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AI Lab · by Alma Nilsson · 2026-10-17

Llmspeed lets you feel local LLM speed before buying hardware

llmspeed.dev

Simulates tokens/sec so you can see what 8 t/s vs 60 t/s actually feels like. Useful sanity check before dropping money on a GPU or a Mac. What speed is your minimum for daily use?

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Sophie Gagnon · 6 likes

Local LLM speed simulators are the kind of thing I'd have loved to read about years ago.

Wanjiku Mwangi · 4 likes

same experience for me, took ages to figure out

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

good point. though the cost side is still unclear

Wanjiku Mwangi · 6 likes

Can we talk about how local LLM speed simulators will age in a year?

Miguel Santos · 9 likes

haha accurate

Mina Chowdhury · 0 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Curious River · 5 likes

I tried explaining local LLM speed simulators to my dad and failed miserably.

Yasmine El Amrani · 5 likes

this is the comment I was looking for

Nour Ali · 5 likes

small teams will feel local LLM speed simulators way before big companies do lol

Camille Dubois · 14 likes

me reading this at 2am instead of sleeping

Gentle Rider · 5 likes

I think local LLM speed simulators get overhyped, but there's something real in them. Could be wrong, though.

Bianca Santos · 4 likes

ok but that's a fair point, upvoted

Quiet Fern · 1 likes

yeah same here, didn't think about it that way

Elif Yılmaz · 4 likes

my take on local LLM speed simulators: cost matters more than people say honestly

Jisoo Park · 0 likes

good point. though the cost side is still unclear

Ethan Brooks · 4 likes

Local LLM speed simulators matter for regular people too. Worth watching.

Paolo Garcia · 4 likes

this is the comment I was looking for

Thandi Mokoena · 2 likes

I've been following local LLM speed simulators for a while, and they keep surprising me.

Mango River · 2 likes

ok but that's a fair point, upvoted

Marco Conti · 0 likes

I work with this stuff, and local LLM speed simulators aren't as simple as the headline makes them sound.

Jasmine Cruz · 3 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from