| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Trial credit · trial-credit |
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| What's free | Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models | 200M free tokens on current embedding models (voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-4) and on rerankers (rerank-2.5 family); voyage-multimodal-3.5 and voyage-multimodal-3 get 200M text tokens + 150B pixels — a large one-time complimentary allotment per model |
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| Rate limits | Free Tier: 20 RPM / 20 RPD / 200,000 TPD across all models; Developer Tier (card required): 60-240 RPM depending on model | No numeric limit published for accounts without a payment method. With a payment method (Tier 1, free tokens still apply), per model: voyage-4 / voyage-code-4 8M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-large / voyage-context-4 3M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-lite 16M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-multimodal-3.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5-lite 4M TPM, 2,000 RPM. HTTP 429 on exceed |
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| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
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| 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. | The allotment is a one-time complimentary balance per model, not a renewing monthly quota. No credit card required to claim. Owned by MongoDB — a first-party model provider, not a proxy. |
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| Credit card | not required | not required |
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| Phone verification | not confirmed | not confirmed |
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| Commercial use | allowed | not confirmed |
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| OpenAI-compatible | yes https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
| no |
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| Modalities | text | text, image, embeddings, rerank |
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| Free models (sample) | DeepSeek-V3.1 Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct gpt-oss-120b | no sample |
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| Official docs | cloud.sambanova.ai/plans | docs.voyageai.com/docs/pricing |
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| Last verified | 2026-08-13 | 2026-08-14 |
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