# Latency/Cost

> The degree of latency and expense incurred to serve model predictions.

Record: `lexicon:latency-cost`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-latency-cost

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Explainability/Recall](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/explainability-recall.md) and before [Metric Completeness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/metric-completeness.md).

## Category

- [Model Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/model-architecture.md)

## In tension with

- [Model Inference](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/model-inference.md)
- [Model Inference / Latency/Cost](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/latency-cost-model-inference.md)

## Linked from

- [Model Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-model-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)