How fast is 10 tokens per second really?
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20th May 2026 - Link Blog
How fast is 10 tokens per second really? (via) Neat little HTML app by Mike Veerman (source code here) which simulates LLM token output speeds from 5/second to 800/second.
Useful if you see a model advertised as "30 tokens/second" and want to get a feel for what that actually looks like.
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