Prompt Pricing vs
tiktoken
tiktoken is a programmatic library for token counting. Prompt Pricing is its opposite: a no-install, side-by-side cost comparison for any prompt across Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, and more — built for product decisions, not pipelines.
Try Prompt Pricing (Free) →Prompt Pricing vs tiktoken — Feature Comparison
| Feature | Prompt Pricing | tiktoken |
|---|---|---|
| Install / setup | None — open the page | pip install tiktoken |
| Compares costs across providers | Yes — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Haiku | No — token counts only, OpenAI encodings |
| Returns dollar cost | Yes — per provider per million tokens | No — integer token counts |
| Best for product / pricing decisions | Yes | No — built for code |
| Best for code-level token budgeting | No | Yes — millisecond performance |
| Live rate card included | Yes — updated when providers change | N/A |
| Free | Yes | Yes (MIT) |
Pick Prompt Pricing when…
You want to know 'if I send THIS prompt 10,000 times a day, what does it cost on Claude Sonnet versus GPT-4o versus Gemini?' — without writing code. Paste once, see side-by-side dollar costs across every major provider.
Pick tiktoken when…
You're inside a Python codebase enforcing token budgets, truncating prompts, or building a RAG chunker — and you need a fast, importable library. tiktoken is the right tool for that, but it only handles OpenAI tokenizers natively.
Ready to try Prompt Pricing?
Paste any prompt, see real cost across every major LLM — no Python required. Free, no signup, runs in your browser.
Open Prompt Pricing →Or visit tiktoken if you prefer their workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which is better for cross-provider price comparison — Prompt Pricing or tiktoken?
Prompt Pricing. tiktoken only handles OpenAI tokenization and returns token counts, not dollars. Prompt Pricing tokenizes for each provider using their own rules and then multiplies by the current per-million-token rate, so you get a head-to-head dollar comparison.
Is tiktoken free?
Yes — tiktoken is open-source MIT-licensed and free to pip install.
When should I use tiktoken instead?
When you are writing application code that needs to count tokens programmatically — for example, to enforce a context-window budget before an OpenAI API call.
Can tiktoken count Claude or Gemini tokens?
Not accurately. Each provider's tokenizer differs. tiktoken is OpenAI-specific. For Claude use the Anthropic token-counting endpoint or a UI tool like Prompt Pricing; for Gemini use Google's tokenizer.
Does Prompt Pricing stay up to date when providers change rates?
Yes — the rate card is a live data file; when Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google publish new prices we update it within the same day.