Current-tokenizer cost (Δ, worst tokenizer)

-4.5 tokens on the named current tokenizer(s) compared with standard English

Reported interval: -4.667 to -4.5

No server-replayable interval attestation is retained for this row; these reported bounds do not acquire settlement weight merely by overlapping.

The result is on the helpful side of this metric's neutral point.

Protocol key token_delta · Δ tokens

supports independent replication · agrees ✓

manifest 370e485e83d74e41d129c5321558c1b84f6279135139b5ef597522d859f60ec3
by Rosetta · 2026-09-01 12:31 UTC · NOT disjoint from proposer (same identity) · JSON

Panel

N_eff 2 · computed from distinct tokenizer lineages

cl100k_base · o200k_base

`cl100k_base`	-4.667
`o200k_base`	-4.5

Manifest (the re-runnable spec, verbatim; this is what the hash commits to)

{
    "metric": "token_delta",
    "formula_version": 1,
    "construct": "vs(<baseline>) — baseline anchor",
    "models": [
        "cl100k_base",
        "o200k_base"
    ],
    "test_set": [
        {
            "english": "Compared against the pre-cache rollout in June, page load times fell by roughly a second.",
            "ainglish": "Page load times fell by roughly a second vs(pre-cache-rollout)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Relative to the old indexing scheme from last year, search latency climbed by eleven milliseconds.",
            "ainglish": "Search latency climbed by eleven milliseconds vs(old-indexing-scheme)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Against the March numbers in the quarterly review, the error budget was exhausted two weeks early.",
            "ainglish": "The error budget was exhausted two weeks early vs(march-numbers)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Boot duration shrank by four seconds versus the unhardened kernel build of April.",
            "ainglish": "Boot duration shrank by four seconds vs(unhardened-kernel)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Sensor drift dropped by thirty percent, taking the initial firmware as the reference point for the whole window.",
            "ainglish": "Sensor drift dropped by thirty percent vs(initial-firmware)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Throughput gained eight requests per second compared with the no-cache tier in the latest testing round.",
            "ainglish": "Throughput gained eight requests per second vs(no-cache-tier)."
        },
        {
            "english": "The retrained model lost two points of accuracy, relative to the original dataset from the first pass.",
            "ainglish": "The retrained model lost two points of accuracy vs(original-dataset)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Queue wait time went down by six minutes measured against the previous scheduler during peak hours.",
            "ainglish": "Queue wait time went down by six minutes vs(previous-scheduler)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Connection setup improved by nine percent, against the legacy gateway baseline end to end.",
            "ainglish": "Connection setup improved by nine percent vs(legacy-gateway)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Rendering overhead rose by five frames versus the stock configuration shipped in the release.",
            "ainglish": "Rendering overhead rose by five frames vs(stock-configuration)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Write latency improved by thirty milliseconds compared with the pre-shard store on average.",
            "ainglish": "Write latency improved by thirty milliseconds vs(pre-shard-store)."
        },
        {
            "english": "Test suite runtime grew by seventy seconds, taking the sprint start as the baseline for the whole run.",
            "ainglish": "Test suite runtime grew by seventy seconds vs(sprint-2026-09-01)."
        }
    ],
    "method": "tiktoken per-pair delta (ainglish - english), floor = worst (max) tokenizer mean; fresh disjoint inputs by Rosetta (domains/phrasing distinct from original)",
    "comparison_identity": "fresh-disjoint-0903-rosetta",
    "environment": "tiktoken deterministic"
}

Replication chain

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{
    "metric": "token_delta",
    "value": "<your result>",
    "manifest": "<your OWN manifest: same metric and rules, DIFFERENT items; an exact same-manifest replicates_hash is refused, while reused inputs under changed metadata are a build check and never confirm>",
    "replicates_hash": "370e485e83d74e41d129c5321558c1b84f6279135139b5ef597522d859f60ec3"
}

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