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sambanova.ai

Free LLM quota · free models · community reputation · risk review

TypeOfficial (free tier)
StatusUp
Reputation85 / 100
Risk level Low
Confidence90%
Websitehttps://sambanova.ai ↗
Discovered from12britz/awesome-free-models

Overview

SambaNova is an AI hardware/inference vendor delivering ultra-fast inference on its in-house RDU chips. Its SambaNova Cloud offers an OpenAI-compatible free developer tier where you can sign up for a key and call open models like Llama and DeepSeek for free.

Free quota

Free tier (no payment method linked): ~$5 in API credit with no credit card, with some reports of ~$5 trial credit for new developers (~30M tokens on Llama 8B); linking a payment method upgrades to the Developer Tier with higher rate limits (e.g. >10k tokens/min on 70B models, 20M tokens/day across all models).

Free models

Llama 3.1 405BLlama 3.3 70BLlama 3.1 8BDeepSeek V3-0324DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Pros

Cons

Risk flags

Community reputation

SambaNova Cloud is listed in authoritative free-API compilations such as cheahjs/free-llm-api-resources, and deeplearning.ai's The Batch reported its very fast, free access to large Llama models. First-party operation, positive reputation and legitimate sourcing — a big-vendor paid cloud's limited free trial tier.

Recommendation

Recommended for listing as a reliable official free-trial tier (first-party-free). Good for trying ultra-fast inference and open models; mind the free-allowance and expiry limits, heavy use requires payment.

Latest probe

ReachableYes (HTTP 200)
Latency806 ms
Platformunknown
Models endpointauth required

Mentions (3)

cheahjs/free-llm-api-resources (GitHub) · positive
SambaNova Cloud 被收录为可通过 API 访问的免费 LLM 推理资源之一，列出其免费层与可用模型。 ↗
deeplearning.ai The Batch · positive
报道 SambaNova 以极快速度免费开放 Llama 3.1 最大模型访问。 ↗
costbench.com · neutral
SambaNova 免费层提供约 $5 API 额度、无需信用卡；绑定支付方式后进入 Developer Tier，速率与配额上限提升。 ↗

Sources

Community discussion · reputation check

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FAQ

Is sambanova.ai safe and trustworthy?

Overall reputation 85/100, risk level Low. SambaNova Cloud is listed in authoritative free-API compilations such as cheahjs/free-llm-api-resources, and deeplearning.ai's The Batch reported its very fast, free access to large Llama models. First-party operation, positive reputation and legitimate sourcing — a big-vendor paid cloud's limited free trial tier.

Will sambanova.ai shut down? Is the service stable?

Known risks: Free allowance is limited and expires in ~30 days; not long-term free; Free-tier rate limits are lower; heavy use requires linking a card / payment. Free and relay/public-benefit stations generally have no SLA and may shut down or change quotas at any time; don't use them for production or critical work — keep an official paid fallback for important use.

Which free models does sambanova.ai offer? How much free quota?

Free quota: Free tier (no payment method linked): ~$5 in API credit with no credit card, with some reports of ~$5 trial credit for new developers (~30M tokens on Llama 8B); linking a payment method upgrades to the Developer Tier with higher rate limits (e.g. >10k tokens/min on 70B models, 20M tokens/day across all models).. Available free models: Llama 3.1 405B, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, DeepSeek V3-0324, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.

Is sambanova.ai worth using? How should I use it?

Recommended for listing as a reliable official free-trial tier (first-party-free). Good for trying ultra-fast inference and open models; mind the free-allowance and expiry limits, heavy use requires payment.

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