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Groq

Ultra-fast LLM inference

🧠 LLMs & APIs
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Inference cloud on custom LPU hardware serving open models at very high tokens per second.

Use it when…

Latency matters, e.g. voice agents.

Skip it if…

You need proprietary frontier models.

Score breakdown

Job fit15/30
Ease / time-to-first-result14/15
Value13/15
Momentum11/15
Openness & portability7/10
Trust & maturity8/10
Builder/gamer bonus4/5

Initial editorial estimate from public info; not yet hands-on tested. How we score →

Details

Pricing
Free tier; pay-per-token
Unverified. Unverified: editorial summary. We couldn't confirm this on an official pricing page (JS-rendered, no public pricing, or usage-based) as of Oct 18, 2026.
Free tier
Yes (unverified)
Platforms
API
Open source
No
Official URL
https://groq.com
URL verified
Oct 18, 2026 (curl HTTP GET)
Last reviewed
Oct 18, 2026 by agent
Sources
https://groq.com

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