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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: token-atlas-engine
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+ Version: 0.3.0
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+ Summary: Universal multilingual tokenizer efficiency benchmark & global linguistic inflation atlas.
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+ Author-email: Prajwal7-2002 <prajwalpujari16@gmail.com>
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+ License: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.12
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+ Requires-Dist: pydantic>=2.7.0
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+ Requires-Dist: rich>=13.7.0
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+ Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.7.0
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+ Requires-Dist: tokenizers>=0.19.0
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+ Requires-Dist: transformers>=4.40.0
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+ Requires-Dist: typer>=0.12.0
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest-cov>=5.0.0; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0.0; extra == 'dev'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # TokenAtlas 🌐
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+ > **Universal Multilingual Tokenizer Benchmark & Global Inflation Atlas**
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+
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+ [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/token-atlas-engine.svg?color=blue)](https://pypi.org/project/token-atlas-engine/)
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+ TokenAtlas is an open-source benchmarking engine and diagnostic suite that measures the **token inflation tax** across global languages and frontier LLM tokenizers using Meta's FLORES-200 parallel evaluation corpus.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## ⚡ The Problem: The Hidden Token Tax
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+ Large Language Model tokenizers (like BPE, Tiktoken, and WordPiece) are trained predominantly on English datasets. Expressing the **exact same thought** in other languages requires significantly more tokens.
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+ This creates 4 compounding penalties for international users:
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+ 1. **Financial Tax:** APIs bill strictly per token. Multilingual conversations cost up to $4\times$ more per 1k words.
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+ 2. **Context Shrinkage:** A 128k context window is effectively cut to ~30k words for high-inflation languages.
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+ 3. **TTFT Latency Penalty:** Attention prefill latency scales with sequence token length.
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+ 4. **VRAM Footprint:** Paged KV-cache memory allocators must reserve more physical blocks per user session.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🚀 Quickstart
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+
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+ ### Installation
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install token-atlas-engine
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 1. Compare Tokenizers on Single String
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas compare --text "ここでテキストを分かち書きします" --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4 --language ja
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 2. Run Multilingual Parallel Benchmark
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+ ```bash
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+ # Benchmark all 28 languages across models
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+ token-atlas bench --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4 --languages all --samples 5
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+
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+ # Benchmark with custom parallel corpus JSON
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+ token-atlas bench --tokenizers deepseek-v3,mistral-tekken --custom-corpus my_corpus.json
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 3. Compare Text from File or String
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas compare --file document.txt --tokenizers gpt-4o,mistral-tekken --language kn
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 4. Tokenizer-Aware Model Routing (Cut Effective Costs)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Analyze prompt script and recommend the most token-efficient model
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+ token-atlas route --text "ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ದಾಖಲೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ವರದಿ ನೀಡಿ"
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 5. Lossless Prompt Token Minification (Save 15-35% on Bills)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Minify prompt whitespace and embedded JSON schemas before model dispatch
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+ token-atlas minify --file agent_prompt.txt --out minified_prompt.txt
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 6. Benchmark Multi-Domain Inflation (Code, Indentation, Tools, Math)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Benchmark tool-calling schema tax (verbose vs compact JSON)
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain tools --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+
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+ # Benchmark indentation tax (4-space vs 2-space vs tabs vs minified)
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain indentation --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+
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+ # Benchmark cross-language code syntax
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain code --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 7. Diagnose UTF-8 Byte Fragmentation
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas explain-bytes --text "ಕನ್ನಡ"
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 8. Python Production API
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+ ```python
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+ from token_atlas import recommend_model, minify_prompt
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+
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+ # 1. Route to the most cost-effective model for the detected script
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+ decision = recommend_model(
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+ prompt="ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ದಾಖಲೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ...",
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+ budget_tier="frugal"
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+ )
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+ print(f"Recommended: {decision.recommended_model} ({decision.savings_vs_worst} cheaper)")
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+
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+ # 2. Minify prompt whitespace and embedded JSON losslessly
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+ minified = minify_prompt(raw_prompt)
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+ print(f"Saved {minified.tokens_saved} tokens ({minified.token_reduction_pct}% reduction)")
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 9. Export Standalone Interactive Web Atlas
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas export-web --out-dir docs/
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 10. List Supported Tokenizers & Language Families
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas list-tokenizers
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+ token-atlas list-tokenizers --category code
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+ token-atlas list-languages
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🌐 Interactive Web Atlas & Live Demo
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+ TokenAtlas exports a zero-dependency, self-contained interactive web application with:
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+ * Real-time sorting and filtering by language family and token inflation index.
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+ * Cross-model head-to-head comparison table.
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+ * **Live Token Tax & Context Shrinkage Calculator** with interactive preset prompts.
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+
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+ Live GitHub Pages Deployment: [prajwal7-2002.github.io/token-atlas](https://prajwal7-2002.github.io/token-atlas/)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📚 Educational Guide: How Tokenizers Work
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+ For a first-principles breakdown of Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE), UTF-8 byte fallback mechanics, and the vocabulary VRAM scaling equation ($V \times d_{\text{model}}$), see:
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+ 👉 [**docs/learn-tokenizers.md**](docs/learn-tokenizers.md)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📊 Core Metrics
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+ TokenAtlas rigorously evaluates 4 dimensions on identical parallel sentences:
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+ * **Token Inflation Index ($\tau$):**
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+ $$\tau(L, M) = \frac{\text{Tokens in Language } L}{\text{Tokens in English}}$$
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+ * **Bytes Per Token (BPT):** Compression density of information per token ($BPT = \text{Bytes} / \text{Tokens}$).
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+ * **Effective Context Window ($W_{\text{eff}}$):** Real usable context in equivalent English tokens ($W_{\text{eff}} = \text{ContextLimit} / \tau$).
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+ * **Cost Multiplier ($\kappa$):** Financial invoice scaling factor per 1k semantic words.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🔬 Evaluated Frontier Tokenizers
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+ | Tokenizer | Vocab Size | Context Limit | Category | Target Architecture & Focus |
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+ | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- |
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+ | **OpenAI GPT-4o** (`o200k_base`) | 200,000 | 128,000 | Multilingual | Frontier Multilingual Tiktoken |
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+ | **Mistral Tekken** | 131,072 | 128,000 | Multilingual | Balanced Multilingual BPE (`Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407`) |
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+ | **Cohere Aya Expanse** | 256,000 | 128,000 | Multilingual | 101-Language Global Tokenizer with massive Dravidian/African merges |
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+ | **DeepSeek-R1 & V3** | 128,815 | 128,000 | Reasoning | Sinitic-first Byte BPE ($\tau = 0.98\times$ on Chinese) & Reasoning |
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+ | **Qwen 2.5** | 152,064 | 131,072 | Multilingual | High-capacity Asian & Multilingual Byte BPE |
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+ | **Qwen 2.5 Coder** | 152,064 | 131,072 | Code | Specialized syntax, indentation, and repo path compression |
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+ | **Google Gemma 2** | 256,000 | 8,192 | General | Ultra-large Vocab SentencePiece |
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+ | **Meta Llama 3.1** | 128,256 | 128,000 | General | Latin-first Tiktoken BPE |
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+ | **Meta Llama 3.2** | 128,256 | 128,000 | SLM | Edge-optimized Latin-first BPE |
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+ | **HuggingFace SmolLM2** | 49,152 | 8,192 | SLM | Ultra-compact 49k vocabulary minimizing embedding memory |
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+ | **OpenAI GPT-4** (`cl100k_base`) | 100,277 | 128,000 | General | English-biased Baseline Tiktoken |
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## 🌍 Supported Language Coverage (52 Languages)
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+ TokenAtlas evaluates 52 global languages across 12 linguistic families aligned to FLORES-200:
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+ * **Germanic & Romance:** English (`en`), German (`de`), Dutch (`nl`), Swedish (`sv`), Danish (`da`), Norwegian (`no`), French (`fr`), Spanish (`es`), Italian (`it`), Portuguese (`pt`), Romanian (`ro`)
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+ * **Slavic:** Russian (`ru`), Ukrainian (`uk`), Polish (`pl`), Czech (`cs`), Bulgarian (`bg`), Serbian (`sr`), Croatian (`hr`)
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+ * **Hellenic & Finno-Ugric:** Greek (`el`), Finnish (`fi`), Hungarian (`hu`)
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+ * **Semitic & Middle Eastern:** Arabic (`ar`), Hebrew (`he`), Amharic (`am`), Persian (`fa`)
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+ * **Turkic:** Turkish (`tr`), Azerbaijani (`az`), Uzbek (`uz`), Kazakh (`kk`)
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+ * **Indic (Indo-Aryan):** Hindi (`hi`), Bengali (`bn`), Marathi (`mr`), Urdu (`ur`), Gujarati (`gu`), Punjabi (`pa`), Nepali (`ne`), Sinhala (`si`)
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+ * **Indic (Dravidian):** Kannada (`kn`), Tamil (`ta`), Telugu (`te`), Malayalam (`ml`)
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+ * **CJK:** Simplified Chinese (`zh`), Traditional Chinese (`zh-tw`), Japanese (`ja`), Korean (`ko`)
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+ * **Southeast Asian & Austronesian:** Vietnamese (`vi`), Thai (`th`), Indonesian (`id`), Malay (`ms`), Filipino (`tl`)
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+ * **African:** Swahili (`sw`), Yoruba (`yo`)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🛠️ Developer Setup & Testing
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ # Clone repository
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+ git clone https://github.com/Prajwal7-2002/token-atlas.git
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+ cd token-atlas
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+
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+ # Run test suite
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+ uv run pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📜 Citation
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+
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+ If you use TokenAtlas in your research or benchmarks, please cite:
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @software{Pujari_TokenAtlas_2026,
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+ author = {Pujari, Prajwal},
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+ title = {{TokenAtlas: Universal Multilingual Tokenizer Benchmark & Global Inflation Atlas}},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ url = {https://github.com/Prajwal7-2002/token-atlas},
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+ license = {Apache-2.0}
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## License
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+ Apache 2.0 © 2026 Prajwal Pujari. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
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+ # TokenAtlas 🌐
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+ > **Universal Multilingual Tokenizer Benchmark & Global Inflation Atlas**
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+ [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/token-atlas-engine.svg?color=blue)](https://pypi.org/project/token-atlas-engine/)
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+ TokenAtlas is an open-source benchmarking engine and diagnostic suite that measures the **token inflation tax** across global languages and frontier LLM tokenizers using Meta's FLORES-200 parallel evaluation corpus.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## ⚡ The Problem: The Hidden Token Tax
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+ Large Language Model tokenizers (like BPE, Tiktoken, and WordPiece) are trained predominantly on English datasets. Expressing the **exact same thought** in other languages requires significantly more tokens.
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+ This creates 4 compounding penalties for international users:
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+ 1. **Financial Tax:** APIs bill strictly per token. Multilingual conversations cost up to $4\times$ more per 1k words.
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+ 2. **Context Shrinkage:** A 128k context window is effectively cut to ~30k words for high-inflation languages.
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+ 3. **TTFT Latency Penalty:** Attention prefill latency scales with sequence token length.
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+ 4. **VRAM Footprint:** Paged KV-cache memory allocators must reserve more physical blocks per user session.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🚀 Quickstart
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+
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+ ### Installation
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install token-atlas-engine
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 1. Compare Tokenizers on Single String
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas compare --text "ここでテキストを分かち書きします" --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4 --language ja
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 2. Run Multilingual Parallel Benchmark
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+ ```bash
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+ # Benchmark all 28 languages across models
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+ token-atlas bench --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4 --languages all --samples 5
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+
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+ # Benchmark with custom parallel corpus JSON
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+ token-atlas bench --tokenizers deepseek-v3,mistral-tekken --custom-corpus my_corpus.json
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 3. Compare Text from File or String
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas compare --file document.txt --tokenizers gpt-4o,mistral-tekken --language kn
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 4. Tokenizer-Aware Model Routing (Cut Effective Costs)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Analyze prompt script and recommend the most token-efficient model
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+ token-atlas route --text "ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ದಾಖಲೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ವರದಿ ನೀಡಿ"
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 5. Lossless Prompt Token Minification (Save 15-35% on Bills)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Minify prompt whitespace and embedded JSON schemas before model dispatch
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+ token-atlas minify --file agent_prompt.txt --out minified_prompt.txt
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 6. Benchmark Multi-Domain Inflation (Code, Indentation, Tools, Math)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Benchmark tool-calling schema tax (verbose vs compact JSON)
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain tools --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+
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+ # Benchmark indentation tax (4-space vs 2-space vs tabs vs minified)
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain indentation --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+
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+ # Benchmark cross-language code syntax
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+ token-atlas bench-domain --domain code --tokenizers gpt-4o,gpt-4
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 7. Diagnose UTF-8 Byte Fragmentation
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas explain-bytes --text "ಕನ್ನಡ"
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 8. Python Production API
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+ ```python
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+ from token_atlas import recommend_model, minify_prompt
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+
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+ # 1. Route to the most cost-effective model for the detected script
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+ decision = recommend_model(
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+ prompt="ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ದಾಖಲೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ...",
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+ budget_tier="frugal"
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+ )
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+ print(f"Recommended: {decision.recommended_model} ({decision.savings_vs_worst} cheaper)")
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+
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+ # 2. Minify prompt whitespace and embedded JSON losslessly
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+ minified = minify_prompt(raw_prompt)
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+ print(f"Saved {minified.tokens_saved} tokens ({minified.token_reduction_pct}% reduction)")
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 9. Export Standalone Interactive Web Atlas
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas export-web --out-dir docs/
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### 10. List Supported Tokenizers & Language Families
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+ ```bash
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+ token-atlas list-tokenizers
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+ token-atlas list-tokenizers --category code
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+ token-atlas list-languages
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🌐 Interactive Web Atlas & Live Demo
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+ TokenAtlas exports a zero-dependency, self-contained interactive web application with:
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+ * Real-time sorting and filtering by language family and token inflation index.
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+ * Cross-model head-to-head comparison table.
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+ * **Live Token Tax & Context Shrinkage Calculator** with interactive preset prompts.
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+ Live GitHub Pages Deployment: [prajwal7-2002.github.io/token-atlas](https://prajwal7-2002.github.io/token-atlas/)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📚 Educational Guide: How Tokenizers Work
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+
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+ For a first-principles breakdown of Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE), UTF-8 byte fallback mechanics, and the vocabulary VRAM scaling equation ($V \times d_{\text{model}}$), see:
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+ 👉 [**docs/learn-tokenizers.md**](docs/learn-tokenizers.md)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📊 Core Metrics
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+ TokenAtlas rigorously evaluates 4 dimensions on identical parallel sentences:
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+ * **Token Inflation Index ($\tau$):**
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+ $$\tau(L, M) = \frac{\text{Tokens in Language } L}{\text{Tokens in English}}$$
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+ * **Bytes Per Token (BPT):** Compression density of information per token ($BPT = \text{Bytes} / \text{Tokens}$).
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+ * **Effective Context Window ($W_{\text{eff}}$):** Real usable context in equivalent English tokens ($W_{\text{eff}} = \text{ContextLimit} / \tau$).
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+ * **Cost Multiplier ($\kappa$):** Financial invoice scaling factor per 1k semantic words.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🔬 Evaluated Frontier Tokenizers
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+ | Tokenizer | Vocab Size | Context Limit | Category | Target Architecture & Focus |
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+ | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- |
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+ | **OpenAI GPT-4o** (`o200k_base`) | 200,000 | 128,000 | Multilingual | Frontier Multilingual Tiktoken |
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+ | **Mistral Tekken** | 131,072 | 128,000 | Multilingual | Balanced Multilingual BPE (`Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407`) |
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+ | **Cohere Aya Expanse** | 256,000 | 128,000 | Multilingual | 101-Language Global Tokenizer with massive Dravidian/African merges |
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+ | **DeepSeek-R1 & V3** | 128,815 | 128,000 | Reasoning | Sinitic-first Byte BPE ($\tau = 0.98\times$ on Chinese) & Reasoning |
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+ | **Qwen 2.5** | 152,064 | 131,072 | Multilingual | High-capacity Asian & Multilingual Byte BPE |
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+ | **Qwen 2.5 Coder** | 152,064 | 131,072 | Code | Specialized syntax, indentation, and repo path compression |
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+ | **Google Gemma 2** | 256,000 | 8,192 | General | Ultra-large Vocab SentencePiece |
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+ | **Meta Llama 3.1** | 128,256 | 128,000 | General | Latin-first Tiktoken BPE |
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+ | **Meta Llama 3.2** | 128,256 | 128,000 | SLM | Edge-optimized Latin-first BPE |
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+ | **HuggingFace SmolLM2** | 49,152 | 8,192 | SLM | Ultra-compact 49k vocabulary minimizing embedding memory |
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+ | **OpenAI GPT-4** (`cl100k_base`) | 100,277 | 128,000 | General | English-biased Baseline Tiktoken |
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## 🌍 Supported Language Coverage (52 Languages)
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+ TokenAtlas evaluates 52 global languages across 12 linguistic families aligned to FLORES-200:
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+ * **Germanic & Romance:** English (`en`), German (`de`), Dutch (`nl`), Swedish (`sv`), Danish (`da`), Norwegian (`no`), French (`fr`), Spanish (`es`), Italian (`it`), Portuguese (`pt`), Romanian (`ro`)
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+ * **Slavic:** Russian (`ru`), Ukrainian (`uk`), Polish (`pl`), Czech (`cs`), Bulgarian (`bg`), Serbian (`sr`), Croatian (`hr`)
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+ * **Hellenic & Finno-Ugric:** Greek (`el`), Finnish (`fi`), Hungarian (`hu`)
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+ * **Semitic & Middle Eastern:** Arabic (`ar`), Hebrew (`he`), Amharic (`am`), Persian (`fa`)
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+ * **Turkic:** Turkish (`tr`), Azerbaijani (`az`), Uzbek (`uz`), Kazakh (`kk`)
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+ * **Indic (Indo-Aryan):** Hindi (`hi`), Bengali (`bn`), Marathi (`mr`), Urdu (`ur`), Gujarati (`gu`), Punjabi (`pa`), Nepali (`ne`), Sinhala (`si`)
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+ * **Indic (Dravidian):** Kannada (`kn`), Tamil (`ta`), Telugu (`te`), Malayalam (`ml`)
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+ * **CJK:** Simplified Chinese (`zh`), Traditional Chinese (`zh-tw`), Japanese (`ja`), Korean (`ko`)
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+ * **Southeast Asian & Austronesian:** Vietnamese (`vi`), Thai (`th`), Indonesian (`id`), Malay (`ms`), Filipino (`tl`)
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+ * **African:** Swahili (`sw`), Yoruba (`yo`)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🛠️ Developer Setup & Testing
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ # Clone repository
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+ git clone https://github.com/Prajwal7-2002/token-atlas.git
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+ cd token-atlas
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+
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+ # Run test suite
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+ uv run pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📜 Citation
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+
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+ If you use TokenAtlas in your research or benchmarks, please cite:
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @software{Pujari_TokenAtlas_2026,
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+ author = {Pujari, Prajwal},
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+ title = {{TokenAtlas: Universal Multilingual Tokenizer Benchmark & Global Inflation Atlas}},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ url = {https://github.com/Prajwal7-2002/token-atlas},
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+ license = {Apache-2.0}
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache 2.0 © 2026 Prajwal Pujari. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.