Groq vs Perspective

Groq runs open models such as Llama, Mixtral, and Gemma on its own LPU inference hardware, exposing them through a REST API that's a near drop-in replacement for the OpenAI chat completions endpoint. Pricing is pay-per-token and varies by model (roughly $0.05-$3 per million tokens), with a free API key available to get started and no separate infrastructure fee. The console also offers batch processing at a 50% discount and prompt-caching discounts for repeated context.

Perspective API, built by Google's Jigsaw team, scores text for toxicity, insults, threats, and related attributes using ML models trained on human-rated comments, returning probabilities from a JSON REST endpoint (commentanalyzer.googleapis.com). It's free and quota-gated rather than metered, but Google has announced the service will be shut down after 2026 and is only accepting quota-increase requests through February 2026. New integrations should plan for a different moderation provider before then, since Google has said it won't offer direct migration support.