Performance
Security at the Speed of Direct
Layr8 adds identity-based security to your API calls with negligible overhead. Milliseconds, not seconds.
Head-to-Head Comparison
Detailed Benchmarks
Real-world performance across different operation types. All tests conducted against production APIs.
Real-World Cross-Region
In production, APIs connect across regions and organizations. Layr8's persistent connection pooling eliminates repeated handshake overhead — making secured requests faster than direct connections.
Measured against a cross-region PostgreSQL database. Direct connections pay TCP + TLS + auth handshake per request. Layr8 agents maintain persistent connection pools, amortizing that cost across all requests.
How we keep it fast
We obsess over performance so you don't have to. Here's how Layr8 maintains near-zero overhead while providing full identity verification and audit logging.
Persistent Connection Pooling
This is the biggest win. Agents maintain long-lived connections to backend services, eliminating TCP + TLS + auth handshake per request. This alone made Layr8 57% faster than direct in cross-region tests.
gRPC Inter-Node Transport
Cloud-nodes communicate via binary gRPC streams, not JSON over HTTP. Multiplexed, compressed, and persistent.
Smart Caching
DID resolution and policy checks are cached. Repeat calls from verified identities skip re-validation.
Async Audit Logging*Coming Soon
Audit logs written after the response is sent. Full transparency without blocking.
See it for yourself
Run your own benchmarks. We'll set up a test environment so you can measure the difference.