Tokensift, an open-sourced token-efficiency linter for LLM prompts
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HN · launched Aug 29, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: prompt engineering and management tools · 173 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A prompt linter can be built as a standard CLI or package using tiktoken or regex heuristics to identify bloated phrasing, whitespace, and token overhead.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Prompt optimization tools, Token counting libraries
Concerns raised: Doesn't handle multimodal (image/audio/video) token usage, No Gemini support yet, Only analyzes textual portions of multimodal prompts
Feature requests: Add multimodal token calculation (images, audio, video), Add Gemini model support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3169 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2183 of 3170 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- CTON: JSON-compatible, token-efficient text format for LLM prompts · hn · 2025-11-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.83
- prompt-poet · github · 2026-11-05 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- KillSwitch · hn · 2026-09-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- rizzo-flow · github · 2026-09-21 · 455 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- PrePrompt · hn · 2026-04-28 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- TokenPath · hn · 2026-07-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Reducing LLM input tokens by 70% · hn · 2026-05-12 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- LLM Wiki · hn · 2026-04-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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