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Groq
L0 · Third-country operatorgroqUnited StatesNorth America
Groq, a US company, serves open-weight models on its own LPU chips through GroqCloud, an OpenAI-compatible API built for high output speed. It offers gpt-oss models and Whisper speech-to-text at low prices.
Compliance posture · Stav's assessment
Jurisdiction
US · United States
Data residency
GLOBAL
CLOUD Act / FISA 702
Exposed
Stav sovereignty level
Stav's assessment
Five dimensions
Serving residency
Poor
Legal exposure
Poor
Serving retention
Adequate
Security posture
Weak
Contractual posture
Adequate
Bands only. The scores and Stav's notes per dimension are read in the workspace.
Customers only
The full assessment
Stav's narrative, every risk item with its source, the safeguards that offset them and the privacy-policy issues found: the part of the page a procurement review runs on.
Stav's narrative · 5 risk items · 8 safeguards · 2 privacy-policy issues · DPA, sub-processor list, terms, privacy policy — sign in to read them.
Traffic through Stav is covered by Stav's customer DPA, which lists Stav's sub-processors.
Stav's serving-side assessment, compiled from the provider's published documentation and Stav's operational review. Last reviewed 17 Oct 2026. An assessment, not a guarantee or regulatory determination. Confirm against the provider's own documentation before contracting.
Sovereignty ladder · how the level was reached
L0Third-country operatorIndicativeregistry 4.1
This level applies to traffic routed through Stav.
Groq is at L0. L1 is blocked because retained data is stored in US Google Cloud buckets whatever the inference region, and the US CLOUD Act applies to the whole group. Its Helsinki site makes EU infrastructure partial.
3 criteria from L1: Customer data in the Union, Infrastructure in the Union, No coerced vulnerability silence.
Stav's own assessment against criterion registry 4.1. Indicative, not an official recognition, which only a national authority can confer. Criteria follow the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act and are expected to change. “Union” reads as EU/EEA at every rung. CADA itself still says “in the Union”: until the Act is incorporated into the EEA Agreement, a Norwegian, Icelandic or Liechtenstein route does not evidence formal Union assurance for an EU public-sector buyer. UK and Swiss providers are capped at L1.
Verified 17 Oct 2026About the ladder →Certifications & legal documents · the provider's own facts
SOC 2 Type II
GroqCloud (2025 report and 2024 report listed; reports gated behind access request) · Claimed by the provider · verified 24 Sept 2026
“Claimed by the provider” means the provider states the certification. Stav has not seen the certificate or report.
Terms of servicepublished
Privacy policypublished
Data processing agreement (DPA)published
Sub-processor listpublished
Links to every document and certificate — 4 legal documents, 1 certification source
Compiled by Stav from the provider's published documentation. Last verified 17 Oct 2026. Reflects what the provider states, not a Stav guarantee or regulatory determination. Confirm against the provider's own pages before contracting.
Endpoints served · 1
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | TTFT | Tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-120b | €0.13 | €0.54 | 0.13 s | 476 |