How to Count Gemini Tokens Locally

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-count-gemini-tokens-locally. Learn how Gemini tokenizes text, images, audio, video and PDFs, and how to count tokens locally or through the Gemini API. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #artificial-intelligence, #tokenization, #token, #gemini, #multimodal, #llm, #jupyter-notebook, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @picardparis. Learn more about this writer by checking @picardparis's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This article explores how Gemini tokenizes data and demonstrates how to count or estimate tokens locally. You'll learn how to use the local tokenizer to estimate text token counts offline, understand the tokenization math for multimodal inputs (images, audio, video, PDFs), and see how to retrieve precise token usage metadata from API responses for accurate tracking and billing.