Skip to main content

Latency

The latency metric measures whether the completion time of your LLM (application) is efficient and meets the expected time limits. It is one of the two performance metrics offered by deepeval.

info

Performance metrics in deepeval are metrics that evaluate aspects such as latency and cost, rather than the outputs of LLM (applications).

Required Arguments​

To use the LatencyMetric, you'll have to provide the following arguments when creating an LLMTestCase:

  • input
  • actual_output
  • latency

Example​

from deepeval import evaluate
from deepeval.metrics import LatencyMetric
from deepeval.test_case import LLMTestCase

metric = LatencyMetric(threshold=10.0)
test_case = LLMTestCase(
    input="...",
    actual_output="...",
    latency=9.9
)

metric.measure(test_case)
# True if latency <= threshold
print(metric.is_successful())
note

It does not matter what unit of time you provide the threshold argument with, it only has to match the unit of latency when creating an LLMTestCase.