tiktoken
v3.1.2 GrowingA high-performance pure-Rust implementation of OpenAI's tiktoken BPE tokenizer
Quick Verdict
- โActively maintained (updated 20d ago)
- โStable API (3.x for 2+ years)
- โPermissive license (MIT)
- !88% of releases were yanked
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Deep Insights
1.3K downloads in the last 30 days (44/day), up 203% from the previous period.
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.
6.1MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.
88% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include instructors, embedrs, chunkedrs, tiktoken-wasm. When high-quality crates choose tiktoken, it's a strong quality signal.
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