Groq vs Novita AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Groq is cheaper on 2 of 6 shared models (input or output price), Novita AI on 4.
Groq
Custom LPU silicon serving open models at hundreds of tokens/second: the speed king for latency-sensitive apps, with simple per-token pricing..
- Fastest tokens/sec in the market
- Simple pricing
- Generous free tier for prototyping
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Groq in/out | Novita AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.075 / $0.300 | $0.040 / $0.150 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.110 / $0.340 | $0.180 / $0.590 | Groq |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.050 / $0.250 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.200 / $0.600 | $0.270 / $0.850 | Groq |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.290 / $0.590 | $0.100 / $0.450 | Novita AI |
| Kimi K2 | $1.00 / $3.00 | $0.600 / $2.50 | Novita AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.