`tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens
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Little tool that I made to understand how (un)reasonable my prompts are.
HN · launched Jan 12, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 58%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A CLI tool counting LLM tokens simply reads STDIN or files and passes text through existing tokenizer libraries like tiktoken, requiring just a few dozen lines of code.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 74 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tokensift, an open-sourced token-efficiency linter for LLM prompts · hn · 2026-08-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- CTON: JSON-compatible, token-efficient text format for LLM prompts · hn · 2025-11-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PrePrompt · hn · 2026-04-28 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- An LLM translator whose source is a single prompt · hn · 2026-05-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Reducing LLM input tokens by 70% · hn · 2026-05-12 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- prompt-poet · github · 2026-11-05 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TokenGate · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- A tool to properly observe your LLM's context window · hn · 2025-10-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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