Groq low-latency routing

Groq AI router for fast OpenAI-compatible agents

Use Sage Router as the policy layer around Groq API routes. Keep GROQ_API_KEY under your custody, expose one OpenAI-compatible endpoint to agents, and fail over to other authorized local, cloud, or multimodal routes when a key, model, or provider path is unhealthy.

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Groq API key custody

Configure Groq as an authorized provider route using your own GROQ_API_KEY. Sage Router supports API-key mode; it does not grant unauthorized GroqCloud, Llama, or Mixtral access.

OpenAI-compatible setup

Point OpenAI SDKs, Codex, Cursor, Aider, Continue, OpenHands, and gateway-compatible clients at https://api.sagerouter.dev/v1 while the router chooses Groq, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama, NVIDIA NIM, Bedrock, or private routes by policy.

Low-latency Llama routing

Route fast chat, extraction, and agent loop tasks to customer-authorized Groq-hosted Llama or Mixtral models when they are healthy, while keeping a fallback chain for deeper reasoning, local, and multimodal workloads.

60-second Groq setup

export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.sagerouter.dev/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk_sage_your_generated_key
export GROQ_API_KEY=your_authorized_groq_key

curl "$OPENAI_BASE_URL/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sage-router/fast",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Use Groq if it is the fastest healthy authorized route"}]
  }'

Credential load balancing

Credential pools can distribute traffic across authorized Groq keys and fail over when one key is exhausted, revoked, rate-limited, or unhealthy.

429 failover

Retryable rate limits can move to another eligible Groq credential, OpenAI-compatible provider, local Ollama model, or private endpoint according to your policy.

Multimodal safeguards

Image, audio, video, and document inputs route only to capable models, so auto and agentic profiles do not send multimodal work to incompatible routes.

Provider authorization boundary

Sage Router sells routing, generated keys, quotas, account management, analytics, and reliability infrastructure. It does not include bundled Groq resale, does not bypass Groq terms, and does not grant unauthorized GroqCloud, Llama, or Mixtral access.

Next steps

Create an API key, copy the hosted quickstart, use the coding-agent setup, or estimate routing fit.