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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
Initial editorial estimate from public info; not yet hands-on tested. How we score →
Details
- Pricing
- Free tier; pay-per-tokenUnverified. 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
Changelog
- Oct 18, 2026: Initial listing; score 72 (A) as editorial estimate.
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