Anthropic (Direct) AI Gateway Benchmarks

AI Gateway Benchmarks

Last benchmarked July 24, 2026

No-gateway control — a direct call to Anthropic's API, used to measure how much latency each gateway adds.

Baseline

100% success

No gateway involved — a direct call to Anthropic's API, used as the no-gateway control every other provider is compared against.

Cold E2E

821ms

Median

Warm TTFT

521ms

Median

Tokens/sec

Median

DNS

0.8ms

Median

TCP

1.1ms

Median

TLS

2.9ms

Median

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.

DNS0.8ms

TCP1.1ms

TLS2.9ms

To First Byte810.3ms

First Byte → Token0.3ms

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