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Groq

Ridiculously fast LLM inference.

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Best for

Developers building latency-sensitive AI apps — voice agents, real-time chat, streaming UIs — where open-weight quality is good enough.

At a glance

Pricing
freemium
Setup time
5 minutes
Learning curve
easy
Last verified
5/19/2026

What we love

  • ✓Fastest commercial LLM inference available, by a wide margin
  • ✓Free tier real enough to prototype on
  • ✓Drop-in OpenAI SDK compatibility
  • ✓No fine-tuning lock-in — runs open-weight models

Where it falls short

  • −No proprietary frontier models — capped at open-weight quality
  • −Rate limits on free tier hit quickly under load
  • −No fine-tuning yet — bring trained weights elsewhere

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

3 tiers

Free

$0

forever, rate-limited

  • ✓GroqCloud playground
  • ✓Open-weight model access
  • ✓Lower RPM limits

Developer

Pay-as-you-go

per million tokens

  • ✓~$0.59/M input on Llama 70B
  • ✓Higher rate limits
  • ✓Production SLAs

Enterprise

Custom

committed throughput

  • ✓Dedicated capacity
  • ✓Private deployments
  • ✓SLA guarantees

Why we picked it

Speed is the product. Use Groq when latency matters more than model selection.
— MoreAI.tools editor

Overview

LPU-accelerated inference serving Llama, Mixtral, and others at 500+ tokens/sec. Free tier generous; paid is pay-per-token.

Key features

  • ●LPU inference hardware — 500+ tokens/sec on Llama 70B
  • ●OpenAI-compatible API for easy migration
  • ●Hosts Llama, Mixtral, Gemma, DeepSeek, Qwen models
  • ●GroqCloud free tier with generous rate limits
  • ●Sub-second time-to-first-token latency
  • ●Whisper transcription endpoint at real-time speed
  • ●Batch API for offline workloads at 25% discount

Best use cases

Real-time chat UX

Build assistants that stream responses fast enough to feel like thinking out loud.

Voice pipelines

Pair Groq Whisper plus a Llama model for sub-second voice-to-text-to-response loops.

Bulk classification

Tag, summarize, or extract from large document batches at low per-token cost.

Integrations

OpenAI SDK
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Vercel AI SDK
LiteLLM
n8n

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