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NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA inference

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LLM API

Groq

LPU inference

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Core Architectural Conflict

NVIDIA NIM vs Groq

Enterprise vs Ultra-Low Latency.

Latency
Data Freshness: Verified via Public Cloud APIs & Market Scraping | Refreshed Daily (UTC)Benchmark Testing Baseline: Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4, vLLM v0.6.x (PagedAttention v2, FlashAttention-3), BF16/FP8 weights.Methodology →

Technical Scorecard

Side-by-side infrastructure specs using live pricing data for H100-class hardware.

MetricNVIDIA NIMGroq
Network FabricNVIDIALPU
Storage ThroughputNIMSRAM
Egress Pricingtokentoken
SLA Guarantee99.9%99.99%
8-GPU 100h Cost$0$0

Live Pricing Comparison

Spot and reserved rates refreshed from provider APIs. Filtered to H100-class hardware.

ProviderGPU & VRAMInterconnectSpot RateOn-DemandMonthlyStatusAction
Vast.ai
Community
H100 SXM580GB HBM3
Llama 70B (FP8) ✅DeepSeek R1 (INT4 Multi-GPU) ✅Production vLLM Cluster ✅
NVLink 4.0 (900 GB/s)$1.89/hr
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Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceVast.ai
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
1.89 /hr
Methodology

Observed spot rate from public cloud APIs. On-demand calculated at 2.5× spot (conservative; actual range 1.8×–3.2×).

Assumptions & Parameters
  • range: 1.8×–3.2×
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$1.89 / hr$1,157 / moInstant
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Spheron
Bare Metal
H100 SXM580GB HBM3
Llama 70B (FP8) ✅DeepSeek R1 (INT4 Multi-GPU) ✅Production vLLM Cluster ✅
NVLink 4.0 (900 GB/s)$2.29/hr
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Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceSpheron
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
2.29 /hr
Methodology

Observed spot rate from public cloud APIs. On-demand calculated at 2.5× spot (conservative; actual range 1.8×–3.2×).

Assumptions & Parameters
  • range: 1.8×–3.2×
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$2.29 / hr$1,401 / moInstant
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RunPod
Cloud
H100 SXM580GB HBM3
Llama 70B (FP8) ✅DeepSeek R1 (INT4 Multi-GPU) ✅Production vLLM Cluster ✅
NVLink 4.0 (900 GB/s)$2.49/hr
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Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceRunPod
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
2.49 /hr
Methodology

Observed spot rate from public cloud APIs. On-demand calculated at 2.5× spot (conservative; actual range 1.8×–3.2×).

Assumptions & Parameters
  • range: 1.8×–3.2×
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$3.49 / hr$2,136 / moInstant
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Lambda Labs
Dedicated
H100 SXM580GB HBM3
Llama 70B (FP8) ✅DeepSeek R1 (INT4 Multi-GPU) ✅Production vLLM Cluster ✅
NVLink 4.0 (900 GB/s)$2.99/hr
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Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceLambda Labs
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
2.99 /hr
Methodology

Observed spot rate from public cloud APIs. On-demand calculated at 2.5× spot (conservative; actual range 1.8×–3.2×).

Assumptions & Parameters
  • range: 1.8×–3.2×
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$2.99 / hr$1,830 / moInstant
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Data Freshness: Public Cloud APIs & Market Scraping | Refreshed Daily (UTC)Benchmark Baseline: Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4, vLLM v0.6.x, PagedAttention v2, FlashAttention-3

When to Choose NVIDIA NIM

  • Enterprise

When to Choose Groq

  • Ultra-low latency

Technical Deep-Dive

Architecture

Triton vs LPU

Final Verdict

NVIDIA NIM vs Groq.

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