{"rid":"inference/groq","card":{"rid":"inference/groq","eid":"groq","topic":"inference","slug":"groq","provider":"Groq","url":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits","domain":"groq.com","category":"inference endpoint, keyed free tier","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"request-rate","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T04:32:07.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":1,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"a Free Plan per model, printed as RPM / RPD / TPM / TPD in the page's own units: openai/gpt-oss-120b and openai/gpt-oss-20b at 30 / 1K / 8K / 200K, qwen/qwen...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"inference","per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: an inference endpoint stores nothing for the caller"},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable"},"egress":{"terms":"the response is the payload; no separate egress term is published","metered":false},"interface":["rest"],"tooling":"any OpenAI-compatible client; curl against POST {base}/chat/completions","chaining":"pairs with a free-standing agent as the email-gated fallback when a keyless endpoint's ceiling binds; the 200,000-token daily cap is the scarce link, not the request rate","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"30 / 1K / 8K / 200K on the Free plan for openai/gpt-oss-120b and openai/gpt-oss-20b, in the page's own units: 30 requests a minute, 1K requests a day, 8K tokens a minute and 200K tokens a day","source":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits, read 2026-10-22"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"RPM, RPD, TPM, TPD, ITPM and OTPM at organisation level; every dimension is evaluated and the first threshold reached binds. Cached tokens count toward none of them","source":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits, read 2026-10-22"}],"slug":"groq","provider":"Groq","url":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits","category":"inference endpoint, keyed free tier","free_tier":{"stated":"a Free Plan per model, printed as RPM / RPD / TPM / TPD in the page's own units: openai/gpt-oss-120b and openai/gpt-oss-20b at 30 / 1K / 8K / 200K, qwen/qwen3.8-27b the same, and openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at 3 / 1K / 2K / 200K. The page writes requests-per-day and tokens-per-day in thousands, so 1K is 1,000 and 200K is 200,000","unit":"tokens","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"the served page carries two tabs, Free Plan Limits and Developer Plan Limits, and seven model rows in the Free tab. The numbers are in the HTML and were parsed from it, not read from a live call The page prints the cells as 1K, 8K and 200K; the expansions here are the page's own units written out, not a conversion The page prints 1K, 8K and 200K verbatim; expanding K to a thousand is a unit reading of the page's own suffix and not a conversion between units"},"endpoint":"https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"an account and an API key","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded; no key was available","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the dimensions, the organisation scope and the seven-row free-plan table are all quoted from the served page read today. No key was available, so the enforcement of any of the numbers is not measured verified_at is the instant its evidence URLs were fetched on 2026-10-22, read from the fetch log, not typed.","evidence":[{"url":"https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"limits are RPM, RPD, TPM, TPD, ITPM and OTPM, applied at organisation level, evaluated against every dimension with the first reached binding; cached tokens do not count; the Free Plan Limits tab carries seven model rows, of which openai/gpt-oss-120b and openai/gpt-oss-20b are 30 rpm, 1K rpd, 8K tpm and 200K tpd The Free Plan Limits tab prints the cells as 30 / 1K / 8K / 200K, and the page's K suffix means thousands"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T04:32:07.000Z","notes":"Groq names six limit dimensions where most vendors name one, and it prints the free values where this topic's other keyed tiers do not. A pipeline sized on RPM alone meets TPD first: 200,000 tokens a day is 6.0M a month against a 52.5M-token target.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"TPD binds on a user's  workload: 200,000 tokens a day is 6.0M a month, which is 11.4 per cent of a 52.5M-token monthly target. The 30 rpm and 8,000 tpm figures are both workable for an interactive session"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":30,"unit":"requests","per":"minute","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}