| Field | LlamaParse (LlamaCloud) | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota |
| What's free | Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (up to ~10,000 pages at the cheapest parse tier, as low as 1 credit/page) | Open-weight models (GPT-OSS, Qwen) plus Whisper, no credit card required |
| Rate limits | 5 concurrent jobs; 1 project; 5 indexes on the free plan | 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 | Credit-based (1,000 credits = $1.25); premium parse modes consume more credits per page. No card required. Document parsing for RAG (LlamaIndex). | 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 | allowed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | no | yeshttps://api.groq.com/openai/v1 |
| Modalities | ocr, text | 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 | www.llamaindex.ai/pricing | console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits |
| Last verified | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |