Groq LPU
SRAM-based language processing units sold as a token-priced inference cloud.
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Groq LPU vs Cerebras WSE-3
Groq LPU (Groq) and Cerebras WSE-3 (Cerebras) both sit in Chips & Compute. Cerebras WSE-3 shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Groq LPU Groq | Cerebras WSE-3 Cerebras |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | LPU | WSE-3 |
| Entry cost | Pricing not published. Contact sales or check account console for usage-based rates. | Free tier / developer tier pricing available (contact/partner integrations) |
| Pricing tiers | GroqCloud Console Free Tier / Pay-As-You-Go free | Developer Tier free |
| Model stack | canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi · canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english · kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · Llama / Kimi / GPT-OSS · Llama 3.1 8B Instant · Llama 3.3 70B Versatile · LPU v2 · meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct · meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct · minimax-m2.5 · minimax/minimax-m2.5 · minimaxai/minimax-m2.5 · moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · openai/gpt-oss-120b · openai/gpt-oss-20b · openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · Orpheus English · orpheus-arabic-saudi · orpheus-v1-english · Qwen 3.6 27B · qwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · Whisper V3 Large · whisper-large-v3 | Codex-Spark · Gemma · Gemma-4-31B · GLM-4.7 · GPT 5.6 Sol · GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultrafast · Kimi K2.6 · Llama · Llama / Qwen / GPT-OSS · Qwen · WSE-3 |
| Context window | 131k | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 4 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | deterministic latency, OpenAI-compatible API, open-model catalogue, batch API, Fast LLM inference, OpenAI Compatibility, Prompt Caching, Speech to Text | wafer-scale engine, record token/s on open models, CS-3 systems, training clusters, Wafer-scale AI inference, Cerebras PyTorch, ModelZoo, Low-level SDK |
Cerebras WSE-3
Single-wafer accelerators delivering the fastest published open-model token rates.
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