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tiktoken Undercounts Claude Tokens: 37 of 418 Requests Blew the Limit
Community description: Counting Claude tokens with tiktoken undercounted my prompts by 14%. 37 of 418 requests failed. Here's the audit and the count_tokens fix.
Dev.to | Oct 7, 2026 | jidonglab
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At a 1. 09 ratio, 180K tiktoken tokens comes out to about 196K real tokens. How do you count Claude tokens accurately? So, can you count Claude tokens with tiktoken?
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