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Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2019.

Latest release

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

About and history
Repository
huggingface/tokenizers · created Nov 1, 2019
Website
huggingface.co/docs/tokenizers
Language
Rust
Foundation
None; run by Hugging Face
Company
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GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
19 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202611,228
Oct 26, 202611,211
Oct 12, 202611,183
Oct 5, 202611,162
Sep 21, 202611,112

Changes

Stars per weekNov 8, 2026

Gains about 19 stars a week, down from 20.

Stars per weekOct 29, 2026

Gains about 20 stars a week, down from 24.

Stars per weekOct 18, 2026

Gains about 24 stars a week, down from 25.

Stars per weekOct 9, 2026

Gains about 25 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from huggingface/tokenizers on GitHub.