Pick Fireworks AI if
developers who will pick a library card and copy the Standard $/1M triple.
Read the Fireworks AI pageFireworks AI vs Groq
Our take
Pick Fireworks AI if developers who will pick a library card and copy the Standard $/1M triple. Pick Groq if developers who will copy a model ID and a $/1M row from the Supported Models table.
Fireworks AI
serverless (and dedicated-GPU) inference
Groq
hosted inference API on GroqCloud
Best for
Fireworks AI One HTTP call to an open model with a printed row
Groq Fast token generation billed per 1M tokens
Free plan
Fireworks AI No free plan
Groq No free plan
Lowest paid
Fireworks AI NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B $0.05
Groq Llama Prompt Guard 2 22M $0.03
Next step up
Fireworks AI GLM 5.3 Flash $0.15
Groq Whisper large-v3-turbo $0.04/hour
Runs where
Fireworks AI
Groq Hosted
Watch out
Fireworks AI You are billed per token (or per GPU hour)
Groq Rows move
Last checked
Fireworks AI 2026-10-22 · docs.fireworks.ai/serverless/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