Groq LPU

📖 What is Groq LPU?

Groq is an AI hardware and cloud inference company that utilizes custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) chips to run open LLMs (Llama 3, DeepSeek) at blazing speeds (500+ tokens/second).

💡 Why It Matters

Groq shattered AI inference latency records, enabling real-time voice and conversational search applications.

🎯 Workplace Use Cases

• Deploying real-time voice and chat applications requiring near-instant response latency
• Running high-throughput API inference for open-source models at low cost
• Powering real-time streaming LLM applications

🚀 How to Use It

Get an API key at groq.com, replace your OpenAI base URL with Groq's endpoint in your code, and run instant inference.

✨ Key Features

• Ultra-fast 500+ tokens/second LLM generation speed
• Custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chip architecture
• OpenAI-compatible REST API for easy drop-in replacement

💳 Pricing & Plans

Free Tier: Free Developer tier with generous rate limits for testing.

Plan	Price	Notes
Pay-As-You-Go API	~$0.05-$0.59 / 1M tokens	Charged per million tokens depending on model size.