Five Claude calls each take 2 seconds in sequence, totaling 10 seconds — CCA Advanced Practice — Claude Cert Academy

Five Claude calls each take 2 seconds in sequence, totaling 10 seconds. Parallelized with no rate-limit constraint, what is the wall time?

• 10 seconds
• 2 seconds
• 5 seconds
• Cannot parallelize Anthropic API calls

Answer: 2 seconds

The Anthropic API handles concurrent calls cleanly. Wall time for parallel calls equals the longest single call: ~2 seconds. The constraint on parallelism is your TPM/RPM quota, not the API's ability to handle concurrent requests.

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