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Groq free tier

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · groq.com · back to the whole list

What you get

Fast inference against a free plan Groq publishes as a per-model rate table

Free models

gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, qwen3.8-27b

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Coding models: 30 requests/minute; 1,000 requests/day; 8,000 tokens/minute; 200,000 tokens/day per organization per model; for openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b, qwen/qwen3.8-27b

These are the Free Plan limits for the coding models, shared by keys in the same organization. Classifiers, guardrails, speech and voice models have separate limits; their API examples do not establish free coding-model eligibility. Groq calls the table “a high level summary and there may be exceptions”; the account limits page gives the exact values.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

What happens to what you send

What you send is not used to train models. In the vendor’s words: “For clarity, Groq is not permitted to use Inputs or Outputs for training or fine-tuning any AI Model Services or other models, unless explicitly granted permission or instructed by Customer.” (source).

Connect

Base URL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
Key: GROQ_API_KEY — get one at https://console.groq.com/keys
Callable ids: openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b, qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Note: the chat models Groq’s own Free Plan Limits table names; its safeguard and prompt-guard classifiers, compound systems, whisper and orpheus rows are left out

Try it from your terminal with your key in GROQ_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:

curl -s https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GROQ_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"openai/gpt-oss-120b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits, anchored on free plan limits, qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Source: https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits
Source: https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

History

Each line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.

2026-09-27 — Free models changed: dropped qwen3.6
2026-09-25 — Free models changed: added gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b; dropped gpt-oss
2026-09-17 — Free models changed: added qwen3.8-27b; dropped qwen3.8
2026-09-07 — Free models changed: added qwen3.8; dropped llama-3.3
2026-08-14 — Free models changed: added gpt-oss, llama-3.3, qwen3.6; dropped llama-4, qwen3
2026-07-19 — Added: Fast inference free tier

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