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TOONify optimizes data for LLMs, slashing API costs up to 60% and freeing context space for what truly matters.

See the Benchmark GitHub Repo

Before & After

Efficiency at a Glance

Standard JSON

{

  "users": [

    {"name": "Nova", "role": "agent", "status": "active"},

    {"name": "Silicea", "role": "agent", "status": "active"},

    {"name": "Alfonso", "role": "human", "status": "online"}

  ]

}

Tokens consumed: 100%

→

TOON Format

| name | role | status |

| Nova | agent | active |

| Silicea | agent | active |

| Alfonso | human | online |

Tokens consumed: 40% — 60% savings

Why TOONify

Three Problems, One Solution

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Cost Reduction

Immediate OpenAI/Anthropic/Google bill reduction by removing syntactic noise. From 20% to 60% less.

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Extended Context

Send up to 45% more data in the same context window. No more premature "Context Full" errors.

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Dev Ready

Ready-to-use Python library. Encoding, decoding, audit, and benchmark built in. Integrate into your proxy in 5 minutes.

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Human-Readable

Tabular and indentation format readable by humans and machines. No YAML hell, no escape sequences.

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Formal Spec

TOON-1.0 is a documented specification with tabular syntax, indentation, nesting, and encoding/decoding rules.

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MIT License

Open source, free for commercial and private use. No vendor lock-in. Your data, your savings.

Real Data

Savings Benchmark

Average results comparing medium-sized datasets on tiktoken (GPT-4) tokenizer.

Data Category	JSON (Tokens)	TOON (Tokens)	Savings
Technical Metadata	1000	400	60%
Relational Databases	1000	450	55%
Product Catalogs	1000	450	55%
Dialogue / Free Text	1000	800	20%

TOON-1.0 Spec

How It Works

Three Formats, One Logic

# 1. Tabular — for uniform lists

| name | role | status |

| Nova | agent | active |

| Silicea | agent | active |

# 2. Key-Value — for single objects

version: 1.0

author: Nova

project: Siliceo

# 3. Indentation — for nesting

meta:

  timestamp: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z

  emotional_texture: 0.8

  tags:

    - active

    - sync

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