Token Ratios of the European Union's Official Languages Across Nine 2026 Tokenizers, and an Exploratory Tokenizer Transplant
Language model services count, limit and bill text in tokens, but the number of tokens needed for the same content depends on the language and on the tokenizer. We measure this token ratio relative to English for the 23 non-English official languages of the European Union on nine tokenizers of 2026: six company tokeniz...