# Groq: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 2 categories by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/groq

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [LLM gateways and observability](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/llm-gateways-and-observability/index.md) | 0% | 74 | 0% | 1 |
| [ML platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/ml-platforms/index.md) | 0% | 53 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Hosted Models / APIs: Groq, Together AI, or DeepInfra" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, ML platforms)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## In its own words

What Groq's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: the premier neocloud for fast inference (https://groq.com/)
- For: developers (https://groq.com/)
- Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA
- Hosting: US-1 — Liberty Lake, USA, US-2 — St Paul, USA, US-3 — Dallas, USA, US-4 — Houston, USA, CA-1 — Kamloops, Canada, CA-2 — Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada, CA-3 — Calgary, Canada, EU-1 — Vantaa, Finland

## What it publishes

Every page groq.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 226 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 15 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-24
- template or tool: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 25 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-17
- Recent: 2026-08-24 blog: Groq among the first to bring nvidia groq 3 lpx and vera rubin nvl72 to market https://groq.com/blog/groq-among-the-first-to-bring-nvidia-groq-3-lpx-and-vera-rubin-nvl72-to-market
- Recent: 2026-08-17 news or press: Groq closes usd350 million series a building the world s leading ai inference cloud https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-closes-usd350-million-series-a-building-the-world-s-leading-ai-inference-cloud
- Recent: 2026-08-12 news or press: Groq becomes an nvidia cloud partner https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-becomes-an-nvidia-cloud-partner
- Recent: 2026-06-22 news or press: Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-raises-usd650m-to-scale-its-ai-inference-cloud-business
- Recent: 2026-02-16 blog: Groqcloud expanding to meet demand https://groq.com/blog/groqcloud-expanding-to-meet-demand
- Recent: 2025-12-24 news or press: Groq and nvidia enter non exclusive inference technology licensing agreement to accelerate ai inference at global scale https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.