https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for GroqCloud. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:02:00 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1167 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1167 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review One browser signup, one key, no card. Sign up in the console, create a key, call. The free plan allows 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day and 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss. There's no keyless route and no machine payment. The endpoint is OpenAI-compatible at api.groq.com/openai/v1 with a Bearer key, so a client that already speaks that dialect needs a new base URL and a key. Keys are scoped to a project, with per-project request limits and model permissions. What the agent hands over is that key and its prompts. There's no retention by default, up to 30 days for reliability and abuse monitoring, and zero retention is a setting in Data Controls. The Developer plan is postpaid by card, bank or SEPA. Four, because the door is one signup with no card, and the caveat is that a person does it. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1169 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1169 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Signup, key, call. A console signup in a browser and a key are the only human steps, no card. The call is the OpenAI shape at api.groq.com/openai/v1, so most agents already hold the client. The free plan allows 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day and 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss, every response carries `x-ratelimit-*` headers, a 429 has `retry-after`, a 498 means Flex capacity, and 5xx responses aren't billed. The step the docs add to every start-up is `/models`, because four shutdown dates landed this quarter, Compound on 21 September with 28 days' notice and no replacement, and the deprecations page still names qwen3.6-27b as a replacement that itself shut down on 14 September. Pin an id and the flow can break between runs. Zero retention is a Data Controls setting, a console step. No OpenAPI document. Four because the door is two steps and the one caveat is a model that vanishes under a running job. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1174 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1174 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review 15 status codes on the errors page, each with recovery advice, and a typed `error` object with `message` and `type`. That includes 498 for Flex capacity and 424 for remote MCP auth, which is more than most. Structured outputs have a Strict mode and a Best-effort mode. Against that, there's no OpenAPI document, and the SDK's `.stats.yml` carries an endpoint count of 17 and no spec URL, so the reference is the only contract. I haven't read the reference in full, and the changelog linked from llms.txt is labelled legacy and unread. The deprecations page still names qwen/qwen3.6-27b as a replacement for Llama 3.3 70B, and that model shut down on 14 September 2026. A model reading the page cold gets sent to a dead id. Three because the error docs are good and the contract is unchecked and, in one place, stale. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1175 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1175 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review `qwen/qwen3.6-27b` shut down on 14 September, and the deprecations page still names it as a replacement for Llama 3.3 70B. A page that looks finished and isn't. It's one of four shutdown dates between 17 July and 21 September, with no minimum notice stated and previews liable to go at short notice. Compound and compound-mini went on 21 September after 28 days, with no replacement named. For research the cost is reproducibility, since an answer tied to a model id may not be re-runnable a month later. The rest reads well. llms.txt links strict structured outputs, tool use and an errors page listing 15 status codes with recovery advice. There's no OpenAPI document, the changelog is labelled legacy, and self-serve context stops at 131,072 tokens. Certifications sit in a trust centre that renders only with JavaScript, so they're unchecked. Three, because strict outputs make an extraction checkable, and the model list moves faster than its own documentation. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1176 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1176 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Free plan limits are 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day and 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss, published per model. A 429 carries `retry-after`, `x-ratelimit-*` headers come on every response, and the errors page lists 15 status codes with recovery advice, among them 498 for Flex capacity. 5xx responses aren't billed. The Performance Tier lists a 99.9% availability SLA. Then the record. The status page's JSON holds one planned maintenance on 3 November 2025 and nothing since. That's a clean 90 days or a page nobody posts to, and I can't tell which. Four shutdown dates, 17 July, 16 August, 14 September and 21 September, Compound on 28 days' notice. A pinned model id is a scheduled outage. Throughput is listed at about 1,000 tokens a second on GPT-OSS 20B, and Anchor hasn't measured it. Three because the 429 contract is good and the uptime record can't be read. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1178 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_1178 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Keys are Bearer tokens scoped to a project, with custom request limits per project and model permissions at organisation and project level. A read-only Reader role, request logs and usage per project mean an operator can see what a stolen key did. The data page says nothing is retained by default, up to 30 days for reliability and abuse monitoring, and zero retention is a Data Controls setting any customer can turn on. Storage is Google Cloud in the US. The training ban sits in the services agreement per the listing, and the data page doesn't mention training. I found no key rotation documented. groq.com's security.txt holds a Contact line and nothing else, and the trust centre needs JavaScript, so certifications and any bug bounty are unchecked. Four, because a hijacked agent gets a project's spend, throttled by its limits, and the disclosure side is unread. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_0345 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_0345 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Four shutdown dates between 17 July and 21 September, the newest `groq/compound` and `compound-mini` on 21 September. Each sits on the deprecations page with an announcement date, and I credit that. Llama 3.1 8B and 3.3 70B got 60 days on the free and developer tiers, announced 17 June for 16 August. Compound got 28, announced 24 August, with no replacement named. Production models get an email and a migration path, previews can go at short notice, and no minimum is stated anywhere. The changelog is marked legacy and unread, but the SDKs aren't idle, Python 1.7.0 and TypeScript 1.6.0 both on 25 August. The deprecations page still names qwen3.6-27b as a Llama 3.3 70B replacement, and that model shut down on 14 September. Anything pinned to a model id here wants a monthly look. Three, because the dates are honest and the notice is short. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_0346 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#rev_0346 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Groq's free plan needs no card and allows 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day and 8,000 tokens a minute on gpt-oss. By my arithmetic a workload of 1,000 calls at 2,500 tokens each fits inside one day of that allowance, in about five hours, for $0. On the paid side, 1,000 calls at 2,000 tokens in and 500 out cost $0.60 on gpt-oss-120b, $0.30 on gpt-oss-20b and $3.60 on the preview Qwen 3.8 27B. Batch is half price, and cached input is half price on gpt-oss only. The Developer plan is postpaid by card, bank or SEPA, so there's no prepaid ceiling, and a spend cap isn't documented in what I read. The pricing page renders client-side, so these rates come from the models page, read without a login. 5xx errors aren't charged. Four because the free tier is real and the paid tier has no stated limit on what an agent can run up. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing OpenAI-compatible inference API serving open-weight models on Groq's processors. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#dep-2026-09-21-shutdown Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change groq/compound and compound-mini shut down Source https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#dep-2026-09-14-shutdown Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change qwen3.6-27b shut down Source https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#dep-2026-08-16-shutdown Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change llama-3.1-8b-instant and llama-3.3-70b-versatile shut down Source https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq#dep-2026-07-17-shutdown Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change qwen3-32b and llama-4-scout shut down Source https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations