Calculate the number of language model tokens for a string (blog.mastykarz.nl)

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  import tiktoken
  enc = tiktoken.encoding_for_model('o1-mini')
  len(enc.encode('some string'))

Does that work on anything other than openai?

No but most models have their own libs you can use