- Deployment
- hosted
- Hq Country
- United States
- Hq City
- Mountain View
- Ownership
- private
- Founded
- 2016
- Training Default
- never
- Residency Options
- global fleet (US, Canada, Finland, Saudi Arabia), no customer-selectable residency published
- Gov Access Exposure
- us-cloud-act
- Eu Ai Act Role
- deployer
- Certs
- SOC 2 Type II
- DPA available
- yes
- Zero Retention Available
- Yes
- Retention Default
- Groq does not access, use, store or retain Inputs or Outputs except as necessary to provide the service, ensure reliable operation, or confirm AUP compliance.
- Retention Exceptions
- Zero Data Retention is self-serve for every customer — an org admin enables it in Console Data Controls, globally or per feature — which removes the reliability and abuse-monitoring exception.
- Subprocessors
- Stytch, Google Cloud Platform, Stripe, Oracle NetSuite
- Subprocessor Count
- 4
- Transfer Mechanism
- sccs
- Eu Procurement Ready
- conditional
- Eu Procurement Reason
- Contractually strong: the services agreement states Groq is not permitted to use Inputs or Outputs for training or fine-tuning, ZDR is self-serve rather than an enterprise upsell, and the DPA incorporates the 2021 EU SCCs with Groq UK Limited as the contracting entity for EEA and Swiss customers. Groq operates a Helsinki data centre but publishes no customer-selectable data residency, so EU processing cannot be guaranteed.
- Training Claim Basis
- stated
- Training Confidence
- high
- Residency Claim Basis
- inferred
- Residency Confidence
- medium
- Retention Claim Basis
- stated
- Retention Confidence
- high
- Subprocessors Claim Basis
- stated
- Subprocessors Confidence
- high
- Residency Class
- non-eu-only
- Portability / Exit Path
- serves-open-models
- Subprocessor Jurisdiction
- non-eu
- Underlying model providers
- Meta (Llama), OpenAI (gpt-oss), Qwen, Moonshot AI (Kimi), Groq (Whisper hosting)
