Groq vs Cloudflare Workers AI: free tiers compared

Both columns come from each provider’s own pages, with the day each line was read. Where a page does not state a value, the cell says so.

Groq and Cloudflare Workers AI free tiers side by side
Line	GroqFree tier	Cloudflare Workers AIFree tier
Free allowance	30 req/min · 1,000 req/day Chat models; 8K tokens/min and 200K tokens/day. 3 Oct	10,000 Neurons/day Resets at 00:00 UTC. Going above it needs Workers Paid ($0.011 per 1,000 Neurons). 3 Oct
Requests / min	30 openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b, qwen/qwen3.8-27b. 3 Oct	Not published The allowance is counted in Neurons, not in requests. 3 Oct
Requests / day	1,000 Chat models. Prompt-guard models: 14,400/day. 3 Oct	Not published The allowance is counted in Neurons, not in requests. 3 Oct
Tokens / min	8,000 3 Oct	Not published The allowance is counted in Neurons, not in tokens. 3 Oct
Tokens / day	200K 3 Oct	Not published The allowance is counted in Neurons, not in tokens. 3 Oct
Card to start	Not published The rate-limits page does not say whether a card is needed to sign up. 3 Oct	Not verified
Trains on your data	Not published The data page says “By default, Groq does not retain customer data for inference requests”. It does not address training. 3 Oct	No “Cloudflare does not use your Customer Content to train any AI models made available on Workers AI.” 3 Oct
Commercial use	Not verified	Not verified
OpenAI SDK	Yes No logprobs, logit_bias or n > 1. 3 Oct	Yes Chat completions and embeddings; the base URL contains your account id. 3 Oct
Image input	Yes qwen/qwen3.8-27b; up to 3 images per request. 3 Oct	Not verified

18 of 24 cells above were read on the provider’s own page in the last 30 days (oldest check: 3 Oct 2026). Each check mark opens that page. The other 6 say “not verified” instead of repeating a number from someone else’s article.

Where they differ

Groq publishes its requests per minute (30); Cloudflare Workers AI does not publish that figure.
Groq publishes its requests per day (1,000); Cloudflare Workers AI does not publish that figure.
Image input is confirmed on Groq and not confirmed on Cloudflare Workers AI.

Only differences confirmed on both sides are listed. We do not rank speed or output quality: this site does not measure them.

Same code for both

Both expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Choose either provider below and compare the three values that change.

base_url: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
model: openai/gpt-oss-120b
key from: $GROQ_API_KEY

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["GROQ_API_KEY"],
)

reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Reply with the word: ok"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

Endpoint read on 3 Oct 2026· console.groq.com

The key is read from an environment variable on your machine. This site has no field for keys and never asks for one.

Other comparisons

Questions and answers

Which has the higher free limit, Groq or Cloudflare Workers AI?

Groq: 30 req/min · 1,000 req/day. Cloudflare Workers AI: 10,000 Neurons/day. The units differ between providers, so compare them against your own traffic.

Do Groq and Cloudflare Workers AI need a credit card?

Groq: not published (the rate-limits page does not say whether a card is needed to sign up). Cloudflare Workers AI: not verified on an official page.

Which one trains on my prompts?

Groq: not published (the data page says “by default, groq does not retain customer data for inference requests”. it does not address training). Cloudflare Workers AI: no.

Can I use both with the same code?

Yes. Both expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 and https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1. Only the base URL, the model name and the key change.