Fireworks AI vs Groq
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Fireworks AI
Production inference platform for open-weights LLMs
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Groq
Ultra-fast open-weight model inference on custom LPU silicon
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Forever free: 14,400 requests/day, 30 RPM, 6,000 TPM, no credit card. Open-weight model access (Llama, Gemma, Mixtral, Qwen, DeepSeek Distill, Whisper). Limits apply at the org level. |
| Paid from | — | Llama 3.1 8B $0.05/$0.08; Llama 3.3 70B $0.59/$0.79 per 1M in/out tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~3M developers/teams on GroqCloud (mid-2026); ~75% of Fortune 100 hold accounts |
| Founded | 2022 | 2016 |
| Maker | — | Groq, Inc. (independent; Nvidia acquired most chip assets/IP/leadership in a ~$20B Dec 2025 deal, but GroqCloud was excluded and stays with independent Groq) |
| Verdict | Fireworks AI is a high-performance inference platform for running open-weight LLMs and multimodal models at low latency and competitive per-token cost, with fine-tuning, function calling, JSON mode and an OpenAI-compatib... |
Groq is among the fastest options for open-weight model inference — if raw tokens-per-second throughput is your primary requirement, few providers beat it at this price point (independent benchmarks put Llama 3.3 70B at... |
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