| Field | AI Horde | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · perpetual | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota |
| What's free | Free crowdsourced text & image generation; anonymous API key '0000000000' (no registration), or register to earn kudos for priority | Open-weight models (GPT-OSS, Qwen) plus Whisper, no credit card required |
| Rate limits | Queue-based priority via kudos (no fixed quota); anonymous requests get lowest priority under load | Free plan examples: openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b and qwen/qwen3.8-27b: 30 RPM/1K RPD/8K TPM/200K TPD; Whisper models: 20 RPM/2K RPD/7.2K audio seconds/hour and 28.8K/day; limits vary by model |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | Community-powered volunteer network — model availability and speed vary with worker supply, so it is not a fixed-SLA service. No card, no phone. Kudos never expire and cannot be sold. | Limits apply at the organization level, not per API key. Phone verification required at signup |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not required | required |
| Commercial use | not confirmed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | no | yeshttps://api.groq.com/openai/v1 |
| Modalities | text, image | text, audio |
| Free models (sample) | no sample | openai/gpt-oss-120b openai/gpt-oss-20b qwen/qwen3.8-27b whisper-large-v3 whisper-large-v3-turbo |
| Official docs | aihorde.net/ | console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits |
| Last verified | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |