diff --git a/LLama/LLamaEmbedder.cs b/LLama/LLamaEmbedder.cs
index 24b6ee80..a74f11ee 100644
--- a/LLama/LLamaEmbedder.cs
+++ b/LLama/LLamaEmbedder.cs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ namespace LLama
                 text = text.Insert(0, " ");
             }
 
-            var embed_inp_array = Utils.Tokenize(_ctx, text, addBos, Encoding.GetEncoding(encoding)).ToArray();
+            var embed_inp_array = _ctx.Tokenize(text, addBos, Encoding.GetEncoding(encoding));
 
             // TODO(Rinne): deal with log of prompt
 
diff --git a/LLama/LLamaInstructExecutor.cs b/LLama/LLamaInstructExecutor.cs
index e055c147..ae7035c9 100644
--- a/LLama/LLamaInstructExecutor.cs
+++ b/LLama/LLamaInstructExecutor.cs
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ namespace LLama
         public InstructExecutor(LLamaModel model, string instructionPrefix = "\n\n### Instruction:\n\n",
             string instructionSuffix = "\n\n### Response:\n\n") : base(model)
         {
-            _inp_pfx = _model.Tokenize(instructionPrefix, true).ToArray();
-            _inp_sfx = _model.Tokenize(instructionSuffix, false).ToArray();
+            _inp_pfx = _model.Tokenize(instructionPrefix, true);
+            _inp_sfx = _model.Tokenize(instructionSuffix, false);
             _instructionPrefix = instructionPrefix;
         }
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ namespace LLama
 
                 _embed_inps.AddRange(_inp_sfx);
 
-                args.RemainedTokens -= line_inp.Count();
+                args.RemainedTokens -= line_inp.Length;
             }
         }
         /// <inheritdoc />
diff --git a/LLama/LLamaInteractExecutor.cs b/LLama/LLamaInteractExecutor.cs
index f5c1583e..3b0b13be 100644
--- a/LLama/LLamaInteractExecutor.cs
+++ b/LLama/LLamaInteractExecutor.cs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ namespace LLama
         /// <param name="model"></param>
         public InteractiveExecutor(LLamaModel model) : base(model)
         {
-            _llama_token_newline = Utils.Tokenize(_model.NativeHandle, "\n", false, _model.Encoding).ToArray();
+            _llama_token_newline = _model.NativeHandle.Tokenize("\n", false, _model.Encoding);
         }
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ namespace LLama
                 }
                 var line_inp = _model.Tokenize(text, false);
                 _embed_inps.AddRange(line_inp);
-                args.RemainedTokens -= line_inp.Count();
+                args.RemainedTokens -= line_inp.Length;
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/LLama/LLamaModel.cs b/LLama/LLamaModel.cs
index 2bd31199..4bc18c1e 100644
--- a/LLama/LLamaModel.cs
+++ b/LLama/LLamaModel.cs
@@ -64,10 +64,9 @@ namespace LLama
         /// <param name="text"></param>
         /// <param name="addBos">Whether to add a bos to the text.</param>
         /// <returns></returns>
-        public IEnumerable<llama_token> Tokenize(string text, bool addBos = true)
+        public llama_token[] Tokenize(string text, bool addBos = true)
         {
-            // TODO: reconsider whether to convert to array here.
-            return Utils.Tokenize(_ctx, text, addBos, _encoding);
+            return _ctx.Tokenize(text, addBos, _encoding);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/LLama/Native/NativeApi.cs b/LLama/Native/NativeApi.cs
index 4e0ac2a2..5857b590 100644
--- a/LLama/Native/NativeApi.cs
+++ b/LLama/Native/NativeApi.cs
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ namespace LLama.Native
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="ctx"></param>
         /// <param name="text"></param>
+        /// <param name="encoding"></param>
         /// <param name="tokens"></param>
         /// <param name="n_max_tokens"></param>
         /// <param name="add_bos"></param>
diff --git a/LLama/Native/SafeLLamaContextHandle.cs b/LLama/Native/SafeLLamaContextHandle.cs
index ab102228..9e81de69 100644
--- a/LLama/Native/SafeLLamaContextHandle.cs
+++ b/LLama/Native/SafeLLamaContextHandle.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using System;
+using System.Buffers;
+using System.Text;
 using LLama.Exceptions;
 
 namespace LLama.Native
@@ -57,5 +59,43 @@ namespace LLama.Native
 
             return new(ctx_ptr, model);
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Convert the given text into tokens
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="text">The text to tokenize</param>
+        /// <param name="add_bos">Whether the "BOS" token should be added</param>
+        /// <param name="encoding">Encoding to use for the text</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        /// <exception cref="RuntimeError"></exception>
+        public int[] Tokenize(string text, bool add_bos, Encoding encoding)
+        {
+            // Calculate number of bytes in string, this is a pessimistic estimate of token count. It can't
+            // possibly be more than this.
+            var count = encoding.GetByteCount(text) + (add_bos ? 1 : 0);
+
+            // "Rent" an array to write results into (avoiding an allocation of a large array)
+            var temporaryArray = ArrayPool<int>.Shared.Rent(count);
+            try
+            {
+                // Do the actual conversion
+                var n = NativeApi.llama_tokenize(this, text, encoding, temporaryArray, count, add_bos);
+                if (n < 0)
+                {
+                    throw new RuntimeError("Error happened during tokenization. It's possibly caused by wrong encoding. Please try to " +
+                                           "specify the encoding.");
+                }
+
+                // Copy the results from the rented into an array which is exactly the right size
+                var result = new int[n];
+                Array.ConstrainedCopy(temporaryArray, 0, result, 0, n);
+
+                return result;
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                ArrayPool<int>.Shared.Return(temporaryArray);
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/LLama/Utils.cs b/LLama/Utils.cs
index 391a5cc1..7a1f5f42 100644
--- a/LLama/Utils.cs
+++ b/LLama/Utils.cs
@@ -27,17 +27,10 @@ namespace LLama
             }
         }
 
+        [Obsolete("Use SafeLLamaContextHandle Tokenize method instead")]
         public static IEnumerable<llama_token> Tokenize(SafeLLamaContextHandle ctx, string text, bool add_bos, Encoding encoding)
         {
-            var cnt = encoding.GetByteCount(text);
-            llama_token[] res = new llama_token[cnt + (add_bos ? 1 : 0)];
-            int n = NativeApi.llama_tokenize(ctx, text, encoding, res, res.Length, add_bos);
-            if (n < 0)
-            {
-                throw new RuntimeError("Error happened during tokenization. It's possibly caused by wrong encoding. Please try to " +
-                    "specify the encoding.");
-            }
-            return res.Take(n);
+            return ctx.Tokenize(text, add_bos, encoding);
         }
 
         public static unsafe Span<float> GetLogits(SafeLLamaContextHandle ctx, int length)