Pick Cerebras if
developers who will burn a $5 credit to measure tokens/sec, then pay per 1M.
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Our take
Pick Cerebras if developers who will burn a $5 credit to measure tokens/sec, then pay per 1M. Pick SambaNova if developers who will read a printed $/1M row (gpt-oss-120b $0.22 / $0.59) and open a first Playground, then stay on Developer pay-as-you-go — not Enterprise unless they need production rate limits / BYOC. Skip Cerebras if people who want a local runtime (Ollama) or a multi-vendor router.
Best for
Cerebras Hit a very fast hosted model
SambaNova A SambaCloud chat you start at a public $
Free plan
Cerebras No free plan
SambaNova $0 · start exploring SambaNova Cloud. Add a payment method and purchase credits to run requests. Pay-as-you-go credits. Production models. Community support. No printed welcome-credit $ on the page we fetched — do not invent one
Lowest paid
Cerebras GPT-OSS 120B $0.35
SambaNova MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.03
Next step up
Cerebras Qwen 27B $0.99
SambaNova gpt-oss-120b $0.22
Coding agent
Cerebras Coding agent card
SambaNova Agents
Runs where
Cerebras Hosted
SambaNova Hosted
Watch out
Cerebras $5 is a coupon, not a plan
SambaNova Free does not print a $0 inference allowance
Last checked
Cerebras 2026-10-21 · cerebras.ai/pricing
SambaNova 2026-10-23 · cloud.sambanova.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick SambaNova if
developers who will read a printed $/1M row (gpt-oss-120b $0.22 / $0.59) and open a first Playground, then stay on Developer pay-as-you-go — not Enterprise unless they need production rate limits / BYOC.
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