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How can I calculate how many tokens my prompt engineering templates will consume before I send them to the OpenAI API endpoint?

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How can I calculate how many tokens my prompt engineering templates will consume before I send them to the OpenAI API endpoint?
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  2. Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com
  3. Advanced usage · developers.openai.com

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