From c305e12cd157f232729a406560de0025cefdea85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexsander Hamir <alexsanderhamirgomesbaptista@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:00:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add performance improvements section to v1.80.14
 release notes

Add new performance section highlighting 50% overhead reduction and 2.5x throughput improvement with before/after benchmark statistics.
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 .../release_notes/v1.80.14/index.md           | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/my-website/release_notes/v1.80.14/index.md b/docs/my-website/release_notes/v1.80.14/index.md
index 38751f80aeb..58395937690 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/release_notes/v1.80.14/index.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/release_notes/v1.80.14/index.md
@@ -57,6 +57,56 @@ pip install litellm==1.80.14
 - **UI Usage - Endpoint Activity** - Users can now see Endpoint Activity Metrics in the UI.
 
 
+---
+
+## Performance - 50% Overhead Reduction
+
+LiteLLM now sends 2.5× more requests to LLM providers by reducing wrapper function overhead across all endpoints.
+
+### Before
+
+```
+============================================================
+Fake LLM Provier Stats (When called by LiteLLM)
+============================================================
+Requests/Second:       10746.68
+
+Latency Statistics (seconds):
+   Mean:               0.2039s
+   Median (p50):       0.2310s
+   Min:                0.0323s
+   Max:                0.3928s
+   Std Dev:            0.1166s
+   p95:                0.3574s
+   p99:                0.3748s
+
+Status Codes:
+   200: 6000
+```
+
+### After
+
+```
+============================================================
+Fake LLM Provier Stats (When called by LiteLLM)
+============================================================
+Requests/Second:       4224.49
+
+Latency Statistics (seconds):
+   Mean:               0.5300s
+   Median (p50):       0.5871s
+   Min:                0.0885s
+   Max:                1.0482s
+   Std Dev:            0.3065s
+   p95:                0.9750s
+   p99:                1.0444s
+
+Status Codes:
+   200: 6000
+```
+
+> The benchmarks run LiteLLM locally with a lightweight LLM provider to eliminate network latency, isolating internal overhead and bottlenecks so we can focus on reducing pure LiteLLM overhead on a single instance.
+
 ---
 
 ### UI Usage - Endpoint Activity