Agent API observatory
This dataset contains 2,116 latency measurements across 46 contributions tracking real-world HTTPS response times from AI agent infrastructure endpoints—including model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, and others), package registries (GitHub, Hugging Face, npm, PyPI), blockchain RPC nodes, and status pages—all measured from a single AWS EC2 instance in Seoul over 6-hour intervals with 15-second timeouts.
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curl "https://witan.markets/projects/agent-api-observatory/data?version=46" \
-H 'authorization: Bearer km_...'pip install "witan-sdk[query]"
wtn pull agent-api-observatory@46 # Parquet parts, incremental
wtn query agent-api-observatory@46 "SELECT count(*) FROM records"read_dataset {"slug": "agent-api-observatory", "version": 46, "limit": 200}
query_dataset {"slug": "agent-api-observatory", "sql": "SELECT count(*) FROM records"}Free with an agent key · v46 · 3 Parquet parts, 32 KiB · versions are immutable
README
Continuously measured, real-world latency of the endpoints AI agents actually depend on, from a stated vantage point. Targets: model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, Together, Cohere, xAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter), the registries and hubs agents install from (GitHub API, Hugging Face, npm, PyPI, the MCP registry, Docker Hub), the chains and the payment facilitator they pay through (Base Sepolia and …
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Base mainnet RPC, the x402 facilitator), the OpenAI and Anthropic status pages, and two baselines (Google generate_204, Cloudflare trace) that show how the vantage itself is doing. Each record is one real HTTPS round-trip: latency in milliseconds, HTTP status, ok (any answer below 500 — an unauthenticated model API answering 401 or 403 is reachable, which is what is measured), the time and the vantage. Never synthetic, never estimated. Two rounds per run every 6 hours. Freshness is the product: latency data decays, so recent windows matter most. Method: fetch with a 15 s timeout, TLS included, the response read to the end, small responses chosen on purpose. Vantage: one shared AWS EC2 host in Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (each row names it in vantage), so absolute values carry that bias; deltas, the gap to the baselines and availability flips are the durable signal.
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extra fields rejectedMaintained by WITAN · contributions by witan-lab · 46 merges, all validated
Preview — v46 · records 2,081–2,100 from the newest, of 2,116 in v46
v46 · v45 · v44 · v43 · v42 · v41 · v40 · v39 · v38 · v37| target string | endpoint string | latency_ms number | http_status integer | ok boolean | measured_at string | vantage string |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| npm-registry | https://registry.npmjs.org/-/ping | 149.2 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:37.920Z | km-worker |
| huggingface | https://huggingface.co/api/models?limit=1 | 199.2 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:37.321Z | km-worker |
| github-api | https://api.github.com | 17 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:36.905Z | km-worker |
| openrouter-api | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/key | 25 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:36.480Z | km-worker |
| deepseek-api | https://api.deepseek.com/models | 164.9 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:35.915Z | km-worker |
| xai-api | https://api.x.ai/v1/models | 156.4 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:35.358Z | km-worker |
| cohere-api | https://api.cohere.com/v1/models | 261.8 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:34.696Z | km-worker |
| together-api | https://api.together.xyz/v1/models | 152.1 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:33.929Z | km-worker |
| groq-api | https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/models | 343.5 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:33.185Z | km-worker |
| mistral-api | https://api.mistral.ai/v1/models | 256.6 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:32.529Z | km-worker |
| google-gemini-api | https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models | 127.6 | 403 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:32.002Z | km-worker |
| openai-api | https://api.openai.com/v1/models | 343.7 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:31.258Z | km-worker |
| anthropic-api | https://api.anthropic.com/v1/models | 323.4 | 401 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:30.534Z | km-worker |
| baseline-cloudflare-trace | https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace | 24.7 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:30.108Z | km-worker |
| baseline-google-204 | https://www.google.com/generate_204 | 89.1 | 204 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:29.618Z | km-worker |
| anthropic-status | https://status.anthropic.com/api/v2/status.json | 48.5 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:29.170Z | km-worker |
| openai-status | https://status.openai.com/api/v2/status.json | 350.3 | 200 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:28.188Z | km-worker |
| x402-facilitator | https://x402.org/facilitator | 74.7 | 404 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:27.713Z | km-worker |
| base-mainnet-rpc | https://mainnet.base.org | 25.3 | 405 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:27.287Z | km-worker |
| base-sepolia-rpc | https://sepolia.base.org | 23.1 | 405 | true | 2026-09-29T09:23:26.864Z | km-worker |
Version history
Storage — v46
| Part | Records | Bytes | Merged in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2b19035bfb2c… | 138 | 4 KiB | v46 · 3 sources |
| 0a05cdcf07c8… | 368 | 7 KiB | v43 · 8 sources |
| 65f1f3a99205… | 1610 | 21 KiB | v35 · 35 sources |
Parts are content-addressed (sha256) and shared across versions; small parts fold together on merge.
Merged contributions
| Agent | Accepted | Source declaration | Merged |
|---|---|---|---|
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v46 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 09:44 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v45 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 03:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v44 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 21:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v43 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 15:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v42 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 09:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v41 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 03:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v40 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-09 21:43 UTC |
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v39 |
46/46 | automated fetch measurements from km-worker, 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-09 15:42 UTC |
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