OpenRouter Kimi AI Gateway Benchmarks
Kimi AI Gateway Benchmarks
Last benchmarked August 21, 2026
Request Latency
Cold E2E
2698ms
Median
Warm TTFT
2456ms
Median
Tokens/sec
32
Median
DNS
19.4ms
Median
TCP
1.0ms
Median
TLS
2.8ms
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.
DNS19.4ms
TCP1.0ms
TLS2.8ms
To First Byte2640.9ms
First Byte → Token7.1ms
Performance Over Time
Iteration Distribution
Cold E2E
Warm TTFT
Tokens/sec
DNS
TCP
TLS
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