What's free
Open-weight models (GPT-OSS, Qwen) plus Whisper, no credit card required
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- required
- Commercial use
- allowed
Free limits
| requests per minute | 30 |
|---|---|
| requests per day | 1,000 |
| tokens per day | 200,000 |
free plan, each of openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b and qwen/qwen3.8-27b; limits vary by model. Source: the provider's page, read 2026-10-08.
In the provider's words
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
The catch
Limits apply at the organization level, not per API key. Phone verification required at signup
Free models · sample
openai/gpt-oss-120bopenai/gpt-oss-20bqwen/qwen3.8-27bwhisper-large-v3whisper-large-v3-turboA sample of models reachable on the free tier — the live catalog changes. Pull the current set with GET https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/models.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-oss-120b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"openai/gpt-oss-120b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated free tier, rate limits
- 2026-08-02 Updated rate limits
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub