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How Model Latency Varies by Region and Vendor
Pick a vendor and region by measured p50/p95 from your users' geography, not the marketing map.
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- 1The premise
- 2latency
- 3regions
- 4p95
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Section 1
The premise
Regional availability and routing differ; measure from your actual user locations before committing.
What AI does well here
- Measure p50/p95 from real user POPs
- Account for streaming TTFB separately
- Pin region for compliance reasons
What AI cannot do
- Make distance-based latency disappear
- Predict provider routing changes
- Replace edge caching for static content
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