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Anthropic cuts Messages API pre-processing and stops request buffering

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Anthropic says it reduced the work the Messages API performs before a request reaches the model, which lowered time to first token.

The company also stopped buffering incoming requests and made several smaller infrastructure improvements, according to a post from its ClaudeDevs account on X dated 2026-10-16. The post does not give the size of the latency reduction.

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Anthropic cuts Messages API pre-processing to lower time to first token

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    Anthropic cuts Messages API pre-processing to lower time to first token

    AIAnthropic says it reduced the work the Messages API performs before a request reaches the model, which lowered time to first token. The company also stopped buffering incoming requests and made several smaller infrastructure improvements.

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