---
title: "Tokenization"
method: POST
path: "/serverless/v1/tokenize"
tags: ["Serverless.Token"]
---

# Tokenization

`POST /serverless/v1/tokenize`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.friendli.ai`
- URL: `https://api.friendli.ai/serverless/v1/tokenize`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/friendli/apis/friendli-suite-api-reference/docs/serverless/v1/tokenize/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

By giving a text input, generate a tokenized output of token IDs.

## Headers

- `X-Friendli-Team` string, nullable: ID of team to run requests as (optional parameter).

## Request body

- ServerlessTokenizationBody
  - `model` string, required: Code of the model to use. See [available model list](https://friendli.ai/docs/guides/model-apis/pricing#billing-methods).
  - `prompt` string, required: Input text prompt to tokenize.

## Response `200`

Successfully tokenized the text.

- ServerlessTokenizationSuccess
  - `tokens` integer[], required: A list of token IDs.

## Other responses

- `422`: Unprocessable Entity

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