# Gigatoken: Fastest Tokenizer > Source: > Published: 2026-07-22 00:13:21+00:00 Introducing the world's fastest tokenizer implementation, Gigatoken! Gigatoken is ~500-1000x faster than HuggingFace, and ~100x faster than OpenAI's tiktoken for most tokenizer definitions on most machines. These baselines are already multithreaded Rust implementations! 🧵