Always-free quotaMedium High confidence
SambaNova Cloud
A possible free offer exists, but a decisive term still needs verification.
Free accessAlways-free quota
Payment cardUnknown
AccountNot documented
Sources3 first-party links
API endpoint
https://api.sambanova.ai/v1Positive Evidence
Current rate-limit docs define a no-payment-method Free Tier.Official staff posts in 2026 describe accounts without a card as Free Tier accounts.
Negative Evidence
The current plans page says Free users must add a payment method and purchase credits before the first request.
Advertised Free Limits
- Production Model Ids
- DeepSeek-V3.1Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instructgpt-oss-120b
- Preview Evaluation Only Ids
- DeepSeek-V3.2gemma-4-31B-it
- Per Model
- Requests Per Minute
- 20
- Requests Per Day
- 20
- Tokens Per Day
- 200,000
Recommendation
Require a zero-balance authenticated generation before counting this as an ongoing tier.Receipts
3Primary sources
Official DocsModel rate limits and Free Tierhttps://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/rate-limitsOfficial PlansContradictory plans pagehttps://cloud.sambanova.ai/plansOfficial Community Staff · 2026-03-18No-card Free Tier confirmationhttps://community.sambanova.ai/t/minimax-2-5-is-now-available-on-the-sambacloud-developer-tier/1601/10