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		andrewmunsell on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs Roughly speaking, words or word parts. Open AI has an explainer: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-... You can also check your input using their tokenizer: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer So, your example is ~9 tokens

chirau on March 1, 2023 [–]

So does the response count towards the token count?

andrewmunsell on March 2, 2023 | [–]

It does, yeah. It's tokens "processed", meaning request & response. The API response will give you a total token count so you can keep track

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