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Groq free tier limits

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Groq, Inc. · Free tier

Free allowance

1,000requests a day

30 requests a minute

Free tier· console.groq.com

Free plan with a published rate-limit table per model.

Higher limits need the Developer plan.

  • Card: not stated
  • Works with OpenAI code
  • Accepts images
Free allowance
30 req/min · 1,000 req/day

Chat models; 8K tokens/min and 200K tokens/day.

Requests / min
30

openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b, qwen/qwen3.8-27b.

Requests / day
1,000

Chat models. Prompt-guard models: 14,400/day.

Tokens / min
8,000
Tokens / day
200K
Card to start
Not published

The rate-limits page does not say whether a card is needed to sign up.

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.

Commercial use
Not verified
OpenAI SDK
Yes

No logprobs, logit_bias or n > 1.

Image input
Yes

qwen/qwen3.8-27b; up to 3 images per request.

Where it is offered
Not verified

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Free-plan limits per model

Groq limits per model
Model idReq / minReq / dayTokens / minTokens / dayNote
openai/gpt-oss-120b301,0008,000200K
openai/gpt-oss-20b301,0008,000200K
openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b301,0008,000200K
qwen/qwen3.8-27b301,0008,000200KAccepts images.
meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m3014.4K15K500K
meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m3014.4K15K500K
whisper-large-v3202,000n/an/aSpeech to text: 7,200 audio seconds/hour, 28,800/day.
whisper-large-v3-turbo202,000n/an/aSpeech to text: 7,200 audio seconds/hour, 28,800/day.
canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english101001,2003,600Text to speech.
canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi101001,2003,600Text to speech.

Table read on · console.groq.com

What the numbers mean in practice

Groq publishes a limit for each model, and the binding one for chat is usually tokens, not requests. At 8,000 tokens per minute, a single request with a 6,000-token prompt uses most of the minute; at 200,000 tokens per day, a chatbot averaging 2,000 tokens per exchange stops after about a hundred exchanges, long before the 1,000 requests per day.

Only one model in the free table accepts images (qwen/qwen3.8-27b), and each image is billed as 2,048 input tokens: three images in one request already take 6,144 of the 8,000 tokens per minute.

Getting a Groq key

  1. Sign in to the Groq console.
  2. Open “API Keys” and create a key.
  3. Store it in the GROQ_API_KEY environment variable; never in the page or in source control.

These steps are a summary of the provider’s console and were not re-walked with a new account; the screens may differ. Open the Groq console.

Test the key with one request

Language
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 · 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.

Groq against the others

Questions and answers

What are the Groq free tier limits?

Free tier: 30 req/min · 1,000 req/day. Requests per minute: 30. Requests per day: 1,000. Read on the official page on 3 Oct 2026.

Does Groq require a credit card?

not published (The rate-limits page does not say whether a card is needed to sign up).

Does Groq train on data sent to the free tier?

not published (The data page says “By default, Groq does not retain customer data for inference requests”. It does not address training).

Can I use the Groq free tier commercially?

not verified on an official page.

Is Groq compatible with the OpenAI SDK?

Yes. Set the base URL to https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 and the model to an id such as openai/gpt-oss-120b.

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