diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 1353e6eb9..bbd6b0e78 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -86,5 +86,5 @@ Simple checklist on how to make releases for `tokenizers`.
 If you want to make modifications to the CI/CD of the release GH actions, you need
 to : 
 - **Comment the part that uploads the artifacts** to `crates.io`, `PyPi` or `npm`.
-- Change the trigger mecanism so it can trigger every time you push to your branch.
+- Change the trigger mechanism so it can trigger every time you push to your branch.
 - Keep pushing your changes until the artifacts are properly created.
diff --git a/tokenizers/Cargo.toml b/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
index 5d1aae0ce..5f433ac6a 100644
--- a/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,12 +20,6 @@ name = "tokenizers"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 bench = false
 
-[[bin]]
-name = "cli"
-path = "src/cli.rs"
-bench = false
-required-features = ["cli"]
-
 [[bench]]
 name = "bpe_benchmark"
 harness = false
@@ -52,14 +46,13 @@ rayon = "1.8"
 rayon-cond = "0.3"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = [ "derive" ] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
-clap = { version = "4.4", features=["derive"], optional = true }
 unicode-normalization-alignments = "0.1"
 unicode_categories = "0.1"
 unicode-segmentation = "1.10"
 indicatif = {version = "0.17", optional = true}
 itertools = "0.12"
 log = "0.4"
-derive_builder = "0.12"
+derive_builder = "0.13"
 spm_precompiled = "0.1"
 hf-hub = { version = "0.3.2", optional = true }
 aho-corasick = "1.1"
@@ -72,11 +65,10 @@ esaxx-rs = { version = "0.1.10", default-features = false, features=[]}
 monostate = "0.1.9"
 
 [features]
-default = ["progressbar", "cli", "onig", "esaxx_fast"]
+default = ["progressbar", "onig", "esaxx_fast"]
 esaxx_fast = ["esaxx-rs/cpp"]
 progressbar = ["indicatif"]
 http = ["hf-hub"]
-cli = ["clap"]
 unstable_wasm = ["fancy-regex", "getrandom/js"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/cli.rs b/tokenizers/src/cli.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 54b82357f..000000000
--- a/tokenizers/src/cli.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-//!
-//! This is the CLI binary for the Tokenizers project
-//!
-
-use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
-use std::io::{self, BufRead, Write};
-use tokenizers::models::bpe::BPE;
-use tokenizers::pre_tokenizers::byte_level::ByteLevel;
-use tokenizers::tokenizer::{AddedToken, Result};
-use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
-
-/// Generate custom Tokenizers or use existing ones
-#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
-#[command(author, version)]
-struct Args {
-    #[command(subcommand)]
-    command: Command,
-}
-
-#[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
-enum Command {
-    Shell {
-        /// Path to the vocab.json file
-        vocab: String,
-        /// Path to the merges.txt file
-        merges: String,
-    },
-}
-
-fn shell(vocab: &str, merges: &str) -> Result<()> {
-    let bpe = BPE::from_file(vocab, merges).build()?;
-    let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(bpe);
-    tokenizer
-        .with_pre_tokenizer(ByteLevel::default())
-        .with_decoder(ByteLevel::default());
-
-    tokenizer.add_tokens(&[AddedToken::from(String::from("ing"), false).single_word(false)]);
-    tokenizer
-        .add_special_tokens(&[AddedToken::from(String::from("[ENT]"), true).single_word(true)]);
-
-    let stdin = io::stdin();
-    let mut handle = stdin.lock();
-    let mut buffer = String::new();
-
-    loop {
-        buffer.clear();
-
-        print!("\nEnter some text to tokenize:\n>  ");
-        io::stdout().flush()?;
-        handle.read_line(&mut buffer)?;
-        let buffer = buffer.trim_end();
-
-        let timer = std::time::Instant::now();
-        let encoded = tokenizer.encode(buffer.to_owned(), false)?;
-        let elapsed = timer.elapsed();
-        println!("\nInput:\t\t{}", buffer);
-        println!("Tokens:\t\t{:?}", encoded.get_tokens());
-        println!("IDs:\t\t{:?}", encoded.get_ids());
-        println!("Offsets:\t{:?}", encoded.get_offsets());
-        println!(
-            "Decoded:\t{}",
-            tokenizer.decode(encoded.get_ids(), true).unwrap()
-        );
-        println!("Tokenized in {:?}", elapsed);
-    }
-}
-
-fn main() -> Result<()> {
-    let args = Args::parse();
-    match args.command {
-        Command::Shell { vocab, merges } => shell(&vocab, &merges),
-    }
-}