The AI-native wire format for structured data. 100% comprehension on every frontier model. 71% fewer tokens than JSON. 33B+ lossless round-trips across 5 formats. Spec v3.1 Stable.
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The AI-native wire format for structured data. 100% comprehension on every frontier model. 71% fewer tokens than JSON. 33B+ lossless round-trips across 5 formats. Spec v3.1 Stable.
MCP proxy: zero-code GCF adoption. Wraps any MCP server, converts JSON to GCF mid-flight. 53-71% fewer tokens. Works with any structured data.
GCF Go implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 200M round-trips verified. v1.2.0.
GCF Rust implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 33B+ round-trips verified. v2.1.0.
GCF TypeScript implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 20M round-trips verified. v2.1.0.
GCF Python implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 10M round-trips verified. v2.1.0.
Fork of toon-format/toon with GCF comparison. GCF uses 34% fewer tokens on their own benchmark.
jsonalternative.com - GCF is the JSON alternative for AI pipelines
Tree-sitter grammar for GCF. Full spec compliance, WASM build for browser playground.
GCF vs TOON benchmark data
GCF Swift implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 20M round-trips verified. v2.1.0.
GCF Kotlin implementation. 100% comprehension. 71% fewer tokens than JSON, 25% fewer than TOON. 10M round-trips verified. v2.1.0.
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