Reliability
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Articles
30 September 2026
Inference Provider Reliability: Verify Uptime Without an SLA
An SLA is a financial apology, not an engineering guarantee. Evaluate an inference provider's reliability by verifying their open-stack architecture, scrutinizing their public status page, and measuring latency metrics like TTFT and ITL yourself.
17 September 2026
Is Your Inference Provider Quantizing the Model: How to Tell
If a model behaves differently across providers, compare task quality under controlled settings. These tests cannot prove quantization; request documented serving details to understand the configuration.
9 June 2026
The 2026 Guide to AI Inference SLAs: Uptime, Economics, and EU Compliance
Deloitte expects inference to take roughly two-thirds of all compute in 2026. When your application relies on sub-second LLM responses, every minute of provider downtime lands on a live user session.