Stop Timing the First Token: A Streaming FAQ for Free Model Servers
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Your chat UI feels instant. Your batch job crawls. Same model. Same server. Streaming is usually the difference. Streaming changes what your client sees first. It does not change how fast the model thinks. Most teams time one number: the first token. That number explains maybe a third of the total…
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- 2026-08-29 12:13 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Timing the First Token: A Streaming FAQ for Free Model Servers