I am trying to create a product using the OpenAI APIs. Since I will be using Langchain, likely latency will be at least a relatively important part of the overall response time. Now, I was wondering if I would host the backend on Azure as a docker container, would that minimize the API latency versu…

Nothing concrete to back it up, but if you are calling the LLMs you are looking at seconds of latency already. So any benefits you get from being closer to the APIs will be negligible.

Yeah the actual API call itself (the time it takes GPT to think up the answer) is much slower than any network time from your server to the API. It’s barely worth thinking about.

Hi, what about Azure OpenAI response time x original OpenAI response time… is there any difference?

Anecdotally people are saying Azure is faster [image] GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 API response time measurements - FYI API Hi all, Since API slowness is a consistent issue, I made some experiments to test the response times of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, comparing both OpenAI and Azure. A…

thanks for the reply, very kind of you.

recently moved a client project from openai api endpoint to azure open ai api endpoint (private instance) saw a decrease in latency of 80%, so yes, for production you should consider a private instance of Azure Open AI Service

im getting radically faster times on azure using 3.5. however, the responses are also radically worse, especially with function calling. anyone else seeing wide discrepancies in the quality of answer between azure and openai? (which is rendering the latency issue moot for me b/c the azure responses…

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Anecdotally people are saying Azure is faster

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