The token indices are under the key input_ids: thon encoded_sequence = inputs["input_ids"] print(encoded_sequence) [101, 138, 18696, 155, 1942, 3190, 1144, 1572, 13745, 1104, 159, 9664, 2107, 102] Note that the tokenizer automatically adds "special tokens" (if the associated model relies on them) which are special IDs the model sometimes uses.