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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.

Posted 20th May 2026 at 5:57 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 20th May 2026.

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