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Baseten vs Groq pricing

Verified 2026-10-24 (1 day ago)Source: Baseten: www.baseten.co/pricing, Groq: console.groq.com/docs/modelsVerified shows the older of the two.

Monthly cost at three volumes

Monthly cost of Baseten and Groq at three volumes and at your own
VolumeBasetenGroq
small1M input, 200K output$0.182 / moDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731$0.036 / moLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M
growing50M input, 10M output$9.10 / moDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731$1.80 / moLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M
scale1B input, 200M output$182 / moDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731$36 / moLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M
your volumeset above$9.10 / moDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731$1.80 / moLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M

Each cell is the cheapest feasible plan, or the chosen model, at that volume, from the shared Overage cost function. "Cheapest model" only considers models with both an input and an output price listed. Volumes are example scenarios you can edit.

Cheapest model per service, USD per 1M tokens

Cheapest priced model of each service
ServiceCheapest modelInputOutputModels listed
BasetenGPT OSS 120B$0.10$0.5016
GroqLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M$0.03$0.036

Every model

Every model of both services, USD per 1M tokens
ModelServiceInputOutput
GPT OSS 120BBaseten$0.10$0.50
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Baseten$0.13$0.26
GLM-5.3-FlashBaseten$0.15$0.50
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLBaseten$0.20$0.50
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Baseten$0.30$1.20
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashBaseten$0.30$1.20
BeamBaseten$0.40$1.20
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash FastBaseten$0.60$2.40
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 UltraBaseten$0.60$2.40
Muse Spark OpenBaseten$1.25$4.25
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Baseten$1.32$3.96
GLM-5.3Baseten$1.40$4.40
GLM-5.2Baseten$1.40$4.40
GLM-5.3 FastBaseten$2.10$6.60
GLM-5.2 FastBaseten$2.10$6.60
Kimi K3Baseten$3$15
Llama Prompt Guard 2 22MGroq$0.03$0.03
Prompt Guard 2 86MGroq$0.04$0.04
GPT OSS 20BGroq$0.075$0.30
Safety GPT OSS 20BGroq$0.075$0.30
GPT OSS 120BGroq$0.15$0.60
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27BGroq$0.80$4

Models are compared by name and price, never by position. Pick one model per service, or "Cheapest model", in the cost table above.

Tiers, aligned by position

Tiers of Baseten and Groq aligned by position: free, entry, mid, top
PositionBasetenGroq
Free$0 / moBasicno tier
EntryContact salesProno tier
Midno tierno tier
TopContact salesEnterpriseno tier

Tightest rate limit

Tightest documented rate limit of each service
MeasureBasetenGroq
Tightest limitunlisted100 api requests per minuteLlama Prompt Guard 2 22M tier

Changes in the last 90 days

No changes recorded.

No change detected for either service in the last 90 days.