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tiktoken

v3.1.2 Growing

A high-performance pure-Rust implementation of OpenAI's tiktoken BPE tokenizer

MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.94
AlgorithmsText processing #tokenizer#openai#gpt#bpe#tiktoken

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 20d ago)
  • โœ“Stable API (3.x for 2+ years)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)
  • !88% of releases were yanked

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Downloads
5.7K
Dependents
12
Releases
8
Size
6.1MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

1.3K downloads in the last 30 days (44/day), up 203% from the previous period.

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Stable for 2+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 2 years with 8 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Large crate size

6.1MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Notable yanked versions

88% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include instructors, embedrs, chunkedrs, tiktoken-wasm. When high-quality crates choose tiktoken, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 4/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
22/day avg+251%
05010015020012/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v3.1.2
100%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

parallel

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
9
direct dependencies
Dependents
12
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