AI companies charge you 60% more based on your language, BPE tokens (tokenstree.com) AI

The article argues that AI providers bill for non-standard “tokens” created by different tokenizer designs, which can make the same prompt cost up to ~60% more for non‑English languages. It describes how varying tokenization and provider pricing gaps can significantly change total costs across models and regions. It also promotes TokensTree as an infrastructure layer to normalize token accounting and reduce repeat token consumption via caching (and claims language-toll mitigation).