AI tokenomics

Unlock More AI Output From Your Existing GPU Investment

AI inference performance is no longer determined by GPUs alone. As AI scales, traffic management, latency, and resource efficiency determine how many tokens your infrastructure can actually produce.

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AI inference breaks traditional traffic assumptions

Traditional applications generated predictable, short-lived requests. AI inference introduces dynamic workloads where GPU utilization, latency, and traffic patterns constantly change.

Without intelligent traffic control, organizations risk:

GPU imbalance and wasted capacity

Increased latency and slower user experiences

Higher cost per token

Infrastructure inefficiency at scale

Independently validated AI inference gains

F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes delivered:
47% higher token image

86 % token image

47% lower

Tested under sustained AI inference workloads with NVIDIA infrastructure.

Performance metric
BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with AI Intelligence load balancing
Open source
HAProxy
Envoy
Cilium (node port)
F5 Advantage

Output token (token/second)

1,980

1,346

1,349

1,448

1,357

+47% vs. open source

+47% vs. HAProxy

+37% vs. Envoy

Download the full report to learn:

  • How intelligent AI load balancing improves token economics
  • Why traditional round-robin approaches struggle with AI inference
  • How real-time GPU and system telemetry improves routing decisions
  • The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU reference architecture used for testing
  • Full comparison results against open-source and commercial implementations

Improve AI Factory Economics

In AI infrastructure, success is measured by how efficiently systems generate tokens — not just how many GPUs are deployed.

BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes helps optimize:

• Tokens generated per GPU
• Time to First Token
• Infrastructure efficiency
• Predictable inference performance