Groq vs Aster

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Groq compared with Aster
Detail	Groq	Aster
What it does	Premier neocloud for fast inference	Intelligent Auto Routing
Stage	Established	Growing
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Not given	usage-based
Pricing	Not given	aster-work: $0.40 input / $0.80 output per million tokens. aster-code: $0.80 input / $1.60 output per million tokens. No subscription or seat fees. Prepaid credits start at $5 with no expiry. Routing included in product rates.
Key features	GroqMetal: dedicated bare-metal infrastructure tuned for speed and reliability GroqCore: production-ready inference stack with no infrastructure expertise required GroqAssured: enterprise-grade governance, auditability, and control 256 LPUs per rack with 40 PB/s SRAM bandwidth 1,000 tokens per second per user throughput 128 GB on-chip SRAM per rack 315 PFLOPS of FP8 inference compute 13 globally distributed data centers across four continents	Task-aware model routing Curated model collection
What makes it different	Fast inference at scale without sacrificing affordability LPU pioneered technology integrated with NVIDIA GPUs Fully integrated platform combining infrastructure, inference, and control	Reinforcement learning router trained on real task data 97.5% lower token cost vs frontier models Same product name regardless of underlying model
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	85 no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	37	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	56	11
Referring domains (Majestic)	12552	23

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