Groq

Groq builds custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) silicon optimized for low-latency LLM inference. The GroqCloud API serves popular open models (Llama, GPT OSS, Whisper, Orpheus) at industry-leading tokens-per-second with an OpenAI-compatible interface.

Groq publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Audio API, Batch API, Chat API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, LPU, and Low Latency.

The Groq catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Groq’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

33.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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Artificial Intelligence LLM InferenceLPULow Latency Real-Time

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 33.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 3.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/groq: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 1

Interfaces this provider implements that became standards by being copied rather than ratified. Each is profiled by the API Commons, and the evidence column says how the claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface reaches extended

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Groq Audio API

The Audio API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for audio.

Groq Batch API

The Batch API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for batch.

Groq Chat API

The Chat API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for chat.

Groq Embeddings API

The Embeddings API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.

Groq Files API

The Files API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for files.

Groq Fine Tuning API

The Fine Tuning API from Groq — 2 operation(s) for fine tuning.

Groq Models API

The Models API from Groq — 2 operation(s) for models.

Groq Reranking API

The Reranking API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for reranking.

Groq Responses API

The Responses API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for responses.

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Batch API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Fine Tuning API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Reranking API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud Audio Responses API

OPEN COLLECTION

GroqCloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Groq Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Groq Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Groq Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Groq Chat Completions Streaming (HTTP + SSE)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Groq's **chat completion streaming** surface. Groq does not publish a WebSocket API. The only asynchronous / event-style transport documented at http...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Groq API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Groq Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Groq Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Groq Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Groq Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Groq Agentic Access

23 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: groq
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/groq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Groq
kind: company
description: Groq builds custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) silicon optimized for low-latency LLM inference. The GroqCloud
  API serves popular open models (Llama, GPT OSS, Whisper, Orpheus) at industry-leading tokens-per-second with an OpenAI-compatible
  interface.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groq.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Inference
- LPU
- Low Latency
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- LPU
- Low Latency
- Real-Time
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: groq:groq-audio-api
  name: Groq Audio API
  description: The Audio API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for audio.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-audio-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-batch-api
  name: Groq Batch API
  description: The Batch API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for batch.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Batch
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-batch-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-chat-api
  name: Groq Chat API
  description: The Chat API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-embeddings-api
  name: Groq Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-files-api
  name: Groq Files API
  description: The Files API from Groq — 3 operation(s) for files.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-fine-tuning-api
  name: Groq Fine Tuning API
  description: The Fine Tuning API from Groq — 2 operation(s) for fine tuning.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Fine-Tuning
  tags_raw:
  - Fine Tuning
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-fine-tuning-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-models-api
  name: Groq Models API
  description: The Models API from Groq — 2 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-reranking-api
  name: Groq Reranking API
  description: The Reranking API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for reranking.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Reranking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-reranking-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
- aid: groq:groq-responses-api
  name: Groq Responses API
  description: The Responses API from Groq — 1 operation(s) for responses.
  humanURL: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  tags:
  - Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groq-responses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#chat
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/groq-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/reasoning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/vision
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/content-moderation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/batch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/flex-processing
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#files
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference#models
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/tools
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/lora
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.groq.com/docs/prompt-caching
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/groq-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/groq-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/groq-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/groq-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/groq-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/groq
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groq
- type: Website
  url: https://groq.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://console.groq.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/groq-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/groq-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/groq-finops.yml
- url: https://groq.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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