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Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
Open-source platform to build, deploy and monitor agentic AI workflows and RAG apps, with cloud, self-host and enterprise options.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
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- ✦Serverless per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
- ✦On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
- ✦Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
- ✦Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
- ✦Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
- ✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
- ✦Sub-second container cold starts
- ✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
- ✦Inference, training and batch workloads
- ✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
- ✦Built-in logging and observability
- ✦Visual workflow studio for agents
- ✦RAG knowledge pipelines
- ✦Agent runtime with tools and memory
- ✦Marketplace of models and plugins
- ✦Publish as app, API or MCP tool
- ✦Logging, analytics and monitoring
- ✦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
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Building AI agents and chatbots
- →Creating RAG-based knowledge apps
- →Deploying LLM apps at enterprise scale
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference