Groq
Based on public pricing signals, xpay verified that Groq publishes per-million-token rates, audio per-hour rates, and built-in tool per-request prices on a public anonymous page with a free console signup. Enterprise-only models and on-prem are sales-led. xpay could not locate /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or an anonymous agent purchase path.
Unmatched Price Performance
Llama 3.3 70B $0.59/$0.79 per MTok; gpt-oss-120B $0.15/$0.60; Whisper $0.111/hr
$0
Self-serve
Contact sales
How Groq scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
22 / 25
Self-serve checkout
10 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
5 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
73 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Groq?
Discover price
https://groq.com/pricing/ — public tableSelect a plan
Self-serve console vs. enterprise contactPay per task
Per-token billing on every modelAvoid a sales call
Self-serve consoleAPI docs without auth
https://console.groq.com/docs publicEstimate cost upfront
Per-MTok rates plus current TPS for latency estimatesPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Groq could lift its score
Groq is already Verified at 88. Remaining 12 points: ship /.well-known/ai-pricing.json and add anonymous x402 purchase path.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Unmatched Price Performance |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | Free console PAYG signup |
| per_unit_price | Llama 3.3 70B $0.59/$0.79 per MTok; gpt-oss-120B $0.15/$0.60; Whisper $0.111/hr |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 2 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://console.groq.com/docs |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Groq
73
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)AI Inference
Unmatched Price Performance
3
Yes
Free console PAYG signup
Free
Llama 3.3 70B $0.59/$0.79 per MTok; gpt-oss-120B $0.15/$0.60; Whisper $0.111/hr
2 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03