Always-free quotaPrivateHigh confidence

GroqCloud

A recurring no-cost API allowance covering 12 cataloged models.

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Free accessAlways-free quota
Payment cardNo
AccountRequired
Sources12 first-party links
API endpointhttps://api.groq.com/openai/v1

Models mentioned

12
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-turbo

Equivalent paid value

At least $70.20/mo
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.

Eligibility

Account Required
Yes
Payment Method Required
No

Primary sources

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