Pick Cerebras if
developers who will burn a $5 credit to measure tokens/sec, then pay per 1M.
Read the Cerebras pageCerebras vs Groq
Our take
Pick Cerebras if developers who will burn a $5 credit to measure tokens/sec, then pay per 1M. Pick Groq if developers who will copy a model ID and a $/1M row from the Supported Models table. Skip Cerebras if people who want a local runtime (Ollama) or a multi-vendor router.
Groq
hosted inference API on GroqCloud
Best for
Cerebras Hit a very fast hosted model
Groq Fast token generation billed per 1M tokens
Free plan
Cerebras No free plan
Groq No free plan
Lowest paid
Cerebras GPT-OSS 120B $0.35
Groq Llama Prompt Guard 2 22M $0.03
Next step up
Cerebras Qwen 27B $0.99
Groq Whisper large-v3-turbo $0.04/hour
Coding agent
Cerebras Coding agent card
Groq
Runs where
Cerebras Hosted
Groq Hosted
Watch out
Cerebras $5 is a coupon, not a plan
Groq Rows move
Last checked
Cerebras 2026-10-21 · cerebras.ai/pricing
Groq 2026-10-22 · console.groq.com/docs/models
Which one, then?
Pick Groq if
developers who will copy a model ID and a $/1M row from the Supported Models table.
Read the Groq page