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 pageSambaNova vs Together AI
Our take
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. Pick Together AI if developers who want one HTTP call to Llama/Qwen/DeepSeek-class models and will read the per-model row. Skip Together AI if people who want a local engine (vLLM, Ollama) or a
Together AI
hosted inference (and fine-tune) platform
Best for
SambaNova A SambaCloud chat you start at a public $
Together AI Pay for open-model tokens without standing up a GPU
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
Together AI No free plan
Lowest paid
SambaNova MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.03
Together AI Ternary Bonsai 27B $0.00
Next step up
SambaNova gpt-oss-120b $0.22
Together AI Tev1 4B Experimental $0.04
Coding agent
SambaNova Agents
Together AI
Runs where
SambaNova Hosted
Together AI Hosted
Watch out
SambaNova Free does not print a $0 inference allowance
Together AI You are billed per token (or per dedicated GPU), not $20/month chat
Last checked
SambaNova 2026-10-23 · cloud.sambanova.ai/pricing
Together AI 2026-10-20 · together.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Together AI if
developers who want one HTTP call to Llama/Qwen/DeepSeek-class models and will read the per-model row.
Read the Together AI page