# openai vs typesafe — AI API latency and uptime comparison
Updated September 27, 2026. As of September 27, 2026, typesafe has lower edge latency (time-to-first-byte) than openai in 3 of 4 measured region(s). From Asia (Tokyo), typesafe responds in 148 ms p50 vs 209 ms.

| Region | openai p50 | typesafe p50 | Faster |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asia (Tokyo) | 209 ms | 148 ms | typesafe |
| Europe (Germany) | 232 ms | 234 ms | openai |
| South America (São Paulo) | 252 ms | 248 ms | typesafe |
| US (Central) | 139 ms | 111 ms | typesafe |


## Does openai or typesafe have better uptime?

Over the last 24 hours typesafe answered more probes successfully than openai: 100% against 99.9% across 4 region(s).

| Provider | Probes succeeding | Worst region | there | Samples |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| openai | 99.9% | Asia (Tokyo) | 99.7% | 1155 |
| typesafe | 100% | Asia (Tokyo) | 100% | 122 |


Observed availability over the last 24 hours, not a contractual SLA. Longer windows: https://llmlatency.dev/best-uptime

Time to first token (TTFT) for both, with the model named: https://llmlatency.dev/time-to-first-token
Source: https://llmlatency.dev/compare/openai-vs-typesafe