Concept
What is Token?
The basic unit of text that LLMs process. One token is approximately 0.75 words or 4 characters in English. The word "LLMCheck" might be split into 3 tokens. Token counts determine context window limits and generation speed. When LLMCheck reports ~100 tok/s for Qwen 3.5 9B, that translates to roughly 75 words per second of generated text.
Where Token comes up on LLMCheck
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