Key features
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
- Custom LPU inference chips
- Ultra-low latency inference
- Fastest tokens-per-second performance
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Free tier for experimentation
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Updated March 10, 2026
Groq builds custom AI inference chips (Language Processing Units / LPUs) designed for extremely fast token generation. Groq's cloud platform offers the fastest inference speeds in the market, generating hundreds of tokens per second for models like Llama and Mixtral. The company's hardware architecture eliminates the memory bandwidth bottleneck that limits GPU-based inference, making it ideal for real-time and latency-sensitive AI applications.
AI-native proxy and data plane for agentic applications
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
PlanoWhat each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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How Groq's and Plano's models score on public benchmarks, and their live API status.
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