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Cached input half price on gpt-oss only, batch half price (https://groq.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "from $0.075 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 619, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://console.groq.com/docs", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://console.groq.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.fast", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "fast", "free-tier", "no-card", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 44, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 40, "reliability": 100, "schema": 64, "security": 77, "transparency": 85 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Many small, latency-sensitive calls on open-weight models, routing, extraction and classification, and agents that need to start free.", "strengths": [ "Free plan with no card, at 30 requests a minute and 1,000 a day on gpt-oss", "Per-model limits published, `x-ratelimit-*` headers on every response and `retry-after` on 429", "API keys scoped to a project, with per-project request limits, model permissions and request logs", "No retention by default and zero retention as a self-serve setting, and 5xx errors aren't charged", "Strict structured outputs, a half-price Batch API and a 99.9% SLA on the Performance Tier" ], "weaknesses": [ "Four model shutdown dates between 2026-07-17 and 2026-09-21, with no stated minimum notice", "131,072-token context on every self-serve model", "No OpenAPI document, and the SDK metadata carries no spec URL", "Cached input is half price on the three gpt-oss models only", "The deprecations page still names qwen/qwen3.6-27b as a Llama 3.3 70B replacement, and that model shut down on 2026-09-14" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `/models` at start-up. Four model ids stopped working this quarter", "Read `retry-after` on a 429 and the `x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens` header before the next call", "Free plan allows 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss, so keep prompts small or batch them", "Don't build on Qwen 3.8 27B. It's a preview and previews can go at short notice", "Treat a 498 as Flex capacity and retry later; 5xx responses aren't billed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 40, "reliability": 100, "schema": 64, "security": 77, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install groq # or: npm i groq-sdk", "http": "curl https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GROQ_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"openai/gpt-oss-120b\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/groq" }, "sameCompany": [ "groq-speech-to-text" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Groq LLC", "domain": "groq.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-07-22", "domainNote": "groq.com was registered in 2007, before Groq existed. Customers in the EEA contract with Groq UK Limited.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/services-agreement", "privacy": "https://groq.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://groqstatus.com", "changelog": "https://console.groq.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.json", "live": { "slug": "groq", "probe": { "target": "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:10.583504553Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 194, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 181, "p95ms24h": 241, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 3412, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://groqstatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:06:02.801974954Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "groq/groq-python", "version": "v1.7.0", "released": "2026-08-26", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:57:00.280806328Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "groq-sdk", "version": "1.6.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:57:00.224157819Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "groq", "version": "1.7.0", "released": "2026-08-26", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:57:00.108650314Z" } ], "githubStars": 621, "npmWeekly": 884716, "pypiWeekly": 4040988, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://groq.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:10.425828811Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://console.groq.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:06.351064928Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "groq.com", "registered": "2007-07-22", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/groq.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:20.535748109Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:39.832959533Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ac2cb86ef05a" }, { "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:34:20.199537167Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "396a91396e58" }, { "url": "https://groq.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:57.403860983Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:57.403860983Z", "fingerprint": "5d2ffa871aea" }, { "url": "https://groq.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:46.366514564Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "05dc8da7bc78" }, { "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/services-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:44.104843177Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a0b93cf713d4" } ], "models": { "openai/gpt-oss-120b": { "openrouterId": "openai/gpt-oss-120b", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "text" ], "promptCaching": false, "contextTokens": 131072, "maxOutput": 117964, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "openai/gpt-oss-20b": { "openrouterId": "openai/gpt-oss-20b", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 131072, "maxOutput": 32768, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "qwen/qwen3.8-27b": { "openrouterId": "qwen/qwen3.8-27b", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "image", "text", "video" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 1000000, "maxOutput": 131072, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:10.583504553Z" } }, "answer": "GroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "siliconflow", "name": "SiliconFlow", "vendor": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.siliconflow.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "SiliconFlow is a hosted inference API for open-weight models, covering chat, vision, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech. It answers OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style calls at api.siliconflow.com with a Bearer key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve Bearer key from the console at https://cloud.siliconflow.com/account/ak after a browser sign-up with a Google or GitHub account. The Anthropic-style `/messages` route also takes the key in `x-api-key`. No scopes, expiry or per-key limits are documented, and rate limits apply to the account, not the key. The error page says some models answer 403 until real-name authentication is done.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per token, image, video or byte of speech text, with $1 in free credits for a new account. Whether a card is needed to claim the credit was not established. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 in, $0.003 cached and $0.60 out per 1M tokens. The FAQ says monthly spending limits can be set in the dashboard (https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "from $0.15 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/userguide/quickstart", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/userguide/rate-limits/rate-limit-and-upgradation", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "embed.text", "rerank", "image.generate", "video.generate", "speech.tts", "speech.stt" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "free-credit", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "singapore" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 848, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.", "bestFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.", "strengths": [ "Per-token, per-image and per-video prices are public for every listed model, such as DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at $0.15 in and $0.60 out per 1M tokens", "One Bearer key reaches 22 operations in a public OpenAPI 3.0 file, with OpenAI-style `/chat/completions` and Anthropic-style `/messages`", "`llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page, in English and Chinese", "Rate limits are published by spend tier, from 1,000 requests and 40,000 tokens a minute at L0 to 10,000 and 2,000,000 at L5", "The terms say SiliconFlow will not access Interaction Data, has no obligation to store it, and uses it only to supply the service" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment", "Release notes stop at 11 June 2026. Six notices from December 2025 to June 2026 give a removal date equal to the notice date", "The Terms of Use of 9 September 2026 forbid use for any commercial purposes, scraping tools and benchmarking. This matters before any probe is run", "The OpenAPI model list and the function calling guide name models already removed, and omit every model added since July 2026", "No security.txt, disclosure policy, certification, DPA or sub-processor list was found, and no official SDK is published" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token", "Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models", "Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models", "Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length", "Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install --upgrade openai", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.siliconflow.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n --header 'authorization: Bearer $SILICONFLOW_API_KEY' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}],\"max_tokens\":128}'", "claudeCode": "export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=\"https://api.siliconflow.com/\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_MODEL=\"your-preferred-model\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=\"sk-your-api-key-here\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/siliconflow" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Z-Image-Turbo, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.005 }, { "item": "FLUX.1-dev, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.014 }, { "item": "FLUX 1.1 [pro], one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Wan2.2-T2V-A14B, one video", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.29, "note": "Priced per video generated" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "domain": "siliconflow.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-02-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use, updated 9 September 2026, name SILICONFLOW LABS PTE. LTD., apply Singapore law and set SIAC arbitration in Singapore. They govern the platform in its web, API and mobile versions, and no separate API agreement was found.", "The Privacy Policy, updated 9 September 2026, names the same entity and cites Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012. It keeps square brackets around several values, such as [Stripe] and [Google and GitHub].", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs index or the pages read.", "https://www.siliconflow.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404.", "RDAP for siliconflow.com gives a registration date of 2019-02-14.", "The API answers at api.siliconflow.com, the docs at docs.siliconflow.com and the console at cloud.siliconflow.com. The terms point users in mainland China to siliconflow.cn.", "No SLA, DPA or sub-processor list was found." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.json", "live": { "slug": "siliconflow", "probe": { "target": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:24.980509562Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 261, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 383, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:22.595479943Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "020d6d5c5cb2" }, { "url": "https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:54:15.050158864Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "597402093b57" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.377821725Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d7eb9964dc83" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.660352373Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "299aa0be9f28" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:24.980509562Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Groq", "b": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1", "b": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "b": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-21", "b": "2026-09-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-06-22", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-11-12", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "619 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "GroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, GroqCloud or SiliconFlow?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do GroqCloud and SiliconFlow need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. GroqCloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call GroqCloud and SiliconFlow without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 100 against 33", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 60", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 47", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 85 against 51" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Many small, latency-sensitive calls on open-weight models, routing, extraction and classification, and agents that need to start free.", "slug": "groq", "watchFor": "Four model shutdown dates between 2026-07-17 and 2026-09-21, with no stated minimum notice" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low 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Both do llm inference.", "verdicts": { "groq": "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.", "siliconflow": "Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow.min.md" }, "markdown": "GroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do llm inference.\n\n- GroqCloud: grade BB, 75.6/100, rank #44 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/groq.json\n- SiliconFlow: grade D, 46.7/100, rank #848 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 136 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### GroqCloud (BB)\n\nGood for: Many small, latency-sensitive calls on open-weight models, routing, extraction and classification, and agents that need to start free.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 100 against 33\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 47\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 85 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Four model shutdown dates between 2026-07-17 and 2026-09-21, with no stated minimum notice\n\n### SiliconFlow (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GroqCloud | SiliconFlow | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 100 | 33 | GroqCloud +67 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 65 | SiliconFlow +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 60 | GroqCloud +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 39 | GroqCloud +38 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | GroqCloud +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 47 | GroqCloud +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 51 | GroqCloud +34 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.6 · BB** | **46.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GroqCloud | SiliconFlow |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Groq | SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` | `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-06-22 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-12 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 619 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**SiliconFlow.** Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.\n\n## Before you call either\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### SiliconFlow\n\n1. Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token\n2. Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models\n3. Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models\n4. Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length\n5. Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GroqCloud or SiliconFlow?\n\nGroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do GroqCloud and SiliconFlow need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call GroqCloud and SiliconFlow without installing anything?\n\nYes. GroqCloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-siliconflow.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"groq\", \"b\": \"siliconflow\"}`. 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