Groq is listed under Model Hosting & Inference APIs, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at groq.com.
Groq is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Groq does 4 things the catalog singles out: Ultra-fast inference on custom lpus; sub-second responses for open models; openai-compatible api; generous free tier.
Baseten is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Model Hosting & Inference APIs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Cerebras Inference, Cloudflare Workers AI and Fireworks AI also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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