Token Speed Simulator

Visualize how different LLM speeds feel in real-time

5 (slow)500 (ultra fast)
501000
0
Tokens
0.0s
Elapsed
0
Actual tok/s
Progress0%
Est. total time: 4.0s

Generated Output

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Speed Comparison: Time to Generate 1000 Tokens

GPT-4 (slow)
50.0s
GPT-4 Turbo
20.0s
GPT-4o
10.0s
Claude 3 Opus
33.3s
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
12.5s
Gemini 1.5 Flash
6.7s
Llama 3 (local)
25.0s
Groq (Llama 70B)
3.3s

Understanding Token Speed

Why speed matters: Faster token generation = better user experience. At 20 tokens/second, a 500-token response takes 25 seconds. At 100 tokens/second, just 5 seconds.

What affects speed: Model size, hardware (GPU/TPU), quantization, batch size, and provider infrastructure all impact generation speed.

Groq's secret: They use custom LPUs (Language Processing Units) designed specifically for inference, achieving 300+ tokens/second on Llama 70B.