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SambaNova
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SambaNova
Enterprise LLM inference on dedicated AI chips.
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Best for
Best for enterprises who need frontier-class OSS models at frontier-class latency.
At a glance
- Pricing
- enterprise
- Setup time
- 2 weeks
- Learning curve
- steep
- Last verified
- 5/25/2026
What we love
- ✓Fastest inference for big OSS models
- ✓Skips GPU bottleneck
- ✓Real enterprise SLAs
Where it falls short
- −Enterprise contracts only
- −No frontier proprietary models
- −Niche custom hardware
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
Cloud API
Usage
per token
- ✓Hosted OSS models
Enterprise
Custom
annual
- ✓On-prem appliance
- ✓SLAs
Overview
SambaNova ships frontier open-source models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek, Qwen) on their custom RDU chips with ultra-fast inference. Aimed at enterprises who want OSS models with cloud-grade latency.
Key features
- ●Sub-100ms first-token latency
- ●Llama 3.1 405B hosted
- ●DeepSeek R1 hosted
- ●Enterprise SLA
- ●API + on-prem appliance
Best use cases
Latency-critical OSS RAG
Run Llama 3.1 405B for RAG with the latency users expect from frontier models.
On-prem AI inference appliance
Drop a SambaNova rack on-site for sovereign-data inference.
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