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Latency Budgets for AI Features: Allocating Milliseconds Across the Request Path
A latency budget allocates a target end-to-end time across each stage of an AI request: queueing, retrieval, time to first token, generation, tool calls and rendering. This guide gives the formula, a method for building budgets at p95, the levers for each stage, and how to decide what to cut first.
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