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Groq vs Anthropic API

Fastest LLM inference — LPU-powered (300-1000+ tokens/sec)
vs. API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning

Groq website ↗Anthropic website ↗

Pricing tiers

Groq

Free Tier
Generous free RPM / TPM by model. Great for dev + small apps.
Free
On-Demand (paid)
Pay-as-you-go per token. OpenAI-compatible API, no infrastructure to manage.
$0 base (usage-based)
Developer Tier
Higher rate limits for production apps.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated capacity, SLA, on-prem option.
Custom
Groq website ↗

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free-tier on Groq vs opus-4-7 on Anthropic API.

MetricGroqAnthropic API
discount batch—50 % off

Features

Groq · 7 features

  • Audio Transcription — Whisper endpoint.
  • Batch API — 50% discount.
  • Chat Completions (OpenAI-compat) — Standard /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
  • Function Calling
  • JSON Mode — Enforce JSON output format.
  • Prompt Caching — 50% discount on cached input.
  • Streaming — SSE streaming for chat.

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Developer interfaces

    KindGroqAnthropic API
    CLI—Claude Code CLI
    SDKgroq-python, groq-sdk (Node)Go SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)
    RESTGroq API (OpenAI-compat)AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)
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