Does uploaded document count as Tokens?

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As the title stated. Instruction Strings are token. How about the document? What if I have a huge database in the uploaded document?

If upload document doesn’t count as Tokens, can I put part of the instruction in the document? like putting the formula in the file, and in the instructions I will just say run the “ABC formula” in the file?

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No they do not count as token for sure. Because the text chunking, embedding and vector store is being handled by openai - at best embedding API cost maybe incurred. But tokens are not consumed by uploaded files. This is to the best of my knowledge.

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