82
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
600 req/min · free · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Llama 3.3 70BLlama 3.1 405BDeepSeek-R1
Rate Limit
600 requests/minute on smaller models
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=300">"YOUR_SAMBANOVA_KEY",
base_url=300">"https://api.sambanova.ai/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
SambaNova's RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) runs Llama 3.3 70B and 405B at exceptional speeds. Free Cloud tier with a simple signup.
// Pros
- Llama 405B free access
- High rate limits
- OpenAI-compatible
// Cons
- Smaller ecosystem
- Fewer docs than big players
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)60/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)86/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)80/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Large model inferenceReasoning tasksResearch
// Recent changes
Apr 10, 2026Added DeepSeek-R1 to free tieradded