tiktoken-rs
v0.12.0 GrowingLibrary for encoding and decoding with the tiktoken library in Rust
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 41d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (6.6K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
1.9M downloads in the last 30 days, down 32% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.
6.6K crates depend on tiktoken-rs. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
tiktoken-rs has only 1 owner despite 6.6K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 3+ years old, tiktoken-rs hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
3.8MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.
Notable dependents include spider, text-splitter, llm-tokenizer, toon-format, langchain-rust. When high-quality crates choose tiktoken-rs, it's a strong quality signal.
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