How does pricing work on Groq?

Groq is billed per 1 million tokens with zero idle server retention charges.

How much can I save on Groq?

Developers save approximately 80% to 90% compared to proprietary frontier APIs like OpenAI GPT-4o.

Groq Token Spend Simulator

Verified Formula

Simulate prompt & completion token costs with zero idle cluster overhead

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Interactive Token Spend Simulation

Groq Monthly API Token Spend Simulator

Simulate monthly inference cost across open foundation models. Zero idle cluster fees, pure pay-per-token API billing.

Cross-API Token Rates

Workload Presets:

1. Select AI Foundation ModelLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct (128K Context)

2. Monthly Prompt (Input) Tokens20 Million Tokens ($11.80)

1M (Dev)50M (App)200M (RAG)500M (Scale)

3. Monthly Generated (Output) Tokens5 Million Tokens ($3.95)

1M20M50M100M

Serverless Advantage: Zero Idle Disk or GPU Fees

Unlike renting raw GPU instances where stopped persistent volumes incur $0.10/GB/month and idle compute bills 24/7, Groq charges purely for generated tokens. When your app receives zero traffic, your hourly cost is strictly $0.00.

Estimated Monthly Token BillPay-per-token

$15.75 / month

Total volume: 25.0M tokens / month

Input Prompt Tokens (20M):$11.80

Completion Tokens (5M):$3.95

Idle Server / Disk Retention Fee:$0.00 (Zero)

You save ~$84/mo (84%) vs OpenAI GPT-4o

Equivalent volume on OpenAI GPT-4o costs approx. $100/mo ($2.50/$10.00 per 1M).

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Token Price Battle Hardware Sizing Hub

Cost for 25M Tokens Across Providers:

Groq (Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct):$15.75

OpenAI GPT-4o:$100.00

Claude 3.5 Sonnet:$135.00

Why Serverless APIs Eliminate Idle Stopped Storage Fees

When self-hosting open models like DeepSeek-R1 or Llama 3.3 on container clouds, an idle instance still accrues disk volume fees (approx. $0.10/GB/month) and you pay for every hour the server remains active. With Groq's serverless API, there is zero idle compute or disk billing. You only pay for generated tokens.

0 Traffic Hour$0.00 / hourZero idle costs

OpenAI API Compatibility100% Drop-inChange baseURL only

Cost Savings vs GPT-4o~80% - 90% LessEquivalent frontier intelligence

Monthly Token Spend Benchmark vs Frontier APIs (25M Tokens)

Scenario: 20M prompt tokens + 5M completion tokens

Groq

~$7 - $25

DeepSeek-R1 / Llama 3.3

Together AI

~$22 - $28

$0.88/1M prompt & completion

OpenAI GPT-4o

~$100.00

$2.50 in / $10.00 out per 1M

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

~$135.00

$3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M