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Time to First Token (TTFT)

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Time in seconds from API request to the first token received. Lower values indicate faster response starts. Median measured by Artificial Analysis.

Source: Artificial Analysis
RankModel
#1

OpenAI

GPT-5.4 Pro

116.89s
#2

Alibaba

Qwen3.6 Plus

106.67s
#3

MiniMax

MiniMax M2.7

53.78s
#4

Xiaomi

MiMo-V2-Pro

45.43s
#5

Google

Gemini 3.1 Pro

22.87s
#6

MiniMax

MiniMax M2.5

20.51s
#7

Google

Gemini 2.5 Pro

19.49s
#8

Arcee AI

Trinity Large Thinking

16.09s
#9

Google

Nano Banana 2

14.33s
#10

Google

Nano Banana Pro

10.83s
#11

Google

Gemini 3 Flash

9.94s
#12

Google

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

5.02s
#13

Meituan

Longcat Flash Chat

4.66s
#14

Google

Nano Banana

3.38s
#15

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.6

2.90s
#16

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash

1.97s
#17

NVIDIA

Nemotron 3 Super

1.88s
#18

Baidu

ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B

1.77s
#19

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6

1.75s
#20

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1.54s
#21

Alibaba

Qwen3.5 397B A17B

1.51s
#22

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5

1.42s
#23

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7

1.36s
#24

Z.ai

GLM-5

1.34s
#25

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.1

1.33s
#26

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

1.33s
#27

Z.ai

GLM-5.1

1.30s
#28

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.2

1.26s
#29

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.5

1.21s
#30

Google

Gemma 4 31B

1.21s
#31

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

1.08s
#32

OpenAI

GPT-5

1.03s
#33

OpenAI

GPT-5 Mini

0.95s
#34

Amazon

Nova 2 Lite

0.82s
#35

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

0.80s
#36

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4

0.80s
#37

OpenAI

GPT-5 Nano

0.73s
#38

OpenAI

GPT-4o Transcribe

0.70s
#39

Meta

Llama 4 Maverick

0.67s
#40

OpenAI

GPT-4.1

0.58s
#41

Meta

Llama 4 Scout

0.55s
#42

OpenAI

GPT-5.4

0.55s
#43

Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

0.53s
#44

Mistral AI

Mistral Small 4

0.52s
#45

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5

0.51s
#46

OpenAI

GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

0.49s
#47

OpenAI

GPT OSS 120B

0.48s
#48

OpenAI

GPT-5.4 Mini

0.48s
#49

OpenAI

GPT-5.4 Nano

0.44s
#50

Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash

0.44s
#51

Grok

Grok 4.20

0.43s
#52

Grok

Grok 4.20 (Reasoning)

0.42s
#53

Grok

Grok 4.1 Fast

0.36s
#54

Grok

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

0.30s