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24 alternatives to Tiktokenizer

Tokenization visualization tool for llms

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Track your users' AI token usage through an API

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    TokenDagger is a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s Tiktoken (the tokenizer behind Llama 3, Mistral, GPT-3.*, etc.). It’s written in C++ 17 with thin Python bindings, keeps the exact same BPE vocab/special-token rules, and focuses on raw speed. I’m teaching myself LLM internals by re-implementing the stack from first principles. Profiling TikToken’s Python/Rust implementation showed a lot of time was spent doing regex matching. Most of my perf gains come from a) using a faster jit-compiled regex engine; and b) simplifying the algorithm to forego regex matching special tokens at all.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JS tokenizer for LLaMA 1 and 2. Contribute to belladoreai/llama-tokenizer-js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've found this visualization tool immensely helpful over the years for getting an intuition for how an LLM "sees" some piece of text, and with a bit of elbow grease decided to move all compute to client side so I could make it publicly available. I've found it particularly useful for - Understanding exactly how repetition and patterns affect a small LM's ability to predict correctly - Understanding different tokenization patterns and how it affects model output - Getting a general sense of how "hard" different prediction tasks are for GPT-style models Known problems (that I probably…

    2023 · perplexity.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey - I've been playing with LLMs since GPT-2 and recently experimented with fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time. Every post on the feed( on slop/duck/storytime) you see is streamed and generated just-in-time with HTML and into a Canvas with Gemini 3 Flash. Comments and DMs are bidirectionally linked with a Cloudflare Workers Durable Object which is why they feel so fast. Every generated post is saved into a DO SQLite which is then served into the "Following" feed so it can be served quicker. This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I…

    Jan 2026 · quack.sdan.io · its alternatives →

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    The low-code platform for testing AI apps

    2024 · langtail.com · its alternatives →

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    G'day, HN! I'm one of the maintainers of `llm`. I've been working alongside a trusty group of contributors to bring this project to life, and we're now at a point where we're ready to share it with the world. Large language models (LLMs) are taking the computing world by storm due to their emergent abilities that allow them to perform a wide variety of tasks, including translation, summarization, code generation, and even some degree of reasoning. However, the ecosystem around LLMs is still in its infancy, and it can be difficult to get started with these models. `llm` is a one-stop shop for…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LLMs price comparison tool developed and updated by LLM

    2024 · ailesson.io · its alternatives →

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    I often need to convert times between time zones, so I built this tool to convert between them quickly and efficiently. 1. Add the cities you want to convert between (this is saved in the browser). 2. Drag on the map until the time on the source city is the time you want. 3. Look at the time at the other city. It's even more helpful to use on a phone since it doesn't require typing to convert between time zones or look up the time in another city (assuming you already added the cities you care about). If you need to convert a time far in the future, you can input the date and time in the…

    Sep 2026 · ishamf.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re been working hard on this low-code tool for rapid prompt discovery, robustness testing and LLM evaluation. We’ve just released documentation to help new users learn how to use it and what it can already do. Let us know what you think! :)

    2023 · chainforge.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens&#x2F;sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmapitest.com&#x2F; Code: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;qjr87&#x2F;llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →

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    traceAI▲273

    Open-source LLM tracing that speaks GenAI, not HTTP.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    To know what models don't say out loud. Contribute to ninjahawk/Subtext development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Data automation and visualization platform for spreadsheet users.

    2024 · columns.ai · its alternatives →

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    Run GPT-OSS, Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek through one OpenAI-compatible API with streaming and clear usage-based pricing.

    May 2026 · adola.app · its alternatives →

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    We've open-sourced Klarity - a tool for analyzing uncertainty and decision-making in LLM token generation. It provides structured insights into how models choose tokens and where they show uncertainty. What Klarity does: - Real-time analysis of model uncertainty during generation - Dual analysis combining log probabilities and semantic understanding - Structured JSON output with actionable insights - Fully self-hostable with customizable analysis models The tool works by analyzing each step of text generation and returns a structured JSON: - uncertainty_points: array of {step, entropy,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chord recognition and beat tracking with llm

    2025 · chordmini.me · its alternatives →

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    2025 · v0-llm-token-visualizer.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Find your best LLM for a local inference

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community, I have been working on benchmarking publicly available LLMs these past couple of weeks. More precisely, I am interested on the finetuning piece since a lot of businesses are starting to entertain the idea of self-hosting LLMs trained on their proprietary data rather than relying on third party APIs. To this point, I am tracking the following 4 pillars of evaluation that businesses are typically look into: - Performance - Time to train an LLM - Cost to train an LLM - Inference (throughput &#x2F; latency &#x2F; cost per token) For each LLM, my aim is to benchmark them for…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive Token Embedding Visualization Tool of LLMs

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    We developed a new framework that enables flexible control of generated text in language models. By combining several models and&#x2F;or system prompts in one mathematical formula, it lets you tweak your style and combine model outputs with ease. A handy tool for those working with LLMs, looking for more fine-grained control of stylistic output. More details in our paper: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2311.14479. Feedback and potential applications are welcome.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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