Hasura vs Groq
Instant GraphQL + REST on your data sources — with permissions
vs. Fastest LLM inference — LPU-powered (300-1000+ tokens/sec)
Pricing tiers
Hasura
OSS (Community)
Free forever (Apache-2.0). Self-host GraphQL Engine v2.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
$0. 1 project. 60 req/min. Community support.
Free
Professional
$99/mo (starts). Usage-based compute + data pass-through. Production SLAs.
$99/mo
Advanced
Custom. Multi-region, dedicated, observability, SSO.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. On-prem / air-gap / advanced security.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Hasura vs free-tier on Groq.
| Metric | Hasura | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Hasura · 14 features
- Actions — Custom resolvers via HTTP.
- Data Connector Hub — Build connectors to any source.
- Event Triggers — DB changes → webhook.
- GraphQL API — Auto GraphQL over relational + NoSQL.
- Hasura DDN (v3) — Multi-source supergraph with OpenDD.
- JWT Auth — Pluggable JWT verification.
- Metadata Migrations — Git-versioned Hasura config.
- Permissions — Row + column + session-based.
- Query Caching — Edge caching with cache-control directive.
- Remote Schemas — Merge external GraphQL into supergraph.
- REST Endpoints — Turn any GraphQL op into REST.
- Scheduled Triggers — Cron + one-off webhook triggers.
- Subscriptions — Live queries via WS.
- Webhook Auth — Custom auth via webhook.
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.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Hasura | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | ddn CLI (v3), hasura CLI | — |
| SDK | — | groq-python, groq-sdk (Node) |
| REST | Hasura REST Endpoints, Metadata API | Groq API (OpenAI-compat) |
| GRAPHQL | Hasura GraphQL Engine | — |
| OTHER | Data Connectors, Hasura Console | — |
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