Head‑to‑head of the latest GKE Inference Gateway powered by llm‑d against SageMaker’s serverless offering for batch and real‑time LLM inference.
Updated October 22, 2026
Google GKE Inference Gateway (llm‑d)
Best for workloads needing high‑throughput batch inference and teams already operating GKE.
Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference
Ideal for sporadic, low‑latency real‑time calls where you want zero‑ops provisioning.
The GKE Inference Gateway’s 4× batch speed advantage and open‑source model stack give it the edge for data‑intensive AI pipelines, especially when you control a GKE environment. SageMaker Serverless remains attractive for truly elastic, low‑volume use cases, but its size limits and cold‑start penalties hurt large‑scale LLM deployments.