Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  Groq |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes Free plan with per-model rate limits. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Starting price | $0.15 per 1M input tokens GPT-OSS 120B; $0.60 per 1M output tokens. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Rate limit | 30 requests/min Free plan, openai/gpt-oss-120b; 1K requests/day, 8K tokens/min. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Size limit | 131K token context GPT-OSS 120B (Whisper speech-to-text: 100 MB max file). Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Official SDKs |
| EU hosting | No Retained customer data is stored in GCP buckets in the United States. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2HIPAASource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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