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Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
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- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦Unified API for 100+ AI models
- ✦Intelligent request routing across models
- ✦AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
- ✦Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦400+ AI models via one unified API
- ✦Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
- ✦On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
- ✦Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible single key
- ✦SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Building applications that need failover across multiple LLM providers
- →Consolidating billing/access to many AI models under one API
- →Enterprises requiring guaranteed model output reliability
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply