Pick Groq if
developers who will copy a model ID and a $/1M row from the Supported Models table.
Read the Groq pageGroq vs SambaNova
Our take
Pick Groq if developers who will copy a model ID and a $/1M row from the Supported Models table. 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.
Groq
hosted inference API on GroqCloud
Best for
Groq Fast token generation billed per 1M tokens
SambaNova A SambaCloud chat you start at a public $
Free plan
Groq 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
Groq Llama Prompt Guard 2 22M $0.03
SambaNova MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.03
Next step up
Groq Whisper large-v3-turbo $0.04/hour
SambaNova gpt-oss-120b $0.22
Coding agent
Groq
SambaNova Agents
Runs where
Groq Hosted
SambaNova Hosted
Watch out
Groq Rows move
SambaNova Free does not print a $0 inference allowance
Last checked
Groq 2026-10-22 · console.groq.com/docs/models
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.
Read the SambaNova page