# AI API latency, week of 26 October 2026: what actually moved

Published 2026-11-02 · covers 26 October 2026

Week of 26 October 2026: 2 different providers were fastest across the 4 regions we measure from, and 13 provider-region pairs moved by more than a quarter against the week before. Who led each region last week? Region Fastest p50 TTFB Uptime Asia (Tokyo) fireworks 20 ms 100% Europe (Germany) fireworks 19 ms 100% South America (São Paulo) openrouter 61 ms 100% US (Central) fireworks 30 ms 100% What changed by more than 25%? Provider Region Week before This week Change fireworks Europe (Germany) 98 ms 19 ms -80% google Europe (Germany) 99 ms 36 ms -64% nebius Europe (Germany) 100 ms 37 ms -63% aleph-alpha Europe (Germany) 100 ms 65 ms -35% baseten Europe (Germany) 199 ms 130 ms -35% meta-llama Europe (Germany) 100 ms 67 ms -33% writer Europe (Germany) 297 ms 206 ms -31% cohere Europe (Germany) 200 ms 140 ms -30% groq Europe (Germany) 296 ms 212 ms -29% glm Europe (Germany) 199 ms 145 ms -27% xai Europe (Germany) 296 ms 216 ms -27% nscale Europe (Germany) 98 ms 72 ms -27%

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