The policy prohibits Customers from exceeding published usage parameters or rate limits, and specifically prohibits circumventing those limits through multiple account registration or coordinated usage across multiple organizations.
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This provision establishes that rate limit and parameter compliance is a contractual obligation enforced across the account and organizational level, not just at the individual API request level, and that multi-account or multi-organization orchestration to circumvent limits constitutes a policy violation.
Under this clause, Customers who create multiple accounts or coordinate usage between organizations to exceed published rate limits or parameters violate the agreement regardless of whether each individual account operates within stated limits.
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Compare across platforms →"beyond published parameters, rate limits, or use limitations, including by registering multiple accounts or orchestrating usage between multiple organizationsExcerpt from Groq's Acceptable Use Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision is primarily a commercial and operational term rather than a regulatory compliance provision.
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This provision establishes that rate limit and parameter compliance is a contractual obligation enforced across the account and organizational level, not just at the individual API request level, and that multi-account or multi-organization orchestration to circumvent limits constitutes a policy violation.
Under this clause, Customers who create multiple accounts or coordinate usage between organizations to exceed published rate limits or parameters violate the agreement regardless of whether each individual account operates within stated limits.
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