Always-free quotaPrivateHigh confidence
GroqCloud
A recurring no-cost API allowance covering 12 cataloged models.
Free accessAlways-free quota
Payment cardNo
AccountRequired
Sources12 first-party links
API endpoint
https://api.groq.com/openai/v1Models mentioned
canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudicanopylabs/orpheus-v1-englishgroq/compoundgroq/compound-minimeta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22mmeta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86mopenai/gpt-oss-120bopenai/gpt-oss-20bopenai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20bqwen/qwen3.6-27bwhisper-large-v3whisper-large-v3-turboEquivalent paid value
Daily$2.31
Weekly$16.14
Monthly$70.20
One-time—
How this was valued: Sum of independently published daily free-model quotas at Groq's current Developer paid rates. Each shared total-token envelope is allocated to costlier output tokens for a deterministic best-case upper bound; Compound systems without a public unit rate are excluded.
Limits and terms
- Scope
- organization
- Caveat
- The signed-in organization Limits page is authoritative if it differs from this public-table snapshot.
What happens to your prompts?
PrivateReviewed
Inputs and outputs are not retained by default or used for training without permission; limited abuse and feature-specific retention exceptions remain.
- Plan Scope
- GroqCloud inference and related API features; offline negotiated terms may supersede the online agreement.
- Prompt Retention
- Inference inputs and outputs are not retained by default. Reliability or abuse logs may retain them up to 30 days; batch files are retained up to 30 days and fine-tuning data until deleted.
- Response Retention
- Same policy as prompts and feature state.
- Ordinary Logging
- Usage metadata is always retained and excludes customer inputs and outputs.
- Model Training
- Groq is not permitted to train or fine-tune models on inputs or outputs without explicit customer permission or instruction.
- Product Improvement
- Customer data use is limited to providing the service, customer instructions, law, reliable operation, and acceptable-use enforcement under the current agreement.
- Human Or Operator Access
- Access may occur as needed for reliable operation, abuse investigation, legal compliance, or customer-instructed features; zero-data-retention controls restrict reliability and abuse access.
- Subprocessors And Routing
- Groq affiliates, subprocessors, and contractors receive limited rights needed to deliver the service; third-party model terms may also apply.
- Deletion Controls
- All customers may enable zero data retention. The agreement calls for deletion of customer data within 30 days after termination, subject to documented or legal exceptions.
- Caveat
- Zero data retention disables features that require stored application state; regional and offline agreements may differ.
Governing documents
- Services Agreement
- https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/services-agreement
- Privacy Policy
- https://groq.com/privacy-policy
- Acceptable Use Policy
- https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/ai-policy
- Data Processing Addendum
- https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/customer-data-processing-addendum
Eligibility
- Account Required
- Yes
- Payment Method Required
- No
Primary sources
Official DocsRate limitshttps://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limitsOfficial DocsBilling FAQhttps://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqsOfficial DocsModelshttps://console.groq.com/docs/modelsAnnouncement · 2024-04-02GroqCloud demand announcementhttps://groq.com/newsroom/demand-for-real-time-ai-inference-from-groq-accelerates-week-over-weekOfficial Terms · 2026-06-22Groq Services Agreementhttps://console.groq.com/docs/legal/services-agreementOfficial PrivacyPrivacy Policyhttps://groq.com/privacy-policyOfficial AupAcceptable Use and Responsible AI Policyhttps://console.groq.com/docs/legal/ai-policyOfficial DpaCustomer Data Processing Addendumhttps://console.groq.com/docs/legal/customer-data-processing-addendumOfficial DocsYour Data in GroqCloudhttps://console.groq.com/docs/your-dataOfficial Press ReleaseGroq raises $650M and serves more than five million developers (2026-06-22)https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-raises-usd650m-to-scale-its-ai-inference-cloud-businessOfficial Adoption1 million developers on GroqCloud milestone (2025-03)https://groq.com/blog/thank-you-1m-developers-building-with-groqcloudPackage Registry StatsPyPI download stats for groqhttps://pypistats.org/packages/groq