Hidden Tokenization Differences Make Claude 73% More Expensive Than GPT for the Same TypeScript Code
The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x - 1.73x more for identical code. We measured every frontier tokenizer to show why the headline $/Mtok…
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