Native AI vs Plugin Speed
Same query: “Show me deals closing this month”
SalesSheet Native AI
Direct Data Access
Query
“Show me deals closing this month”
200
ms
Total response time
0ms
Read in-memory state
50ms
Construct prompt with full context
150ms
Generate + render response
VS
Plugin / Wrapper AI
API Round-Trip Chain
Query
“Show me deals closing this month”
3.2
sec
Total response time
200ms
Send to plugin server
800ms
Plugin calls CRM API
500ms
CRM returns data
400ms
Plugin formats prompt
1.1s
LLM generates response
200ms
Render in widget
16x faster
Native AI eliminates 5 network hops from the response chain