Decision Workspace
smoltoken vs wordchipper vs tokenizers
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
36
smoltoken
growingv0.2.0
A fast library for Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization.
47
wordchipper
experimentalv0.9.0
HPC Rust LLM Tokenizer Library
60
tokenizers
growingv0.22.2
Provides an implementation of today's most used tokenizers, with a focus on performances and versatility.
Core Metrics
| smoltoken | wordchipper | tokenizers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 36 | 47 | 60 |
| Total Downloads | 3.6K | 442 | 12.7M |
| 30d Downloads | 10 | 117 | 1.9M |
| Dependents | 0 | 8 | 3.6K |
| Releases | 5 | 27 | 39 |
| Last Updated | 358d ago | 4d ago | 115d ago |
| Age | 1y 3m | 1m | 6y 7m |
Health Breakdown
smoltoken
Maintenance
9
Quality
9
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
8
wordchipper
Maintenance
13
Quality
13
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
12
tokenizers
Maintenance
12
Quality
12
Community
16
Popularity
8
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| smoltoken | wordchipper | tokenizers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.0 | 0.9.0 | 0.22.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | non-standard | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 6 | 28 | 33 |
| Crate Size | 12KB | 259KB | 186KB |
| Features | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| Yanked % | 20.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2018 |
| MSRV | — | 1.93.0 | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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Quick Verdict
- •tokenizers leads with a health score of 60/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •tokenizers is depended on by 3.6K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.