Moving from Groq Cloud to OpenAI API
A cost comparison and planning checklist. These are assessment steps, not vendor-specific migration instructions.
Groq Cloud
LPU Inference Engine delivering unmatched token output speeds.
$10.43 / month
Llama 3.3 70B (Groq)
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Standard input tokens: $5.90
- Output completion tokens: $1.58
- Cached prompt tokens: $2.95
- Industry-leading 250+ tokens per second inference speeds on dedicated LPU hardware.
- Context prompt caching discounts, vision inputs on this model.
OpenAI API
Industry-standard foundation models with automatic prompt caching and vision.
$3.08 / month
GPT-4o mini
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Standard input tokens: $1.50
- Output completion tokens: $1.20
- Cached prompt tokens: $0.38
- Automatic 50% prompt caching discount applies to prompts with 1,024+ identical leading tokens.
- Fine-tuning, Batch API discounts, audio/realtime APIs, and image generation.
Recurring cost difference
$88.20 lower over twelve months at unchanged usage.
Not calculated. Estimate migration labor, overlapping subscriptions, transfer charges and contract obligations before dividing those costs by any monthly savings.
What this comparison covers
Commercial API inference for generative language and reasoning models. Shared multi-tenant API endpoints, standard rate limits, and pay-as-you-go billing without committed use discounts or provisioned throughput. Fine-tuning, batch API discounts, embeddings, and audio generation are excluded.
Evaluating 2 products from 4 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Standard input tokens
- 10,000,000 tokens / month
- Output tokens
- 2,000,000 tokens / month
- Cached prompt tokens
- 5,000,000 tokens / month
Before you move
- This is a readiness assessment, not a verified vendor migration procedure.
- Use the source pricing and plan documentation: https://groq.com/pricing/
- Use the target pricing and plan documentation: https://openai.com/api/pricing/
- Obtain the account permissions, data-owner approvals and tested backups needed for your chosen transfer method.
Modeled recurring cost
Groq Cloud: $10.43/month
OpenAI API: $3.08/month
OpenAI API costs $7.35 less per month than Groq Cloud at this workload. This compares modeled charges, not overall product quality.
Requirements
Llama 3.3 70B (Groq)
GPT-4o mini
Evaluate task quality, context limits, output format, latency and data-handling requirements on representative prompts; token prices do not establish model equivalence.
Your migration readiness checklist
Check items as you review them. Progress is kept only while this page is open.
Questions before you decide
Does a lower monthly estimate mean the migration pays for itself?
Not calculated. Estimate migration labor, overlapping subscriptions, transfer charges and contract obligations before dividing those costs by any monthly savings.
Is this a guaranteed migration procedure?
No. This assessment identifies decisions to verify with official provider documentation. It does not establish interoperability, data portability, zero downtime or a rollback guarantee.