Groq — free plan, no card
Groq's free plan gives rate-limited API access, e.g. gpt-oss-120b at 30 requests/min and 1,000 requests/day.
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Access
- Instant
Limits30 RPM - 1,000 req/day - 200K tokens/day
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Who qualifies
Anyone with a Groq account
The catch
Limits are per organization and per model; the docs say exact limits are on your account's Limits page and there may be exceptions. Developer plan needs a payment method. Not suited to production. The docs table is labelled as base limits, so confirm yours.
What you get
- gpt-oss-120b / 20b and qwen3.8-27b: 30 RPM, 1K RPD, 8K TPM, 200K tokens/day
- Whisper large v3: 20 RPM, 2K RPD
- Upgrade to Developer plan for higher limits, Batch and Flex
At a glance
- Offer
- Free API: 1K req/day on gpt-oss
- Type
- Free tier
- Provider
- Groq
- Access
- Instant
- Eligibility
- Anyone with a Groq account
- Limits
- 30 RPM - 1,000 req/day - 200K tokens/day
- Deadline
- Rolling / no deadline given
- Last checked
- Sun, 25 Oct 2026
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