Yes. The free tier allows 30 requests a minute and 1,000 a day on openai/gpt-oss-120b. The catch: Only 8K tokens a minute, and Llama models moved to Enterprise plans.
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What you can build within the free tier
1,000 requests a day works out to about 41 an hour if spread evenly. That is plenty for prototyping, evals on a small test set, a personal assistant or an internal tool with a handful of users. It is not enough for a public app with real traffic, and the per-minute cap (30) matters more than the daily one when you batch work. Watch the token cap too: 200,000 tokens a day is about 80 calls of 2,500 tokens each, so for normal-sized prompts the token limit runs out before the request limit.
The catch
Only 8K tokens a minute, and Llama models moved to Enterprise plans.
- Commercial use: Not confirmed
- OpenAI-compatible API: Yes
- Token cap: 200,000 tokens a day on openai/gpt-oss-120b
When to pay
Developer plan, pay per token (gpt-oss-20b from $0.075 in, $0.30 out per 1M).
Free alternatives
Same kind of service, no free tier: Together AI.
Frequently asked
Is Groq free?
Yes. The free tier allows 30 requests a minute and 1,000 a day on openai/gpt-oss-120b. The catch: Only 8K tokens a minute, and Llama models moved to Enterprise plans.
Does Groq need a credit card?
Groq's docs do not say clearly, so we list it as not confirmed.
Does Groq train on free-tier prompts?
Groq does not state this clearly in the docs we checked, so we list it as not confirmed. Read the provider's data policy before sending anything sensitive.
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