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GPUs to serve N users at a latency SLA, chat or agentic.

6 articlesOpen the Capacity Planner

  1. 01

    Capacity Planner — step-by-step sizing guide

    Size GPUs for a user count and a latency SLA: inputs, the anchor card, alternatives and how to read the result.

    6 min read · updated 2026-10-26
  2. 02

    Agentic mode — sizing session-based workloads

    Turn a session profile (turns, prefix, sub-agents, compaction, cache) into active streams, prefill load and cost per session.

    10 min read · updated 2026-10-26
  3. 03

    Pareto explorer — the idea, on an example

    Every feasible configuration plotted by cost and latency, with the frontier marked, explained on a worked example.

    4 min read · updated 2026-10-26
  4. 04

    Capacity Planner — modeling assumptions

    The assumptions behind the sizing: statistical multiplexing, shared prefix, prefill load and the risk quantile.

    4 min read · updated 2026-10-26
  5. 05

    KV risk gauge and occupancy trend

    What the KV risk gauge and the occupancy trend show and how the preemption-risk setting changes the reserve.

    4 min read · updated 2026-10-26
  6. 06

    Capacity Planner vs Inference calculator

    The calculator answers what fits at a batch size; the planner inverts it from a user count and a latency SLA.

    3 min read · updated 2026-10-26