Groq

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Default (embedded) provider is Groq, because when I start the project, was the best free API service for AI.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-28

• “really terrible experience trying to use Groq, and I would NOT recommend anyone use their service if you need reliability. So many random errors, so many silly quirks.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “Llama 4 on Groq was ~GPT 4.1 on the benchmark at ~50% the cost.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-08

• “Uses Groq's free AI to detect and move spam/marketing emails to trash. No monthly API cost – keeps your inbox clean at $0.”

  POSITIVE · price · n8n_community · 2026-03-26

• “Groq is insanely fast if you want pure performance from an LLM. Like <200ms to complete a response.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-23

• “I look to groq for narrow domain responses - these smaller models are fantastic for that and there's often no need for something heavier. Getting the latency of reponses down means you can use LLM-assisted processing in a standard webpage load”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-20

• “Because Minimax and our Llama 8b (via Groq) implementation are so efficient, we can offer "True Unlimited" tiers for pro users”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-15

• “With Groq speed (Llama 3 @ 800t/s), inference is finally fast enough to be in the system loop”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-30

• “Groq: Fastest inference (cost-optimized), best for batch operations”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-03

• “way cheaper (~$0.02-0.04/hr with Groq compared to $0.36/hr via OpenAI's API.)”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2025-06-25

• “unable to use groq with autogen despite following the groq documentation, keeps telling me to install groq”

  NEGATIVE · integration · Reddit · 2025-04-27