Groq API pricing and models
Groq publishes per-token prices for 4 text models, as of October 20, 2026. The lowest output rate is $0.30 per million tokens, on GPT OSS 20B, and the highest-scoring model it serves is Qwen3.8-27B, in preview, at 73 on our 100-point score.
Groq serves open-weight models on its own LPU chips and sells them per token through GroqCloud.
Every model Groq prices, with its score
Prices are US dollars per million tokens, read from GroqDocs supported models on the date above. The score is our 100-point rating of the model, the same on every host.
| Model | Score | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached /1M | Context | Listed speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27BPreviewqwen/qwen3.8-27b | 73 | $0.80 | $4.00 | — | 131K | 450 tok/s |
| GPT OSS 120Bopenai/gpt-oss-120b | 55 | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.075 | 131K | 500 tok/s |
| GPT OSS 20Bopenai/gpt-oss-20b | 50 | $0.075 | $0.30 | $0.037 | 131K | 1,000 tok/s |
1 more model Groq prices that we don’t score
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached /1M | Context | Listed speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safety GPT OSS 20BPreviewopenai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | $0.075 | $0.30 | $0.037 | 131K | 1,000 tok/s |
- Groq’s pricing page carries no rate table. The per-token prices sit on each model’s page in the GroqDocs, which is where we read them.
- Llama 3.1 8B, Llama 3.3 70B, Muse Spark Open and MiniMax M2.7 are listed for enterprise customers with no public price, so they are not in the table.
We paid for 450 requests on Groq
Groq hosts neither reference model, so it receives no score. On qwen3.8-27b it returned a 0.43-second median at $0.89 per million tokens blended, more per token than DeepInfra charged for GLM-5.2, and it was the only platform to return rate-limit errors mid-run (250,000 tokens per minute on the on-demand tier).
| Model run | Invoiced /1M blended | Median latency | p95 latency | Succeeded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.89 | 0.43 s | 2.00 s | 99.1% |
Run on September 1, 2026 with 450 requests per model: short prompts, 20,000-token documents and tool calls. Method and every invoice are on the OpenRouter alternatives audit.
Hosts that sell the same models
Each row counts the scored models both hosts price, and how many of those cost less per output token there than on Groq.
Questions
How much does the Groq API cost?
Groq bills per million tokens, with separate input and output rates for each model. On October 20, 2026 its output rates ran from $0.30 on GPT OSS 20B to $4.00 across 4 paid models. Input is usually cheaper than output, so a long prompt with a short reply costs less than the output rate suggests.
Which models can you run on Groq?
4 text models are listed, and 3 of them match a model we score. The highest-scoring is Qwen3.8-27B at 73. The table on this page has every model with its input, output and cached-input rate, the context window, and the date we read the price.
Is Groq fast?
In our paid September 1, 2026 run, Groq returned a median of 0.43 seconds and a p95 of 2.00 seconds on qwen/qwen3.8-27b, over 450 requests. Its docs list 450 to 1,000 tokens per second, depending on the model.
What are the alternatives to Groq?
DeepInfra lists 3 of the same models and charges less output per token on 3 of them. OpenRouter and Novita AI also overlap. Price is only part of the choice: speed, rate limits and which model snapshot a host serves differ too.