TTFT and TPOT: The Latency Number You Report Hides the One Users Feel
Push a simulated serving queue from 0.2 to 3.0 requests a second and mean end-to-end latency gets 17x worse. Over the same range, the 99th percentile time to first token gets 762x worse — 206 ms to 157 s . Both numbers describe the same 300 requests. Only one of them describes the empty box a user…
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- 2026-11-09 16:57 · DEV Community — AI
TTFT and TPOT: The Latency Number You Report Hides the One Users Feel