anthropic vs google — AI API latency comparison

As of July 24, 2026, google has lower edge latency (time-to-first-byte) than anthropic in 4 of 4 measured region(s). From Asia (Tokyo), google responds in 62 ms p50 vs 251 ms.

Edge latency by region

Regionanthropic p50 TTFBgoogle p50 TTFBFaster
Asia (Tokyo)251 ms62 msgoogle
Europe (Germany)200 ms99 msgoogle
South America (São Paulo)210 ms152 msgoogle
US (Central)108 ms39 msgoogle

Full details: anthropic by region · google by region.