Groq: Achieves unmatched inference speed using custom LPU hardware, but supports a more restricted selection of open models. Chutes records 250,187 monthly visits with -15.2% month-over-month growth and Paid pricing. Groq records 3,987,936 monthly visits with +10% growth and Paid pricing.
Serverless, decentralized inference for open-source AI models
Ultra-fast AI inference on the LPU and LPX platform
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | chutes.ai | groq.com |
| Pricing Model | Paid | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 250.19K (250,187) | 3.99M (3,987,936) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -44.93K (-15.2%) | +362.74K (+10%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (58.1%) | 🇮🇳 India (19.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 187.04K | 1.7M |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Serverless, decentralized inference for open-source AI models
Drop-in compatibility means you change the base URL and key, and your existing OpenAI-style SDK code keeps working.
Run LLMs, image, video, speech, music, embedding, and moderation models, or bring your own code and fintune-style workloads.
Models are held permanently warm, so production traffic does not wait for a container to spin up.
Selected models run inside trusted execution environments for private, isolated inference.
Ultra-fast AI inference on the LPU and LPX platform
Custom accelerators designed specifically for inference rather than training, tuned for very low latency.
Hosted access to popular open models including Llama, Mixtral, Gemma, and Whisper speech models.
An API broadly compatible with common OpenAI-style request formats for quick integration.
Automatic speech recognition with Whisper plus text-to-speech capabilities for voice applications.
SpecialistHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
SpecialistHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
SpecialistProprietary frontier models with powerful reasoning and multimodal features, but lacking open-weight model hosting and custom inference speeds.
SpecialistProprietary frontier models with powerful reasoning and multimodal features, but lacking open-weight model hosting and custom inference speeds.
SpecialistGoogle's rapid prototyping IDE and developer API workbench for building multimodal applications with Gemini models.
SpecialistGoogle's rapid prototyping IDE and developer API workbench for building multimodal applications with Gemini models.
Unified API gateway aggregating hundreds of models across providers, but acting as a router rather than direct hardware host.
Unified API gateway aggregating hundreds of models across providers, but acting as a router rather than direct hardware host.
Free / Open-sourceRuns open-weight models locally on your own machine instead of providing a cloud-based serverless inference API.
Free / Open-sourceRuns open-weight models locally on your own machine instead of providing a cloud-based serverless inference API.
SpecialistSpecializes in high-speed serverless inference for generative media models rather than general text LLMs.
SpecialistSpecializes in high-speed serverless inference for generative media models rather than general text LLMs.
Robust cloud platform for open-source model inference, offering extensive fine-tuning support but slightly slower raw speeds.
Robust cloud platform for open-source model inference, offering extensive fine-tuning support but slightly slower raw speeds.
Excels at running and fine-tuning diverse machine learning models via API, but uses a distinct serverless architecture.
Excels at running and fine-tuning diverse machine learning models via API, but uses a distinct serverless architecture.
Free / Open-sourceFocuses on memory-efficient model fine-tuning and local execution rather than a hosted decentralized inference cloud.
Free / Open-sourceFocuses on memory-efficient model fine-tuning and local execution rather than a hosted decentralized inference cloud.
Wafer-scale hardware cloud delivering ultra-fast token generation speeds comparable to Groq, but supporting a more specialized model catalog.
Wafer-scale hardware cloud delivering ultra-fast token generation speeds comparable to Groq, but supporting a more specialized model catalog.
High-throughput serverless inference for open models, featuring excellent speed and fine-tuning capabilities with broad API compatibility.
Free / Open-sourceActs as an open-source proxy gateway to unify multiple providers, requiring you to bring your own backend compute.
