litellm/litellm-rust/crates/token-counter
devin-ai-integration[bot] 0abd9267c1
feat(tokenizer): preserve Python defaults with opt-in Rust dispatch (#42174)
* ci: benchmark and gate an installed release wheel

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* ci: simplify installed-wheel benchmark check

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* feat(rust): add native tokenizer codec

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* refactor(tokenizer): route Python tokenization through the Rust extension

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* style(lint): format tokenizer call

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* fix(packaging): restore runtime dependencies and native images

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* fix(tokenizer): preserve Python SDK behavior with Rust tokenizers

* fix(tokenizer): restore compatibility paths

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* refactor(tokenizer): count custom tokenizers directly

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* fix(tokenizer): preserve caller-supplied Python tokenizer counts

* fix(tokenizer): reuse packaged vocabularies in the native wheel

* refactor(rust_bridge): route token counting through the catalog as RUST_OPT_IN

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* fix(spend_tracking): compare tokenizer groups by value

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* chore(deps): re-resolve filelock under the <4.0 pin

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* fix(llms): align transformation override signatures with base configs

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* build(rust): use fat LTO to keep the native wheel under the 35 MB limit

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* feat(tokenizer): preserve Python defaults with opt-in Rust dispatch

* test(proxy): tolerate missing litellm.utils.Tokenizer when patching it

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* test(proxy): patch the tokenizer dispatch function instead of the removed alias

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* feat(tokenizer): give the Rust wrappers the tiktoken and tokenizers surface

Callers of litellm.encoding and litellm.create_tokenizer must see the same
read-only API whichever backend the catalog selects.

- OpenAIEncoding mirrors tiktoken.Encoding: n_vocab, max_token_value,
  token_byte_values, encode_single_token, encode_with_unstable,
  encode_to_numpy, decode_with_offsets, is_special_token, repr; the Rust
  tiktoken crate keeps a Vocabulary beside each CoreBPE and reports the
  requested encoding name (gpt2 stays gpt2).
- HuggingFaceTokenizer mirrors the read-only tokenizers.Tokenizer surface
  (token_to_id, id_to_token, get_vocab, get_vocab_size,
  get_added_tokens_decoder, num_special_tokens_to_add, padding, truncation,
  encode_special_tokens, from_buffer); HuggingFaceEncoding gains the
  char/word/token lookups, pad, truncate, set_sequence_id and merge.
  Mutators stay on the Python tokenizer.
- from_json/from_pretrained claim the fork gate only when the huggingface
  feature is compiled in; the surrogate fallback matches on the Codec.
- Tokenizer caching is keyed on the same catalog Context the dispatch runs
  on; rust_tokenizer reads the encoding name without loading an encoding;
  LITELLM_RUST parsing is cached.
- Drop the unused tiktoken_encoding_for_model export and Error::Download.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tokenizer): close the exhaustive matches with assert_never

CodeQL reads a `match` over a Literal with no default arm as an implicit
`None` return. `assert_never` makes the exhaustiveness explicit for both the
HuggingFace tokenizer loader and the Rust token-counter factory.

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* feat(tokenizer): derive the fast counter from the shared tokenizer

The count-only counter (`fast` feature) and the codec each parsed the same
artifact: TokenCounter took the Anthropic JSON and the tiktoken rank files
from Python while Tokenizer loaded them again. One parse now serves both.

- FastTokenizer builds from a model another loader holds: `from_shared`
  takes the Arc<tokenizers::Tokenizer> the HF codec keeps, and
  `from_*_pairs` take the ranks the tiktoken vocabulary already parsed.
- `FastCounter::fast_counter` in the core crate derives it from either codec;
  encodings the fast scanner does not reproduce are refused.
- Native `Tokenizer.count(text, fast=False)` opts into that counter, built
  once per tokenizer on first use; `TokenCounter.from_tokenizer(tokenizer,
  fast=False)` replaces the JSON and rank-file constructors.
- The Python route counts over the native tokenizers the codec path shares
  (`native_encoding`, `native_anthropic`) and no longer reads rank files;
  the packaged Anthropic tokenizer has one loader, `tokenizer_dispatch.anthropic`.
- Public wrappers gain `count(text, fast=False)`.

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Co-authored-by: Yujong Lee <yujong@berri.ai>
Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 04:41:11 +00:00
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benches refactor(rust): split token counter backends 2026-09-20 14:10:31 -07:00
src feat(tokenizer): preserve Python defaults with opt-in Rust dispatch (#42174) 2026-09-22 04:41:11 +00:00
tests fix(rust): validate tokenizer ranks and cover backend features 2026-09-20 15:13:59 -07:00
Cargo.toml test(rust): run fast token counter parity tests by default 2026-09-20 21:52:48 +00:00
README.md feat(tokenizer): preserve Python defaults with opt-in Rust dispatch (#42174) 2026-09-22 04:41:11 +00:00

Token counting

Tokenizer is the text-counting interface. TextCodec adds encoding, decoding, and a name. TokenCounter applies LiteLLM request, message, and tool accounting using any Tokenizer

Counts follow the codec: tiktoken treats special-token spellings as ordinary text, while Hugging Face applies its added tokens, post-processing, padding, and truncation. fast=True preserves those semantics and requests acceleration where available. Unsupported configurations use the normal codec, including tiktoken encodings without a scanner and builds without the fast feature. Invalid input and process-guard errors still propagate. Runtime request counting currently uses the normal codec; the custom accelerator is retained for explicit use and testing

FastCounter: TextCodec exposes an optional accelerator over a loaded codec. None means callers should use that codec. The Python bridge caches this selection per immutable tokenizer, shares it with request counters, and initializes it with the GIL released. Hugging Face can also choose the full encoder per input when added tokens require it

The fast feature provides fast::FastTokenizer from litellm-token-counter-fast. TokenCounter::from_json_fast uses this implementation

The huggingface feature provides huggingface::HuggingFaceTokenizer through the upstream tokenizers library. TokenCounter::from_json uses this implementation

The tiktoken feature provides tiktoken::TiktokenTokenizer through tiktoken-rs. Select an encoding with TokenCounter::from_tiktoken. The supported names are cl100k_base, o200k_base, o200k_harmony, p50k_base, p50k_edit, r50k_base, and gpt2

All three backends are enabled by default in this crate and the Python extension. With default-features = false, Rust callers can supply their own Tokenizer to TokenCounter::new without compiling a built-in backend

Python tiktoken and tokenizers remain runtime dependencies and the default implementations. The catalog independently selects the tokenizer and request-counting routes. Enabling Rust changes factory dispatch; existing tokenizer objects keep their backend. Native Hugging Face wrappers provide an immutable encoding and decoding API, while training and mutable configuration remain available through the Python backend

Budget checks, cost calculation, and the max_tokens adjustment policy belong to litellm-core-utils. The counter does not own prices, budgets, or request limits

Run the feature matrix with:

cargo test -p litellm-token-counter
cargo test -p litellm-token-counter --no-default-features
cargo test -p litellm-token-counter --no-default-features --features fast
cargo test -p litellm-token-counter --no-default-features --features huggingface
cargo test -p litellm-token-counter --no-default-features --features tiktoken