Groq model pricing.
Prices checked
Groq sells 9 prices on 9 models, from $0.06 per million tokens, checked .
Every model Groq sells
- 1Same as maker
$0.05 in · $0.08 out
$0.06/M tokens - 2Costs more
$0.07 in · $0.30 out
$0.13/M tokens - 3Same as maker
$0.07 in · $0.30 out
$0.13/M tokens - 4Runs it themselves
$0.20 in · $0.20 out
$0.20/M tokens - 5Same as maker
$0.15 in · $0.60 out
$0.26/M tokens - 6Costs more
$0.59 in · $0.79 out
$0.64/M tokens - 7Costs more
$0.60 in · $1.80 out
$0.90/M tokens - 8Same as maker
$0.60 in · $3 out
$1.20/M tokens - 9Costs more
$0.80 in · $4 out
$1.60/M tokens
Where to start
Cheapest
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
131k context · tool calling · structured output
Groq
$0.06/M tokens
The least you pay per million tokens at Groq.
Biggest saving
Llama Guard 3 8B
131k context · open weights
Groq
$0.20/M tokens
46% less than you pay Cloudflare Workers AI for it.
Most widely sold and cheapest with 1M
Qwen3.8 27B
1M context · tool calling · reads images
Groq
$1.60/M tokens
74 providers sell it, so you can hold this price against theirs.
Kind
Host
based in US
Free tier
No
every price is paid
Frequently asked
- What is Groq?
- Serves open-weight models on its own LPU hardware with a free tier. It sells 9 of the models we track, and trades as Groq, Inc., based in US.
- Is Groq cheaper than buying from the maker?
- 2 of its 9 prices are below the maker's own price, and 1 of those come with a published reason, so they can lead a ranking.
- Does Groq train on what you send it?
- Groq does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
- How current are these Groq prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read, read every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 31 Oct 2026. Prices exclude tax.
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