Anthropic AI Gateway Benchmark
Request Latency
BaselineNo gateway involved — a direct call to Anthropic's API, used as the no-gateway control every other provider is compared against.
Cold E2E
561ms
Median
Warm TTFT
504ms
Median
Tokens/sec
53
Median
DNS
1.2ms
Median
TCP
1.0ms
Median
TLS
4.1ms
Median
Cold Connection Breakdown
Where a fresh request's time goes: DNS lookup, TCP connect, TLS handshake, then time to first response byte, then first byte to first streamed token.
DNS1.2ms
TCP1.0ms
TLS4.1ms
To First Byte543.9ms
First Byte → Token0.1ms
Performance Over Time
Iteration Distribution
Cold E2E
Warm TTFT
Tokens/sec
DNS
TCP
TLS
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