# Unexpected token **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs / Site Issues\ **Created:** [December 12, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885 "2024-12-12T00:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![equipeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@equipeid](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/equipeid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/1 "2024-12-12T00:11:27Z")
Hi admins, Some users are relating the “unexpected token” problem when they try to use the pickaxe. Please help me fix. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/2 "2024-12-12T19:57:36Z")
This may have been related to OpenAI going down yesterday. Please let me know if it continues to occur. ---
**Author:** ![equipeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@equipeid](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/equipeid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/3 "2025-01-07T14:17:03Z")
Hi Mike, We still have users overtime that are complaining about this issue. Could you please help me? Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/4 "2025-01-07T22:56:45Z")
can you send me a link to the too? I will look into it. ---
**Author:** ![equipeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@equipeid](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/equipeid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/5 "2025-01-07T23:07:56Z")
Yes. Here it is: [https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD\_Level\_Scientific\_Writing\_Assistant\_YO12C](https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD_Level_Scientific_Writing_Assistant_YO12C) ---
**Author:** ![equipeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@equipeid](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/equipeid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/6 "2025-01-08T19:09:50Z")
> [@equipeid](#): > > [https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD\_Level\_Scientific\_Writing\_Assistant\_YO12C](https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD_Level_Scientific_Writing_Assistant_YO12C) Mike, did you have the chance to fix it? Other users are complaining the same. Here we have a pickaxe example: [https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD\_Level\_Scientific\_Writing\_Assistant\_YO12C](https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=PhD_Level_Scientific_Writing_Assistant_YO12C) ---
**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/7 "2025-01-08T20:47:09Z")
I could not generate the error myself when I used the tool. But looking at your settings I think it’s because you have the token limit at like 127,500/128,000 tokens so you really maxed it out. That means there’s no room for error and sometimes token counting gets funky. I adjusted it and it should work now. Please let me know if you continue to get any errors. ---
**Author:** ![equipeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@equipeid](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/equipeid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/8 "2025-01-08T20:51:17Z")
Hi Mike, Thanks. What is a safe token limit? I think I’ll need to adjust to other pickaxes. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/unexpected-token/2885/9 "2025-01-08T20:57:10Z")
Our token counting system is good, but not perfect. As its hard to always accurately tokenize. So it is possible for us to count a request at 100 tokens, then send it to OpenAI and for them to count it at 101 tokens. The reasons for this are quite complicated. You’re using a model with a 128,000 token context window. It’s quite unlikely you really want to use all of that context. I would give it a couple thousand tokens as a buffer. Just to be safe.