| Field | SambaNova Cloud | W&B Inference |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Ongoing free tier · recurring-credit |
| What's free | Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models | $100/month of Serverless Inference credits on the Free plan (default spending cap; offer for a limited time) |
| 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 RPM/TPM published; default cap of $100/month on the Free tier; concurrency limits per project/user |
| 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. | Serverless Inference credits come with Free, Pro and Academic plans for a limited time; when credits run out, Free accounts must activate pay-as-you-go on the Billing tab or upgrade. OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 with any W&B API key. |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not confirmed | not confirmed |
| Commercial use | allowed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | yeshttps://api.sambanova.ai/v1 | yeshttps://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 |
| Modalities | text | text, vision |
| Free models (sample) | DeepSeek-V3.1 Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct gpt-oss-120b | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 openai/gpt-oss-120b openai/gpt-oss-20b zai-org/GLM-5.2 google/gemma-4-31B-it nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B |
| Official docs | cloud.sambanova.ai/plans | docs.wandb.ai/inference/usage-limits |
| Last verified | 2026-08-13 | 2026-08-14 |