Artificial Analysis Output Speed what it measures, how it is scored and who leads it
Speed, price and usage · Artificial Analysis · Tokens per second
Scores from Artificial Analysis Output Speed, published Sep 26, 2026
About this benchmark
- Task
- Measure how fast a model streams tokens on its first-party API.
- Dataset
- Repeated live API calls over the past two weeks.
- Method
- Median output tokens per second after the first token.
- Metric
- Tokens per second
- Organization
- Artificial Analysis
- Official leaderboard
- artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models
Sources: each benchmark's paper (arXiv) and its official site or leaderboard. Scores are the boards captured here every day, exactly as published.