Groq

Groq delivers the fastest publicly available LLM inference on the market, running Llama, Mixtral, Gemma, and other open models at speeds exceeding 500 tokens per second, typically 10-20x faster than GPU-based cloud providers. This is achieved through Groq's custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) chips, designed specifically for sequential token generation. Developers use Groq's API as a drop-in OpenAI replacement wherever response latency matters most, from real-time voice applications to low-latency agentic pipelines.

Groq features and capabilities, including which plan they need and how they compare in the CanIUse matrix.

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