# Standard analyzer vs standard tokenizer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standard-analyzer-vs-standard-tokenizer/145798>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standard-analyzer-vs-standard-tokenizer/145798 "2018-08-23T20:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![workland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@workland](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/workland)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standard-analyzer-vs-standard-tokenizer/145798/1 "2018-08-23T20:10:12Z")

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can you please explain the difference between analyzer vs tokenizer?  
What is the best way to use it?  
Where, when they are supposed to used?

thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standard-analyzer-vs-standard-tokenizer/145798/2 "2018-09-20T20:10:15Z")

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