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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/groq.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick BlockRun.AI for schema \u0026 documentation (+11), payments \u0026 pricing (+60), maintenance \u0026 community (+13).\n\nPick GroqCloud for reliability (+45), agent ergonomics (+10), security \u0026 auth (+7), transparency \u0026 trust (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BlockRun.AI | GroqCloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 100 | GroqCloud +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 64 | BlockRun.AI +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 80 | GroqCloud +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 77 | GroqCloud +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 100 | 40 | BlockRun.AI +60 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 72 | BlockRun.AI +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 86 | GroqCloud +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72.5 · BB** | **75.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BlockRun.AI | GroqCloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | Model API |\n| Vendor | BlockRun, Inc. | Groq |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | yes | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Tools exposed | 19 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-21 |\n| Popularity | 5 stars, 679 PyPI/wk | 619 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BlockRun.AI.** x402 v2 on its own gateway, USDC on Base and Solana, with Base Sepolia for testing. The status page shows live checks only and keeps no incident history.\n\n**GroqCloud.** Free plan with no card, at 30 requests a minute and 1,000 a day on gpt-oss. Four model shutdown dates between 2026-07-17 and 2026-09-21, with no stated minimum notice.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### BlockRun.AI\n\n1. Fund a dedicated wallet with a small USDC balance. The balance is the spending cap\n2. Use `blockrun_wallet` delegate with `agent_limit` before handing a sub-agent the server\n3. On a 429, wait `Retry-After` and read `X-RateLimit-Source` to fail over to the same tier on another provider\n4. Call `blockrun_models` before hard-coding a model name, since models are removed without notice\n5. Use `mode:\"free\"` for drafts and classification, paid models for generation\n\n### GroqCloud\n\n1. Call `/models` at start-up. Four model ids stopped working this quarter\n2. Read `retry-after` on a 429 and the `x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens` header before the next call\n3. Free plan allows 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss, so keep prompts small or batch them\n4. Don't build on Qwen 3.8 27B. It's a preview and previews can go at short notice\n5. Treat a 498 as Flex capacity and retry later; 5xx responses aren't billed\n\n## Other comparisons with BlockRun.AI or GroqCloud\n\n- [Claude API vs BlockRun.AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-blockrun-ai.md)\n- [Claude API vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-groq.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [DeepSeek API vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-groq.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-groq.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-openrouter.md)\n",
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