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dgellow
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GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta user...
Could someone clarify what exactly are those tokens ?
winchester6788
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Length of given text after encoding it with their BPE. In general, you can expect it to be 1.2x-2x the len(words) in your text.
minimaxir
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The Pricing FAQ notes that it's, on average, 4 characters, which IMO is fair.
Super common punctuation is its own token, however.
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