diff --git a/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_batch.py b/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_batch.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..15ef0ab6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_batch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+import concurrent.futures
+import os
+import random
+import time
+from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
+from statistics import mean
+
+import requests
+from tqdm import tqdm
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+from sglang.lang.backend.runtime_endpoint import RuntimeEndpoint
+
+###############################################################################
+# CONFIG
+###############################################################################
+ENDPOINT_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:30000"
+TOKENIZER_DIR = "/models/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B"
+
+# Benchmark configurations
+NUM_REQUESTS = 10  # Total number of requests (each with BATCH_SIZE prompts)
+NUM_TOKENS = 32000  # Tokens per prompt
+BATCH_SIZE = 8  # Number of prompts per request
+GEN_TOKENS = 0  # Tokens to generate per prompt
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# REQUEST GENERATION (in parallel)
+###############################################################################
+def generate_random_prompt(index, tokenizer_dir, num_tokens):
+    """Generate a single random prompt with specified token count."""
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_dir)
+    vocab_size = tokenizer.vocab_size
+
+    def generate_random_text(num_toks):
+        random_token_ids = [random.randint(0, vocab_size - 1) for _ in range(num_toks)]
+        return tokenizer.decode(random_token_ids, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True)
+
+    random_text = generate_random_text(num_tokens)
+    return f"Prompt {index}: {random_text}"
+
+
+def prepare_all_prompts(num_requests, batch_size, num_tokens, tokenizer_dir):
+    """Generate prompts for all requests in parallel."""
+    total_prompts = num_requests * batch_size
+    all_prompts = [None] * total_prompts
+    max_workers = min(os.cpu_count() or 1, total_prompts)
+
+    with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_workers) as executor:
+        futures = [
+            executor.submit(generate_random_prompt, i, tokenizer_dir, num_tokens)
+            for i in range(total_prompts)
+        ]
+        for future in tqdm(
+            concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures),
+            total=total_prompts,
+            desc="Generating prompts",
+        ):
+            index = futures.index(future)
+            all_prompts[index] = future.result()
+
+    batched_prompts = [
+        all_prompts[i * batch_size : (i + 1) * batch_size] for i in range(num_requests)
+    ]
+
+    print(
+        f"Generated {total_prompts} prompts with {num_tokens} tokens each, grouped into {num_requests} requests of {batch_size} prompts.\n"
+    )
+    return batched_prompts
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# HTTP CALLS
+###############################################################################
+def send_batch_request(endpoint, prompts, gen_tokens, request_id):
+    """Send a batch of prompts to the /generate endpoint synchronously."""
+    sampling_params = {
+        "max_new_tokens": gen_tokens,
+        "temperature": 0.7,
+        "stop": "\n",
+    }
+    data = {"text": prompts, "sampling_params": sampling_params}
+
+    start_time = time.time()
+    try:
+        response = requests.post(
+            endpoint.base_url + "/generate", json=data, timeout=3600
+        )
+        if response.status_code != 200:
+            error = response.json()
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Request {request_id} failed: {error}")
+        result = response.json()
+        elapsed_time = (time.time() - start_time) * 1000  # Convert to ms
+        avg_per_prompt = elapsed_time / len(prompts) if prompts else 0
+        return request_id, elapsed_time, avg_per_prompt, True, len(prompts)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"[Request] Error for request {request_id}: {e}")
+        return request_id, 0, 0, False, len(prompts)
+
+
+def run_benchmark(endpoint, batched_prompts, batch_size, gen_tokens):
+    """Run the benchmark sequentially."""
+    results = []
+    num_requests = len(batched_prompts)
+
+    # Record start time for total latency
+    benchmark_start_time = time.time()
+
+    for i, batch_prompts in enumerate(batched_prompts):
+        request_id = i + 1
+        assert (
+            len(batch_prompts) == batch_size
+        ), f"Request {request_id} should have {batch_size} prompts, got {len(batch_prompts)}"
+
+        print(
+            f"[Request] Sending request {request_id}/{num_requests} with {len(batch_prompts)} prompts at {int(time.time()*1000)}"
+        )
+        result = send_batch_request(endpoint, batch_prompts, gen_tokens, request_id)
+        results.append(result)
+
+    # Calculate total latency
+    total_latency = (time.time() - benchmark_start_time) * 1000  # Convert to ms
+
+    return results, total_latency
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# RESULTS
+###############################################################################
+def process_results(results, total_latency, num_requests):
+    """Process and display benchmark results."""
+    total_time = 0
+    successful_requests = 0
+    failed_requests = 0
+    request_latencies = []
+    per_prompt_latencies = []
+    total_prompts = 0
+
+    for request_id, elapsed_time, avg_per_prompt, success, batch_size in results:
+        if success:
+            successful_requests += 1
+            total_prompts += batch_size
+            request_latencies.append(elapsed_time)
+            per_prompt_latencies.append(avg_per_prompt)
+            total_time += elapsed_time / 1000  # Convert to seconds
+        else:
+            failed_requests += 1
+
+    avg_request_latency = mean(request_latencies) if request_latencies else 0
+    avg_per_prompt_latency = mean(per_prompt_latencies) if per_prompt_latencies else 0
+    throughput = total_prompts / total_time if total_time > 0 else 0
+
+    print("\nBenchmark Summary:")
+    print(f"  Total requests sent:         {len(results)}")
+    print(f"  Total prompts sent:          {total_prompts}")
+    print(f"  Successful requests:         {successful_requests}")
+    print(f"  Failed requests:             {failed_requests}")
+    print(f"  Total latency (all requests): {total_latency:.2f} ms")
+    print(f"  Avg per request latency:     {avg_request_latency:.2f} ms")
+    print(f"  Avg per prompt latency:      {avg_per_prompt_latency:.2f} ms")
+    print(f"  Throughput:                  {throughput:.2f} prompts/second\n")
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# MAIN
+###############################################################################
+def main():
+    # Initialize endpoint
+    endpoint = RuntimeEndpoint(ENDPOINT_URL)
+
+    # Generate prompts
+    batched_prompts = prepare_all_prompts(
+        NUM_REQUESTS, BATCH_SIZE, NUM_TOKENS, TOKENIZER_DIR
+    )
+
+    # Flush cache before benchmark
+    # endpoint.flush_cache()
+
+    # Run benchmark
+    print(
+        f"Starting benchmark: NUM_TOKENS={NUM_TOKENS}, BATCH_SIZE={BATCH_SIZE}, NUM_REQUESTS={NUM_REQUESTS}\n"
+    )
+    results, total_latency = run_benchmark(
+        endpoint, batched_prompts, BATCH_SIZE, GEN_TOKENS
+    )
+
+    # Process and display results
+    process_results(results, total_latency, NUM_REQUESTS)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    random.seed(0)
+    main()
diff --git a/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_tokenizer.py b/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_tokenizer.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c00bfb84b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/benchmark_batch/benchmark_tokenizer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+import random
+import time
+from statistics import mean
+
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+# CONFIG
+TOKENIZER_DIR = (
+    "/shared/public/sharing/fait360brew/training/models/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B"
+)
+NUM_TOKENS = 20000  # Each prompt should contain this many tokens
+BATCH_SIZES = [1, 2, 4, 8]  # Test different batch sizes
+NUM_RUNS = 5  # Number of runs for each batch size to get reliable measurements
+
+
+def generate_random_prompts(num_prompts, num_tokens, tokenizer):
+    """Generate random prompts with specified token count."""
+    vocab_size = tokenizer.vocab_size
+    all_prompts = []
+
+    print(f"Generating {num_prompts} random prompts with {num_tokens} tokens each...")
+    for i in range(num_prompts):
+        # Generate random token IDs - this directly gives us the exact token count
+        random_token_ids = [
+            random.randint(0, vocab_size - 1) for _ in range(num_tokens)
+        ]
+        random_text = tokenizer.decode(
+            random_token_ids, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True
+        )
+
+        prompt = f"Prompt {i}: {random_text}"
+        tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt)
+        print(f"  Prompt {i}: {len(tokens)} tokens")
+        all_prompts.append(prompt)
+
+    return all_prompts
+
+
+def benchmark_sequential_vs_batch(prompts, batch_size, tokenizer):
+    """Compare sequential vs batch tokenization for a given batch size."""
+
+    # Sequential tokenization using encode()
+    sequential_times = []
+    for run in range(NUM_RUNS):
+        batch_prompts = prompts[:batch_size]  # Use same prompts for fair comparison
+
+        start_time = time.time()
+        for prompt in batch_prompts:
+            tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt)
+        sequential_time = (time.time() - start_time) * 1000
+        sequential_times.append(sequential_time)
+
+    # Batch tokenization using tokenizer()
+    batch_times = []
+    for run in range(NUM_RUNS):
+        batch_prompts = prompts[:batch_size]  # Use same prompts for fair comparison
+
+        start_time = time.time()
+        tokens = tokenizer(batch_prompts)
+        batch_time = (time.time() - start_time) * 1000
+        batch_times.append(batch_time)
+
+    return {
+        "batch_size": batch_size,
+        "avg_sequential_ms": mean(sequential_times),
+        "avg_batch_ms": mean(batch_times),
+        "speedup_factor": (
+            mean(sequential_times) / mean(batch_times) if mean(batch_times) > 0 else 0
+        ),
+        "sequential_runs": sequential_times,
+        "batch_runs": batch_times,
+    }
+
+
+def main():
+    print("Tokenizer Benchmark: Sequential vs Batch Processing")
+    print("-" * 60)
+    print(f"Tokenizer: {TOKENIZER_DIR}")
+    print(f"Tokens per prompt: {NUM_TOKENS}")
+    print(f"Number of runs per batch size: {NUM_RUNS}")
+    print("-" * 60)
+
+    # Load tokenizer once for all operations
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TOKENIZER_DIR)
+
+    # The largest batch size determines how many prompts we need
+    max_batch_size = max(BATCH_SIZES)
+    all_prompts = generate_random_prompts(max_batch_size, NUM_TOKENS, tokenizer)
+
+    results = []
+    print("\nRunning benchmark...")
+
+    for batch_size in BATCH_SIZES:
+        print(f"\nBenchmarking batch size: {batch_size}")
+        result = benchmark_sequential_vs_batch(all_prompts, batch_size, tokenizer)
+        results.append(result)
+
+        print(f"  Sequential tokenization (encode):")
+        for i, run_time in enumerate(result["sequential_runs"]):
+            print(f"    Run {i+1}: {run_time:.2f} ms")
+        print(f"    Average: {result['avg_sequential_ms']:.2f} ms")
+
+        print(f"  Batch tokenization (tokenizer):")
+        for i, run_time in enumerate(result["batch_runs"]):
+            print(f"    Run {i+1}: {run_time:.2f} ms")
+        print(f"    Average: {result['avg_batch_ms']:.2f} ms")
+
+        print(f"  Speedup factor: {result['speedup_factor']:.2f}x")
+
+    print("\n" + "=" * 60)
+    print("SUMMARY OF RESULTS")
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print(
+        f"{'Batch Size':<10} {'Sequential (ms)':<18} {'Batch (ms)':<18} {'Speedup':<10}"
+    )
+    print("-" * 60)
+
+    for result in results:
+        print(
+            f"{result['batch_size']:<10} {result['avg_sequential_ms']:.2f} ms{' ' * 8} {result['avg_batch_ms']:.2f} ms{' ' * 8} {result['speedup_factor']:.2f}x"
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    random.seed(0)
+    main()
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
index a391dd719..92a6bbafc 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
@@ -415,6 +415,51 @@ class TokenizerManager:
         )
         if image_inputs and "input_ids" in image_inputs:
             input_ids = image_inputs["input_ids"]
+
+        self._validate_token_len(obj, input_ids)
+        return self._create_tokenized_object(
+            obj, input_text, input_ids, input_embeds, image_inputs
+        )
+
+    def _validate_token_len(
+        self, obj: Union[GenerateReqInput, EmbeddingReqInput], input_ids: List[int]
+    ) -> None:
+        """Validates that the input token count and the requested token count doesn't exceed the model's context length."""
+
+        input_token_num = len(input_ids) if input_ids is not None else 0
+        # Check if input alone exceeds context length
+        if input_token_num >= self.context_len:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"The input ({input_token_num} tokens) is longer than the "
+                f"model's context length ({self.context_len} tokens)."
+            )
+
+        # Check total tokens (input + max_new_tokens)
+        max_new_tokens = obj.sampling_params.get("max_new_tokens")
+        if (
+            max_new_tokens is not None
+            and (max_new_tokens + input_token_num) >= self.context_len
+        ):
+            total_tokens = max_new_tokens + input_token_num
+            error_msg = (
+                f"Requested token count exceeds the model's maximum context length "
+                f"of {self.context_len} tokens. You requested a total of {total_tokens} "
+                f"tokens: {input_token_num} tokens from the input messages and "
+                f"{max_new_tokens} tokens for the completion. Please reduce the number "
+                f"of tokens in the input messages or the completion to fit within the limit."
+            )
+            raise ValueError(error_msg)
+
+    def _create_tokenized_object(
+        self,
+        obj: Union[GenerateReqInput, EmbeddingReqInput],
+        input_text: str,
+        input_ids: List[int],
+        input_embeds: Optional[Union[List[float], None]] = None,
+        image_inputs: Optional[Dict] = None,
+    ) -> Union[TokenizedGenerateReqInput, TokenizedEmbeddingReqInput]:
+        """Create a tokenized request object from common parameters."""
+
         if self.is_generation:
             return_logprob = obj.return_logprob
             logprob_start_len = obj.logprob_start_len
@@ -424,29 +469,6 @@ class TokenizerManager:
                 SessionParams(**obj.session_params) if obj.session_params else None
             )
 
-        input_token_num = len(input_ids) if input_ids is not None else 0
-        if input_token_num >= self.context_len:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"The input ({input_token_num} tokens) is longer than the "
-                f"model's context length ({self.context_len} tokens)."
-            )
-
-        if (
-            obj.sampling_params.get("max_new_tokens") is not None
-            and obj.sampling_params.get("max_new_tokens") + input_token_num
-            >= self.context_len
-        ):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"Requested token count exceeds the model's maximum context length "
-                f"of {self.context_len} tokens. You requested a total of "
-                f"{obj.sampling_params.get('max_new_tokens') + input_token_num} "
-                f"tokens: {input_token_num} tokens from the input messages and "
-                f"{obj.sampling_params.get('max_new_tokens')} tokens for the "
-                f"completion. Please reduce the number of tokens in the input "
-                f"messages or the completion to fit within the limit."
-            )
-
-        # Parse sampling parameters
         sampling_params = SamplingParams(**obj.sampling_params)
         sampling_params.normalize(self.tokenizer)
         sampling_params.verify()
@@ -483,6 +505,50 @@ class TokenizerManager:
 
         return tokenized_obj
 
+    async def _batch_tokenize_and_process(
+        self, batch_size: int, obj: Union[GenerateReqInput, EmbeddingReqInput]
+    ) -> List[Union[TokenizedGenerateReqInput, TokenizedEmbeddingReqInput]]:
+        """Handle batch tokenization for text inputs only."""
+        logger.debug(f"Starting batch tokenization for {batch_size} text requests")
+
+        # Collect requests and texts
+        requests = [obj[i] for i in range(batch_size)]
+        texts = [req.text for req in requests]
+
+        # Batch tokenize all texts
+        encoded = self.tokenizer(texts)
+        input_ids_list = encoded["input_ids"]
+
+        # Process all requests
+        tokenized_objs = []
+        for i, req in enumerate(requests):
+            self._validate_token_len(obj[i], input_ids_list[i])
+            tokenized_objs.append(
+                self._create_tokenized_object(
+                    req, req.text, input_ids_list[i], None, None
+                )
+            )
+        logger.debug(f"Completed batch processing for {batch_size} requests")
+        return tokenized_objs
+
+    def _validate_batch_tokenization_constraints(
+        self, batch_size: int, obj: Union[GenerateReqInput, EmbeddingReqInput]
+    ) -> None:
+        """Validate constraints for batch tokenization processing."""
+        for i in range(batch_size):
+            if self.is_generation and obj[i].image_data:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "For image input processing do not set `enable_tokenizer_batch_encode`."
+                )
+            if obj[i].input_ids is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Batch tokenization is not needed for pre-tokenized input_ids. Do not set `enable_tokenizer_batch_encode`."
+                )
+            if obj[i].input_embeds is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Batch tokenization is not needed for input_embeds. Do not set `enable_tokenizer_batch_encode`."
+                )
+
     def _send_one_request(
         self,
         obj: Union[GenerateReqInput, EmbeddingReqInput],
@@ -560,14 +626,27 @@ class TokenizerManager:
 
         generators = []
         rids = []
+
         if getattr(obj, "parallel_sample_num", 1) == 1:
-            # Send all requests
-            for i in range(batch_size):
-                tmp_obj = obj[i]
-                tokenized_obj = await self._tokenize_one_request(tmp_obj)
-                self._send_one_request(tmp_obj, tokenized_obj, created_time)
-                generators.append(self._wait_one_response(tmp_obj, request))
-                rids.append(tmp_obj.rid)
+            if self.server_args.enable_tokenizer_batch_encode:
+                # Validate batch tokenization constraints
+                self._validate_batch_tokenization_constraints(batch_size, obj)
+
+                tokenized_objs = await self._batch_tokenize_and_process(batch_size, obj)
+
+                for i, tokenized_obj in enumerate(tokenized_objs):
+                    tmp_obj = obj[i]
+                    self._send_one_request(tmp_obj, tokenized_obj, created_time)
+                    generators.append(self._wait_one_response(tmp_obj, request))
+                    rids.append(tmp_obj.rid)
+            else:
+                # Sequential tokenization and processing
+                for i in range(batch_size):
+                    tmp_obj = obj[i]
+                    tokenized_obj = await self._tokenize_one_request(tmp_obj)
+                    self._send_one_request(tmp_obj, tokenized_obj, created_time)
+                    generators.append(self._wait_one_response(tmp_obj, request))
+                    rids.append(tmp_obj.rid)
         else:
             # FIXME: When using batch and parallel_sample_num together, the perf is not optimal.
             if batch_size > 128:
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py b/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
index e1768b52e..ddbbdf35d 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ class ServerArgs:
     tokenizer_path: Optional[str] = None
     tokenizer_mode: str = "auto"
     skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False
+    enable_tokenizer_batch_encode: bool = False
     load_format: str = "auto"
     trust_remote_code: bool = False
     dtype: str = "auto"
@@ -432,6 +433,11 @@ class ServerArgs:
             action="store_true",
             help="If set, skip init tokenizer and pass input_ids in generate request",
         )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "--enable-tokenizer-batch-encode",
+            action="store_true",
+            help="Enable batch tokenization for improved performance when processing multiple text inputs. Do not use with image inputs, pre-tokenized input_ids, or input_embeds.",
+        )
         parser.add_argument(
             "--load-format",
             type=str,