92
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
14,400 req/day · 30 req/min · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
3m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Llama 3.3 70BMixtralGemma
Monthly Requests
14,400 requests/day
Rate Limit
30 requests/minute
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from groq 300">"text-purple-400">import Groq
client = Groq(api_key=300">"YOUR_GROQ_API_KEY")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Explain LPU 400300">">in one sentence."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
Groq's LPU (Language Processing Unit) delivers hundreds of tokens per second, making it the fastest hosted inference for open-source LLMs. The free tier is generous, stable, and production-ready for low-latency applications.
// Pros
- Insane inference speed (500+ tokens/sec)
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Generous free tier with daily resets
// Cons
- Smaller model selection vs OpenRouter
- Rate limits can hit during peak hours
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 3m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)100/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)100/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)46/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Real-time chatbotsCode generationStreaming responses
// Recent changes
May 12, 2026Added Llama 3.3 70B Versatileadded
Apr 1, 2026Increased free-tier rate limitsupdated