| Field | SambaNova Cloud | Pollinations.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Ongoing free tier · perpetual |
| What's free | Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models | Free hosted image models (Flux, Turbo, Stable Diffusion) via a simple GET URL; also text and audio. No signup required to start |
| Rate limits | Free Tier: 20 RPM / 20 RPD / 200,000 TPD across all models; Developer Tier (card required): 60-240 RPM depending on model | Anonymous ~1 request / 15s; free registration (Seed tier) ~1 request / 5s |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | Free Tier applies when no payment method is linked to the account; SambaCloud ToS grants a commercial license (no evaluation-only clause). The previously-listed "$5 / 3 months" trial could not be re-confirmed on official pages (2026-07-30). As of 2026-10-08 SambaNova's own pages disagree: the rate-limits doc still describes this no-card Free Tier, while the plans page says to add a payment method and buy credits before the first request. Needs a hands-on signup check. | Anonymous free images may carry a watermark (since 2025); free registration removes it via the nologo parameter. No card, no phone. Commercial use is not explicitly guaranteed in the docs. |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not confirmed | not required |
| Commercial use | allowed | not confirmed |
| OpenAI-compatible | yeshttps://api.sambanova.ai/v1 | no |
| Modalities | text | image, text, audio |
| Free models (sample) | DeepSeek-V3.1 Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct gpt-oss-120b | openai-fast |
| Official docs | cloud.sambanova.ai/plans | github.com/pollinations/pollinations/blob/master/APIDOCS.md |
| Last verified | 2026-08-13 | 2026-08-14 |