Cerebras vs SambaNova

Side-by-side comparison of Cerebras and SambaNova: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Cerebras Fast AI inference on wafer-scale chips Visit	SambaNova The Fastest AI Inference Platform Visit
Category	AI infrastructure	AI infrastructure
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Cerebras (own hardware/inference); supports models including Qwen, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K2.6, Codex-Spark, Meta Scout, and others	SambaNova (own RDU hardware; runs frontier open-weight models)
Founded	2015
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, USA
Key strengths	·Ultra-fast inference (up to 30x faster than GPUs) ·Wafer-Scale Engine hardware ·OpenAI API compatibility ·On-premise and cloud deployment	·Fastest AI inference platform ·OpenAI-compatible APIs ·Energy-efficient RDU chip architecture ·Supports largest frontier open-weight models