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He took Rich Sutton’s famous 2019 essay The Bitter Lesson","\u003Cp>There’s a quiet, expensive reality hiding inside every prompt you send to Claude: \u003Cstrong>if you’re not writing in English, you’re paying a steep linguistic tax.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>On April 28, 2026, \u003Ca href=\"https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/2049125048792006965\">AI researcher Aran Komatsuzaki ran a simple but devastating experiment. He took Rich Sutton’s famous 2019 essay \u003Cstrong>The Bitter Lesson\u003C/strong>\u003C/a> — a foundational text in AI — translated it into multiple languages, and fed each version through the tokenizers of OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude). He then normalized everything against the English version on OpenAI’s tokenizer as the 1.0× baseline.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/photo_2026-05-06_12-04-47.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg class=\"image-align-center\"  alt=\"Claude Is the Most Expensive AI — If You Don’t Speak English\" height=\"174\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/photo_2026-05-06_12-04-47.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The results were brutal for non-English speakers — and especially brutal for Claude users.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>The Numbers Don’t Lie\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/2026-05-06_12-07-29.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Claude Is the Most Expensive AI — If You Don’t Speak English\" height=\"103\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/2026-05-06_12-07-29.png\" width=\"400\" />\u003C/picture>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Same text. Same meaning. But on Claude, a Hindi user burns through \u003Cstrong>more than three times\u003C/strong> as many tokens as an English speaker would. An Arabic speaker pays nearly 3×. Even Chinese — one of the world’s most widely used languages — costs 71% more on Claude than the English baseline.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>This isn’t a minor inefficiency. It’s a direct hit to your wallet and your context window.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>What “Linguistic Tax” Actually Means\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121400142.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Claude Is the Most Expensive AI — If You Don’t Speak English\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121400142.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Modern LLMs don’t understand raw characters — they process text as \u003Cstrong>tokens\u003C/strong>. The tokenizer (the algorithm that chops text into these bite-sized pieces) was overwhelmingly trained on English data. Languages with different scripts, morphologies, or writing systems get fragmented into far more (and smaller) tokens than English does.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Result?\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>You pay \u003Cstrong>more per message\u003C/strong> (input tokens = money).\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>You hit the context window \u003Cstrong>faster\u003C/strong>.\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>The model has to do more work per idea, which can subtly affect latency and even reasoning quality.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>Anthropic’s tokenizer is noticeably worse at this than OpenAI’s. In follow-up tests across more languages and models, Komatsuzaki found Anthropic consistently levies the \u003Cstrong>highest non-English tax\u003C/strong> of any major provider.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Chinese models (Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi) actually treat Chinese more efficiently than English. Gemini and Qwen performed best overall for non-English text. Claude stood alone at the top of the penalty list.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Why This Hits Harder Than It Looks\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121405125.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Claude Is the Most Expensive AI — If You Don’t Speak English\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"402\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121405125.jpg\" width=\"270\" />\u003C/picture>For English-native users, this is invisible. For the majority of the world — Hindi speakers in India, Arabic users across the Middle East and North Africa, Chinese speakers, and countless others — it’s a structural disadvantage.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>A $20/month Claude subscription suddenly feels a lot more expensive when every prompt costs 2–3× more tokens.\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>In regions where AI access is already a larger percentage of median income, the tax compounds the inequality.\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>Developers building multilingual apps or agents get slammed with higher API bills and more frequent context overflows.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>And the irony is thick: \u003Cstrong>The Bitter Lesson\u003C/strong> itself argues that general methods that scale with compute eventually beat clever human-designed shortcuts. Yet here we are — tokenizers, the very first step in the pipeline, still carrying heavy human biases from training data distribution.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Cp>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/suno-the-ozempic-of-the-music-industry-everyone-s-on-it-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it\">Suno: The Ozempic of the Music Industry – Everyone’s on It, But No One Wants to Talk About It\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/netflix-breaks-its-own-rules-greta-gerwig-s-narnia-gets-a-full-49-day-theatrical-window-the-streamer-s-first-true-wide-release\">Netflix Breaks Its Own Rules: Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Gets a Full 49-Day Theatrical Window — The Streamer’s First True Wide Release\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/ai-music-is-flooding-streaming-services-and-platforms-are-getting-nervous\">AI Music Is Flooding Streaming Services — and Platforms Are Getting Nervous\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/netflix-launches-playground-ad-free-offline-gaming-app-for-kids-no-ads-no-in-app-purchases\">Netflix Launches ‘Playground’: Ad-Free, Offline Gaming App for Kids — No Ads, No In-App Purchases\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>The Bitter Lesson for Tokenizers\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121402194.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Claude Is the Most Expensive AI — If You Don’t Speak English\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"298\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-05-06t121402194.jpg\" width=\"200\" />\u003C/picture>Komatsuzaki’s experiment is a modern echo of Sutton’s original point. 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