diff --git a/include/tokenizers_c.h b/include/tokenizers_c.h
index 6563f53..4276ee8 100644
--- a/include/tokenizers_c.h
+++ b/include/tokenizers_c.h
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ extern "C" {
 
 typedef void* TokenizerHandle;
 
+typedef struct {
+    int* token_ids;
+    size_t len;
+} TokenizerEncodeResult;
+
 TokenizerHandle tokenizers_new_from_str(const char* json, size_t len);
 
 TokenizerHandle byte_level_bpe_tokenizers_new_from_str(const char* vocab, size_t vocab_len,
@@ -23,15 +28,18 @@ TokenizerHandle byte_level_bpe_tokenizers_new_from_str(const char* vocab, size_t
                                                        const char* added_tokens,
                                                        size_t added_tokens_len);
 
-void tokenizers_encode(TokenizerHandle handle, const char* data, size_t len, int add_special_token);
+void tokenizers_encode(TokenizerHandle handle, const char* data, size_t len, int add_special_token, TokenizerEncodeResult* result);
+
+void tokenizers_encode_batch(TokenizerHandle handle, const char** data, size_t* len, size_t num_seqs,
+                                 int add_special_token, TokenizerEncodeResult* results);
+
+void tokenizers_free_encode_results(TokenizerEncodeResult* results, size_t num_seqs);
 
 void tokenizers_decode(TokenizerHandle handle, const uint32_t* data, size_t len,
                        int skip_special_token);
 
 void tokenizers_get_decode_str(TokenizerHandle handle, const char** data, size_t* len);
 
-void tokenizers_get_encode_ids(TokenizerHandle handle, const uint32_t** id_data, size_t* len);
-
 void tokenizers_get_vocab_size(TokenizerHandle handle, size_t* size);
 
 void tokenizers_id_to_token(TokenizerHandle handle, uint32_t id, const char** data, size_t* len);
diff --git a/include/tokenizers_cpp.h b/include/tokenizers_cpp.h
index 7de6721..d37aa57 100644
--- a/include/tokenizers_cpp.h
+++ b/include/tokenizers_cpp.h
@@ -29,6 +29,21 @@ class Tokenizer {
    */
   virtual std::vector<int32_t> Encode(const std::string& text) = 0;
 
+  /*!
+   * \brief Encode a batch of texts into ids.
+   * \param texts The input texts.
+   * \returns The encoded token ids.
+   */
+  virtual std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> EncodeBatch(const std::vector<std::string>& texts) {
+    // Fall back when the derived class does not implement this function.
+    std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> ret;
+    ret.reserve(texts.size());
+    for (const auto& text : texts) {
+      ret.push_back(Encode(text));
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+
   /*!
    * \brief Decode token ids into text.
    * \param text The token ids.
diff --git a/rust/src/lib.rs b/rust/src/lib.rs
index 10206a0..98ce523 100644
--- a/rust/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/src/lib.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ use tokenizers::tokenizer::Tokenizer;
 
 pub struct TokenizerWrapper {
     tokenizer: Tokenizer,
-    encode_ids: Vec<u32>,
     decode_str: String,
     id_to_token_result: String,
 }
@@ -15,11 +14,16 @@ pub struct TokenizerWrapper {
 pub type Vocab = HashMap<String, u32>;
 pub type Merges = Vec<(String, String)>;
 
+#[repr(C)]
+pub struct TokenizerEncodeResult {
+    token_ids: *mut u32,
+    len: usize,
+}
+
 impl TokenizerWrapper {
     pub fn from_str(json: &str) -> TokenizerWrapper {
         TokenizerWrapper {
             tokenizer: Tokenizer::from_str(json).unwrap().into(),
-            encode_ids: Vec::new(),
             decode_str: String::new(),
             id_to_token_result: String::new(),
         }
@@ -77,16 +81,22 @@ impl TokenizerWrapper {
             .with_decoder(byte_level);
         TokenizerWrapper {
             tokenizer: tokenizer,
-            encode_ids: Vec::new(),
             decode_str: String::new(),
             id_to_token_result: String::new(),
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn encode(&mut self, text: &str, add_special_tokens: bool) {
+    pub fn encode(&mut self, text: &str, add_special_tokens: bool) -> Vec<u32> {
         let encoded = self.tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens).unwrap();
-        self.encode_ids.resize(encoded.len(), 0);
-        self.encode_ids.copy_from_slice(encoded.get_ids());
+        return encoded.get_ids().to_vec();
+    }
+
+    pub fn encode_batch(&mut self, texts: Vec<&str>, add_special_tokens: bool) -> Vec<Vec<u32>> {
+        let results = self.tokenizer.encode_batch(texts, add_special_tokens).unwrap()
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|encoded| encoded.get_ids().to_vec())
+            .collect::<Vec<Vec<u32>>>();
+        return results;
     }
 
     pub fn decode(&mut self, ids: &[u32], skip_special_tokens: bool) {
@@ -135,22 +145,53 @@ extern "C" fn tokenizers_encode(
     input_cstr: *const u8,
     len: usize,
     add_special_tokens: i32,
+    out_result: *mut TokenizerEncodeResult,
 ) {
     unsafe {
         let input_data = std::str::from_utf8(std::slice::from_raw_parts(input_cstr, len)).unwrap();
-        (*handle).encode(input_data, add_special_tokens != 0);
+        let encoded = (*handle).encode(input_data, add_special_tokens != 0);
+        let len = encoded.len();
+        *out_result = TokenizerEncodeResult {
+            token_ids: Box::into_raw(encoded.into_boxed_slice()) as *mut u32,
+            len: len,
+        };
     }
 }
 
 #[no_mangle]
-extern "C" fn tokenizers_get_encode_ids(
+extern "C" fn tokenizers_encode_batch(
     handle: *mut TokenizerWrapper,
-    out_data: *mut *mut u32,
-    out_len: *mut usize,
+    input_cstr: *const *const u8,
+    input_len: *const usize,
+    num_seqs: usize,
+    add_special_tokens: i32,
+    out_result: *mut TokenizerEncodeResult,
 ) {
     unsafe {
-        *out_data = (*handle).encode_ids.as_mut_ptr();
-        *out_len = (*handle).encode_ids.len()
+        let input_data = (0..num_seqs)
+            .map(|i| {
+                std::str::from_utf8(std::slice::from_raw_parts(*input_cstr.offset(i as isize), *input_len.offset(i as isize))).unwrap()
+            })
+            .collect::<Vec<&str>>();
+        let encoded_batch = (*handle).encode_batch(input_data, add_special_tokens != 0);
+        for (i, encoded) in encoded_batch.into_iter().enumerate() {
+            let len = encoded.len();
+            let result = TokenizerEncodeResult {
+                token_ids: Box::into_raw(encoded.into_boxed_slice()) as *mut u32,
+                len: len,
+            };
+            *out_result.offset(i as isize) = result;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+extern "C" fn tokenizers_free_encode_results(results: *mut TokenizerEncodeResult, num_seqs: usize) {
+    unsafe {
+        let slice = std::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(results, num_seqs);
+        for result in &mut *slice {
+            drop(Box::from_raw(std::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(result.token_ids, result.len)));
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/huggingface_tokenizer.cc b/src/huggingface_tokenizer.cc
index 17138e1..3657305 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_tokenizer.cc
+++ b/src/huggingface_tokenizer.cc
@@ -28,18 +28,44 @@ class HFTokenizer : public Tokenizer {
 
   // use i32 to be consistent with sentencepiece
   std::vector<int32_t> Encode(const std::string& text, bool add_special_tokens) {
-    tokenizers_encode(handle_, text.data(), text.length(), static_cast<int>(add_special_tokens));
-    const uint32_t* data;
-    size_t len;
-    tokenizers_get_encode_ids(handle_, &data, &len);
-    const int32_t* data_i32 = reinterpret_cast<const int32_t*>(data);
-    auto res = std::vector<int32_t>(data_i32, data_i32 + len);
-    return res;
+    TokenizerEncodeResult result;
+    tokenizers_encode(handle_, text.data(), text.length(), static_cast<int>(add_special_tokens),
+                      &result);
+    std::vector<int32_t> ret(result.token_ids, result.token_ids + result.len);
+    tokenizers_free_encode_results(&result, 1);
+    return ret;
   }
 
-  // use i32 to be consistent with sentencepiece
-  std::vector<int32_t> Encode(const std::string& text) final {
-    return Encode(text, false);
+   // use i32 to be consistent with sentencepiece
+   std::vector<int32_t> Encode(const std::string& text) final {
+     return Encode(text, false);
+   }
+
+  std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> EncodeBatch(const std::vector<std::string>& texts, bool add_special_tokens) final {
+    std::vector<const char*> texts_raw;
+    std::vector<size_t> seq_lens;
+    size_t num_seqs = texts.size();
+    texts_raw.reserve(num_seqs);
+    seq_lens.reserve(num_seqs);
+    for (const auto& text : texts) {
+      texts_raw.push_back(text.data());
+      seq_lens.push_back(text.length());
+    }
+    std::vector<TokenizerEncodeResult> results(num_seqs);
+    tokenizers_encode_batch(handle_, texts_raw.data(), seq_lens.data(), texts.size(),
+                            static_cast<int>(add_special_tokens), results.data());
+    std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> ret;
+    ret.reserve(texts.size());
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < texts.size(); ++i) {
+      ret.push_back(
+          std::vector<int32_t>(results[i].token_ids, results[i].token_ids + results[i].len));
+    }
+    tokenizers_free_encode_results(results.data(), texts.size());
+    return ret;
+  }
+
+  std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> EncodeBatch(const std::vector<std::string>& texts) final {
+    return EncodeBatch(texts, false);
   }
 
   // use i32 to be consistent with sentencepiece