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SambaNova Cloud Compute

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cloud.sambanova.ai/plans · inference API · compute/sambanova-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	No free lane left. The Free plan now reads 'Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests'; the prior offer was USD 5 of free API credits with no card required, expiring after 30 days, and that grant was dropped on 2026-08-14. The rate-limit documentation still describes a 'Free Tier: Applied when there is no payment method linked with your account', which contradicts the plans page. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	card a payment method and purchased credits before the first request: the plans page reads "Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests", and the previous USD 5 no-card grant was dropped on 2026-08-14. The record does not name which payment methods are accepted, whether a card is required rather than another rail, any hold, debit or prepaid acceptance, or whether signup asks for an email or a phone. The rate-limit documentation still describes a "Free Tier: Applied when there is no payment method linked with your account", which contradicts the plans page
Limits	write-gated the free lane stops at the payment method, not at a quota: a call on an unfunded key returns 402 PAYMENT_METHOD_REQUIRED while /v1/models still answers 200, so a health check that reads the model list looks healthy while every completion is refused. source the free lane stops at the payment method, not at a quota: a call on an unfunded key returns 402 PAYMENT_METHOD_REQUIRED while /v1/models still answers 200, so a health check that reads the model list looks healthy while every completion is refused.
Binding	write-gated the free lane stops at the payment method, not at a quota: a call on an unfunded key returns 402 PAYMENT_METHOD_REQUIRED while /v1/models still answers 200, so a health check that reads the model list looks healthy while every completion is refused.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	nothing composes: needs a card before the first request.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A refutation shaped like the ones the corpus already carries for Fly.io and PlanetScale. Two independent signals agree (the vendor plans page and a dated change tracker), and the stale rate-limit doc is the trap: a session reading only docs.sambanova.ai would record a free tier that no longer exists. Absent from dossier/compute/ before this record. The 20M-tokens-a-day Developer Tier figure is recorded here only as what the docs claim, not as capacity the client has.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	cloud.sambanova.ai/plans	Free plan text: 'Start exploring SambaNova Cloud. Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests', quoted
2026-08-22	www.usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/sambanova-2026-08-14	the USD 5 no-card free-credit grant was dropped on 2026-08-14; the Free plan is now pay-as-you-go credits requiring a payment method
2026-10-22	docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/rate-limits	documentation still lists 'Free Tier: Applied when there is no payment method linked with your account' and a Developer Tier at 20M tokens per day across all models, which contradicts the plans page

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated