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title: Try-ons are now 2.4x faster
category: try-on
description: >-
  The median try-on now takes about 5 seconds, down from 12.5 seconds in August.
  72% of try-ons finish in under 10 seconds, up from 6%.
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publishedAt: '2026-10-20'
updatedAt: '2026-10-20'
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A try-on only helps if the shopper is still on the page when it arrives. Over the last six weeks we rebuilt how try-ons are generated, and the typical wait has dropped from 12.5 seconds to about 5.

## The numbers

Measured on every completed try-on, from the moment the shopper sends the photo to the moment the result is ready:

| | August 2026 | October 6 to 19, 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Median try-on | 12.5 s | 5.1 s |
| Try-ons finished in under 10 seconds | 6% | 72% |

## What changed

- **Our own GPUs.** Try-ons now run on GPU servers we operate, with an open image model set up for fashion try-on.
- **Less work per try-on.** We removed a step the model computed on every request but never used, and shrank the image the model reads for context. Quality stays the same, and the result arrives sooner.
- **Smarter routing.** Each request goes to the GPU that can start it first, with a fallback when traffic peaks.

## What you need to do

Nothing. Every store and every Try-On API request already uses the faster pipeline.

## What comes next

The slowest try-ons have not improved as much yet: about one in ten still takes more than 25 seconds, mostly during traffic peaks and on hard photos. That tail is what we are working on now.