Cohere Tokenize API

The Cohere Tokenize API splits input text into tokens using the tokenizer associated with a specified model. It returns both the token strings and their corresponding token IDs. This is useful for understanding how text will be processed by Cohere models, estimating token counts for billing purposes, and debugging input formatting issues.

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cohere-tokenize-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Cohere Chat Tokenize API
  description: The Cohere Chat API enables developers to integrate large language model text generation capabilities into their applications through a conversational interface. It supports multi-turn conversations, tool use with JSON schema definitions, retrieval-augmented generation, and streaming responses. The API is available via the v2 endpoint and works with Cohere's Command family of models.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Cohere Support
    url: https://support.cohere.com
  termsOfService: https://cohere.com/terms-of-use
servers:
- url: https://api.cohere.com
  description: Cohere Production Server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Tokenize
  description: Endpoints for splitting text into tokens using byte-pair encoding for a specified Cohere model.
paths:
  /v1/tokenize:
    post:
      operationId: tokenize
      summary: Tokenize text
      description: Splits input text into smaller units called tokens using byte-pair encoding (BPE) for the specified model. Returns both the token strings and their corresponding integer token IDs. The text must be between 1 and 65536 characters.
      tags:
      - Tokenize
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenizeRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful tokenization response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenizeResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request due to invalid parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized due to missing or invalid API key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable error message describing what went wrong.
    TokenizeRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - text
      - model
      properties:
        text:
          type: string
          description: The string to be tokenized. Must be between 1 and 65536 characters.
          minLength: 1
          maxLength: 65536
        model:
          type: string
          description: The name of the model whose tokenizer will be used to tokenize the input text.
          example: command-r-plus
    TokenizeResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        tokens:
          type: array
          description: An array of token strings resulting from tokenizing the input text.
          items:
            type: string
        token_strings:
          type: array
          description: An array of token strings corresponding to each token.
          items:
            type: string
        meta:
          type: object
          description: Metadata about the API request.
          properties:
            api_version:
              type: object
              properties:
                version:
                  type: string
                  description: The API version used for the request.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer authentication using a Cohere API key. Pass the API key in the Authorization header as Bearer <token>.
externalDocs:
  description: Cohere Chat API Documentation
  url: https://docs.cohere.com/reference/chat