ngrok AI Gateway OpenAI AI Gateway Benchmarks
OpenAI AI Gateway Benchmarks
Last benchmarked August 21, 2026
Request Latency
Cold E2E
1364ms
Median
Warm TTFT
851ms
Median
Tokens/sec
41
Median
DNS
0.7ms
Median
TCP
19.3ms
Median
TLS
21.5ms
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.
DNS0.7ms
TCP19.3ms
TLS21.5ms
To First Byte1138.7ms
First Byte → Token124.5ms
Performance Over Time
Iteration Distribution
Cold E2E
Warm TTFT
Tokens/sec
DNS
TCP
TLS
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