GroqCloud free tier
Start building on GroqCloud's free tier with no credit card — very fast inference on open models like Llama.
- Free value
- No fixed amount
- Card required
- No card
- Expiry
- No fixed expiry
- Who
- Anyone who signs up for a GroqCloud account.
Free Groq credits & free tier
Groq runs open models extremely fast on custom hardware, and its free developer tier lets you start with no credit card through an OpenAI-compatible API.
The short answer
The GroqCloud free tier is one of the easiest no-card ways to get fast inference on Llama and other open models. Create a key at console.groq.com and start building; upgrade only if you outgrow the free rate limits.
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Frequently asked questions
- Does Groq have a free tier?
- Yes. GroqCloud offers a free developer tier with no credit card. You sign up at console.groq.com, create an API key, and call open models like Llama through an OpenAI-compatible API within per-model rate limits.
- Do I need a credit card for Groq?
- No card is needed to start on the free tier. A payment method is only required to upgrade to the paid Developer tier, which raises rate limits by up to 10x.
- What are the Groq free-tier rate limits?
- Groq sets per-model requests-per-minute, requests-per-day and tokens-per-minute limits that are shown in the GroqCloud console. Because they are not published as a fixed public table, we link to the console rather than quote specific numbers.