SambaNova review

Input pricing starts at $0.22 to $3 and output pricing at $0.59 to $4.50, both quoted in USD. Compare those entry points with the €0.07 and €0.23 site medians to see whether the ranges sit near the floor of the wider market for hosted models.

Yes, the API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing client code can point at it with an endpoint and model change rather than a rewrite. Model names come from MiniMax M2.7, DeepSeek V3.1 and DeepSeek V3.2, and entry input pricing starts at $0.22 to $3 on a self-run stack.

The published list is MiniMax M2.7, DeepSeek V3.1 and DeepSeek V3.2. It is a short, fixed set that mixes open-weight and vendor models, and SambaNova serves them itself on its own systems rather than routing to third parties, which keeps the catalogue narrow and the bill easy to read.

The platform runs on SambaRack systems, listed as SambaRack SN40 16 and SambaRack SN50. Because the same in-house hardware serves the API, the model list is limited to what that stack hosts, which is the trade-off against a multi-provider gateway where the catalogue follows the providers behind it.

Support runs on help centre and community. Phone and live chat are not among those channels, so production incidents fall to self-serve answers in the help centre and the community. Teams with routine questions get quick help; anything time-sensitive is a harder fit.

The published safety and compliance set is FCC Part 15, ISED CAN ICES 3 (A) / NMB 3 (A) and RoHS 2011/65/EU, covering United States, Canadian, EU, Japanese and South Korean requirements. The company behind the service is SambaNova, Inc., a US company headquartered in the United States and founded in 2017, with the platform running on SambaRack SN40 16 and SambaRack SN50.

On input pricing it ranks 56 of 71 brands listed on input entry price, and on output pricing it ranks 53 of 70. Both sit in the middle of the field rather than at the price floor, so coverage carries the pitch.