Groq records 3,987,936 monthly visits with +10% month-over-month growth and Paid pricing. OrcaRouter records 975,300 monthly visits with -5.2% growth and Freemium pricing.
Ultra-fast AI inference on the LPU and LPX platform
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | groq.com | orcarouter.ai |
| Pricing Model | Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 3.99M (3,987,936) | 975.3K (975,300) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +362.74K (+10%) | -53.81K (-5.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇮🇳 India (19.3%) | 🇺🇸 United States (21.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.7M | 249.71K |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
Each prompt is graded and routed to the model that clears your quality bar, with configurable fallback chains that retry before a response starts.
Pay provider prices with $0 per-token added on pay-as-you-go and subscriptions, or bring your own provider keys and credits.
PII shielding, jailbreak and injection blocking, and per-call approval for tool and MCP actions run before you are billed.
Request logs, per-prompt receipts, routing and spend dashboards, and copy-as-cURL make every call auditable and attributable.
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.
Provides access to a massive catalog of frontier models with flexible routing, but lacks OrcaRouter's dedicated enterprise governance.
Provides access to a massive catalog of frontier models with flexible routing, but lacks OrcaRouter's dedicated enterprise governance.
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.
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.
One OpenAI-compatible API key for 500+ AI models
One OpenAI-compatible API key for 500+ AI models
Free / Open-sourceOffers an open-source proxy and SDK for unifying 100+ LLMs with failover, requiring self-hosting rather than a managed service.
Low-cost serverless inference cloud hosting hundreds of open-weight models, but lacking specialized custom hardware accelerators like LPUs.
Routes requests across frontier models with automatic failover and analytics, serving as a straightforward alternative API proxy.
Routes requests across frontier models with automatic failover and analytics, serving as a straightforward alternative API proxy.
AI cloud platform providing serverless model APIs and GPU instances, but with less emphasis on ultra-low-latency text generation.
