Kimi (Direct) Kimi AI Gateway Benchmarks

Kimi AI Gateway Benchmarks

Last benchmarked August 21, 2026

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

Baseline

95% 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

1258ms

Median

Warm TTFT

2240ms

Median

Tokens/sec

Median

DNS

25.0ms

Median

TCP

1.0ms

Median

TLS

6.2ms

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.

DNS25.0ms

TCP1.0ms

TLS6.2ms

To First Byte1147.1ms

First Byte → Token0.1ms

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