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.
Wed Oct 14 2026 · 9 min read · 0 views
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Translating a 100,000-word book with Claude: what it costs
Translating 100,000 English words into German costs about $2.49 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, $0.12 on Haiku 5.5 and $4.97 on Opus 5.5, by our estimate.
Wed Oct 14 2026 · 9 min read · 0 views