# Problem with api latency

**URL:** <https://community.sambanova.ai/t/problem-with-api-latency/787>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Tags:** dev\
**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.sambanova.ai/t/problem-with-api-latency/787 "2025-01-01T18:14:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![zizou.boss00](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sambanova/user_avatar/community.sambanova.ai/zizou.boss00/32/962_2.png) [@zizou.boss00](https://community.sambanova.ai/u/zizou.boss00)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.sambanova.ai/t/problem-with-api-latency/787/1 "2025-01-01T18:14:41Z")

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hi guys why sambanova api is taking so much time to respond  
the model is llama 3.3 70b  
my prompt: hello  
response: one sentence

 ![Screenshot_2025-01-01-19-07-08-99_40deb401b9ffe8e1df2f1cc5ba480b12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/sambanova/original/2X/9/9cad2f3a5352c1d0b4c37caef108b87757d06c69.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Coby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sambanova/user_avatar/community.sambanova.ai/coby/32/17_2.png) [@Coby](https://community.sambanova.ai/u/Coby)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.sambanova.ai/t/problem-with-api-latency/787/2 "2025-01-01T21:27:23Z")

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@zizou.boss00 Thank you for Joining our developer community. I know we were doing some back end node maintenance around that time frame , can you please try again ? I just hit the model with 5 curls and my average latency was sub second, with max at 1.27 seconds .

-Coby