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TOON's sweet spot is **uniform arrays of objects** – multiple fields per row, same structure across items. It borrows YAML's indentation-based structure for nested objects and CSV's tabular format for uniform data rows, then optimizes both for token efficiency in LLM contexts. For deeply nested or non-uniform data, JSON may be more efficient. TOON's sweet spot is **uniform arrays of objects** – multiple fields per row, same structure across items. It borrows YAML's indentation-based structure for nested objects and CSV's tabular format for uniform data rows, then optimizes both for token efficiency in LLM contexts. For deeply nested or non-uniform data, JSON may be more efficient.
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> Think of TOON as a translation layer: use JSON programmatically, convert to TOON for LLM input.
## Why TOON? ## Why TOON?
AI is becoming cheaper and more accessible, but larger context windows allow for larger data inputs as well. **LLM tokens still cost money** – and standard JSON is verbose and token-expensive: AI is becoming cheaper and more accessible, but larger context windows allow for larger data inputs as well. **LLM tokens still cost money** – and standard JSON is verbose and token-expensive: