gpt-3-token-counter

GPT-3 Token Counter is a simple VS Code extension to help you count the number of tokens in a selected piece of text. This is helpful for ensuring that you don't go over your token count when writing software that sends chat messages to GPT-3 models.

Features

This extension adds an item to the status bar menu that will tell you how many GPT-3 tokens are in the currently selected text.

In order to run the extension, open the command pallet, and select GPT-3: Count number of tokens in selected text

Known Issues

1. This extension works only for GPT-3 models, and not other models that may create different tokens for different strings
2. Larger text takes a longer time to computer