SambaNova
Free tierThe Fastest AI Inference Platform
Free tier available·All audiences·Powered by SambaNova (own RDU hardware; OpenAI-compatible APIs; frontier open-weight models)·API available
Key strengths
Fastest AI inference platform10x lower cost of inferenceEnergy-efficient RDU chip architectureOpenAI-compatible APIsSupports largest frontier models6-month ROI for neocloudsAgentic AI workflow supportSovereign AI / on-premises deployment
Free tier + paid plans
Self-hostable
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SambaNova – Technical Use Cases
- High-throughput inference serving — deploy frontier open-weight models on RDU hardware to achieve maximum tokens-per-second throughput for production API traffic
- OpenAI API migration — swap inference backends with minimal code changes using SambaNova's OpenAI-compatible API layer
- Agentic AI pipelines — use SambaOrchestrator to build and run multi-step, multi-model agentic workflows at low latency
- Sovereign / air-gapped AI deployment — deploy SambaStack + SambaRack fully on-premises for government, defense, or regulated-industry workloads with no external data egress
- Neocloud infrastructure buildout — operators can achieve a 6-month ROI by offering SambaNova-powered inference as a service, leveraging the 10× cost efficiency of RDU architecture
- Enterprise private AI — self-host large frontier models within corporate infrastructure, maintaining data residency and compliance requirements