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Token counts affect limits and usage costs
Token counts affect input limits and usage-based billing. For an original budgeting exercise, count representative prompts with the tokenizer used by the actual model rather than estimating every language with a fixed words-to-tokens rule.
Characters are not a universal token estimate
A character count is not a universal token count. Formatting, language, and unusual strings can change the conversion. Provider billing can also include components beyond ordinary visible text.
What to remember
Check provider usage definitions.
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