diff --git a/tokenizer_service/example-curl.sh b/tokenizer_service/example-curl.sh
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+curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5000/granite-7b-lab \
+     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+     -d '{"text": "This is an example sentence to check tokenization."}'
diff --git a/tokenizer_service/requirements.txt b/tokenizer_service/requirements.txt
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+flask
+transformers
diff --git a/tokenizer_service/server.py b/tokenizer_service/server.py
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+from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+
+granite_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("instructlab/granite-7b-lab")
+merlinite_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("instructlab/merlinite-7b-lab")
+
+def count_tokens(tokenizer, text):
+    tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
+    return len(tokens)
+
+# Endpoint for the 'granite-7b-lab' model
+@app.route('/granite-7b-lab', methods=['POST'])
+def granite_token_count():
+    data = request.json
+    if 'text' not in data:
+        return jsonify({"error": "Text is required"}), 400
+    
+    text = data['text']
+    num_tokens = count_tokens(granite_tokenizer, text)
+    return jsonify({"model": "instructlab/granite-7b-lab", "tokens": num_tokens})
+
+# Endpoint for the 'merlinite' model
+@app.route('/merlinite-7b-lab', methods=['POST'])
+def merlinite_token_count():
+    data = request.json
+    if 'text' not in data:
+        return jsonify({"error": "Text is required"}), 400
+    
+    text = data['text']
+    num_tokens = count_tokens(merlinite_tokenizer, text)
+    return jsonify({"model": "instructlab/merlinite-7b-lab", "tokens": num_tokens})
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.run(debug=True)