokens Is an Image? 15 APIs Measured, Same Icon 6 to 1,298
The same 64px icon bills 6 tokens on GPT-5.6 and 1,298 on ByteDance Seed. Three billing schemes, three broken doc rules; dollars follow the rate, not the image.
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Which LLM Is Cheapest for Your Language? Tokenizer Costs Measured
GPT-5.5 bills fewest tokens for European languages, Kimi for Chinese, DeepSeek for Japanese; Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 run 1.2-2.3x. Measured.
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Claude Fable 5 Caching: Same Contract, 2.9x the Bill vs Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5 is live on Synthorai. Measured prompt caching, TTL, tokenization and cost vs Opus 4.6/4.8: same cache contract, new tokenizer, ~2.9x the bill.