By skyforbes 
Did you know that using non-English languages with ChatGPT can cost you 30-70% more tokens for the same content?
Token efficiency by language:
– English: 1.16 tokens per word
– French: 1.52 tokens per word (+31%)
– German: 1.52 tokens per word (+31%)
– Spanish: 1.56 tokens per word (+34%)
– Portuguese: 1.60 tokens per word (+38%)
What this means for you:
– You hit rate limits 30-70% faster
– Your context window is effectively 30-70% smaller
– API costs are 30-70% higher
– Free tier limits expire much quicker
After discovering this, I'm switching to English-only for all my LLM interactions. If you're constantly hitting limits or wondering why your API bills are so high, this might be why.