khalas (خلص) — Arabic Prompt Optimizer

artok shows you pay more. arabench shows you get less. khalas fixes it.

Why

Same prompt costs 2-5x more in Arabic. Tokenizers fragment Arabic characters into byte sequences, inflating token counts and API bills.

khalas compares Arabic vs English side by side, then optimizes the Arabic prompt to use fewer tokens without losing quality.

Install

pip install khalas

Quick Start

khalas compare "الذكاء الاصطناعي يغير العالم" "AI is changing the world" --provider openai

Commands

Command	Description
compare	Side-by-side AR vs EN token count and cost
optimize	Rewrite Arabic prompt to reduce tokens
savings	Show how much you save after optimization
explain	Break down where tokens are wasted
config	Set default provider and API keys

Optimization Techniques

Technique	What it does
Language Hint	Prepend language context to guide tokenizer
Simplify	Replace complex Arabic structures with simpler equivalents
English Backbone	Keep instructions in English, content in Arabic
Bilingual Instruction	Mix EN structure with AR key terms
Shorten	Remove filler words and redundancy

Supported Providers

Provider	Model (March 2026)
OpenAI	gpt-5.4
Anthropic	claude-opus-4-6
Google	gemini-3.1-pro
DeepSeek	deepseek-v3.2
Mistral	mistral-large-3
Groq	groq-llama-4
Qwen	qwen-3.5
xAI	grok-2

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مقدمة من مجتمع الذكاء الاصطناعي السعودي للعرب أولا وللعالم أجمع

Brought to you by the Saudi AI Community — for Arabs first, and the world at large.

The Series

• artok — Arabic Token Tax Calculator
• bidi-guard — Trojan Source Attack Scanner
• arabench — Arabic LLM Benchmark
• majal — Arabic AI Tools Hub
• khalas — Arabic Prompt Optimizer

License

MIT — Musa the Carpenter