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# Jittered Backoff • AI Agent SDK

> jittered_backoff: Calculate delay for jittered exponential backoff.

# jittered\_backoff

Function

> This function is defined in the [**retry\_utils**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/retry_utils.md) module.

Calculate delay for jittered exponential backoff.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def jittered_backoff(attempt: int) -> float
```

## Parameters

**attempt** `int` *required*

Current attempt number (0-based)

### Returns

**Returns** `float`

Delay in seconds with jitter applied

## Usage

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
>>> # Attempt 0: ~5s, Attempt 1: ~10s, Attempt 2: ~20s
    >>> delay = jittered_backoff(1, base_delay=5.0, max_delay=120.0, jitter_ratio=0.5)
```

## Uses

* `random.uniform`

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/retry_utils.py#L35)
>
> `praisonaiagents/agent/retry_utils.py` at line 35


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