The Indic Token Tax in 2026: Measuring Tokenizer. Disparity and Its Cost for the Languages of India
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2611.13058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial language model APIs bill per token, so a tokenizer that needs more tokens for the same content in one language makes that language more expensive, slower,...
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