diff --git a/src/characters.rs b/src/characters.rs
index 15efdb61..2541a3f1 100644
--- a/src/characters.rs
+++ b/src/characters.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use crate::ChunkSizer;
+use crate::{ChunkSizer, EncodedOffsets};
 
 /// Used for splitting a piece of text into chunks based on the number of
 /// characters in each chunk.
@@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ use crate::ChunkSizer;
 pub struct Characters;
 
 impl ChunkSizer for Characters {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+        EncodedOffsets::new(
+            chunk
+                .char_indices()
+                .map(|(i, c)| i..(i + c.len_utf8()))
+                .collect(),
+        )
+    }
+
     /// Determine the size of a given chunk to use for validation.
     ///
     /// ```
@@ -22,3 +33,14 @@ impl ChunkSizer for Characters {
         chunk.chars().count()
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn returns_offsets() {
+        let offsets = Characters.encoded_offsets("eé");
+        assert_eq!(offsets, EncodedOffsets::new(vec![0..1, 1..3]));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/huggingface.rs b/src/huggingface.rs
index 6e06f906..1663e601 100644
--- a/src/huggingface.rs
+++ b/src/huggingface.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
-use crate::ChunkSizer;
+use crate::{ChunkSizer, EncodedOffsets};
 
 impl ChunkSizer for Tokenizer {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+        encoded_offsets(self, chunk)
+    }
+
     /// Returns the number of tokens in a given text after tokenization.
     ///
     /// # Panics
@@ -15,6 +21,12 @@ impl ChunkSizer for Tokenizer {
 }
 
 impl ChunkSizer for &Tokenizer {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+        encoded_offsets(self, chunk)
+    }
+
     /// Returns the number of tokens in a given text after tokenization.
     ///
     /// # Panics
@@ -26,9 +38,57 @@ impl ChunkSizer for &Tokenizer {
     }
 }
 
+fn encoded_offsets(tokenizer: &Tokenizer, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+    let encoding = tokenizer
+        .encode(chunk, false)
+        .expect("Unable to tokenize the following string {chunk}");
+    let mut offsets = encoding
+        .get_offsets()
+        .iter()
+        .map(|(start, end)| {
+            let end = *end + 1;
+            *start..end
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    // Sometimes the offsets are off by one because of whitespace prefixing
+    let prefixed = offsets
+        .last()
+        .map(|r| r.end != chunk.len())
+        .unwrap_or_default();
+
+    if prefixed {
+        for range in &mut offsets {
+            if range.start != 0 {
+                range.start -= 1;
+            }
+            range.end -= 1;
+        }
+    }
+    EncodedOffsets::new(offsets)
+}
+
 fn chunk_size(tokenizer: &Tokenizer, chunk: &str) -> usize {
     tokenizer
         .encode(chunk, false)
         .map(|enc| enc.len())
-        .expect("Unable to tokenize the following string {str}")
+        .expect("Unable to tokenize the following string {chunk}")
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn returns_offsets() {
+        let tokenizer = &Tokenizer::from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", None).unwrap();
+        let offsets = tokenizer.encoded_offsets(" An apple a");
+        assert_eq!(offsets, EncodedOffsets::new(vec![0..3, 3..9, 9..11]));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn returns_offsets_handles_prefix() {
+        let tokenizer = &Tokenizer::from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", None).unwrap();
+        let offsets = tokenizer.encoded_offsets("An apple a");
+        assert_eq!(offsets, EncodedOffsets::new(vec![0..2, 2..8, 8..10]));
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index aa8d55cc..3c142245 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -152,8 +152,29 @@ mod tiktoken;
 
 pub use characters::Characters;
 
+/// Contains start and end byte offsets for an encoded unit of text in a chunk, calculated by
+/// a [`ChunkSizer`].
+///
+/// Each offset is an exclusive range.
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct EncodedOffsets {
+    offsets: Vec<Range<usize>>,
+}
+
+impl EncodedOffsets {
+    /// Generate new encoded offsets with the offsets for the given encoding implementation.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn new(offsets: Vec<Range<usize>>) -> Self {
+        Self { offsets }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Determines the size of a given chunk.
 pub trait ChunkSizer {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets;
+
     /// Determine the size of a given chunk to use for validation
     fn chunk_size(&self, chunk: &str) -> usize;
 }
@@ -835,6 +856,17 @@ mod tests {
         fn chunk_size(&self, chunk: &str) -> usize {
             chunk.len()
         }
+
+        fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+            EncodedOffsets::new(
+                chunk
+                    .as_bytes()
+                    .iter()
+                    .enumerate()
+                    .map(|(i, _)| (i..i))
+                    .collect(),
+            )
+        }
     }
 
     #[test]
diff --git a/src/tiktoken.rs b/src/tiktoken.rs
index cf90170b..32de733e 100644
--- a/src/tiktoken.rs
+++ b/src/tiktoken.rs
@@ -1,31 +1,59 @@
 use tiktoken_rs::CoreBPE;
 
-use crate::ChunkSizer;
+use crate::{ChunkSizer, EncodedOffsets};
 
 impl ChunkSizer for CoreBPE {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+        encoded_offsets(self, chunk)
+    }
+
     /// Returns the number of tokens in a given text after tokenization.
-    ///
-    /// # Panics
-    ///
-    /// Will panic if you don't have a byte-level tokenizer and the splitter
-    /// encounters text it can't tokenize.
     fn chunk_size(&self, text: &str) -> usize {
         chunk_size(self, text)
     }
 }
 
 impl ChunkSizer for &CoreBPE {
+    /// Return offsets for each unit of text used to calculate chunk size.
+    /// Should return an exclusive byte range for each element counted.
+    fn encoded_offsets(&self, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+        encoded_offsets(self, chunk)
+    }
+
     /// Returns the number of tokens in a given text after tokenization.
-    ///
-    /// # Panics
-    ///
-    /// Will panic if you don't have a byte-level tokenizer and the splitter
-    /// encounters text it can't tokenize.
     fn chunk_size(&self, text: &str) -> usize {
         chunk_size(self, text)
     }
 }
 
+fn encoded_offsets(bpe: &CoreBPE, chunk: &str) -> EncodedOffsets {
+    let tokens = bpe.encode_ordinary(chunk);
+    let decoded = bpe
+        ._decode_native_and_split(tokens)
+        .scan(0usize, |offset, bytes| {
+            let end = *offset + bytes.len();
+            let item = *offset..end;
+            *offset = end;
+            Some(item)
+        });
+    EncodedOffsets::new(decoded.collect())
+}
+
 fn chunk_size(bpe: &CoreBPE, text: &str) -> usize {
     bpe.encode_ordinary(text).len()
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    use tiktoken_rs::cl100k_base;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn returns_offsets() {
+        let offsets = cl100k_base().unwrap().encoded_offsets("An apple a");
+        assert_eq!(offsets, EncodedOffsets::new(vec![0..2, 2..8, 8..10]));
+    }
+}