Beyond Gateway Latency: Unpacking the Flaws in Traditional Cloud Infrastructure Assessments

I've been watching the LLM gateway benchmarks get faster. Bifrost at 11 microseconds, Helicone at 8 milliseconds, LiteLLM at 8ms. On single requests, the math is brutal: Bifrost is 720x faster than LiteLLM. But this week I watched three teams benchmark gateways, pick based on latency, deploy to prod