Groq
GroqCloud API serving OpenAI's open Whisper large-v3 and large-v3-turbo models on Groq LPUs, billed per audio hour.
Whisper large-v3 costs $0.111/hour, and large-v3-turbo is $0.04/hour. Groq reports speeds of roughly 189 and 216 times real-time respectively; measure your own upload and processing times. Every request has a 10-second billing minimum. There is no streaming endpoint or built-in diarization, and we found no documented self-serve EU residency option.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- groq.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Audio hour |
|---|
| $0.111 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included audio hours / month
- 0
- Audio hour
- $0.111
whisper-large-v3 $0.111/hour (10.3% WER per Groq, ~189x real-time); whisper-large-v3-turbo $0.04/hour (12% WER, ~216x real-time). Minimum billed length is 10 seconds per request, so many very short clips cost more than their duration suggests. No streaming endpoint or built-in diarization. No self-serve EU data residency option documented; customer DPA published at console.groq.com/docs/legal.
Managed alternatives
At 1,000 audio hours / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Groq: $1,332/yr estimated.
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Self-hosted options
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