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LLM token cost by language: we measured 14 of them

LLM token cost by language, measured: the same sentences cost 7% to 54% more tokens in German, Polish or Hindi than in English on GPT-4o's tokenizer.

Bar chart style comparison of token counts across languages

October 14, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 views

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