Our take
SambaNova is a US host serving other labs' models, and the reason to pick it is paperwork rather than price: an independent security attestation and a zero-retention option are both verified in our data, and it does not train on prompts. Its rates are not uniformly low, and the same model can sit on two very differently priced rows.
Use it when a procurement review has to be satisfied before prompts leave your building, and the models it carries cover the job. Check both of its rows for a model before you commit, because a prompt-heavy workload and a generation-heavy one do not land on the same one. Skip it if you need processing to stay inside the EU, or if the rate is the only thing deciding the choice.
- An independent security attestation, a zero-retention option and no training on prompts are all verified in our data, which is the combination a security review asks for before prompts leave the building.
- It lists two differently shaped rates for the same model, so a prompt-heavy workload and a generation-heavy one can be matched to the row that suits them.
- European hosting is unverified in our data, so a team that must keep processing inside the EU has nothing here to point at.
- Its own rates for one model can differ several times over depending on which row you pick, so the offer you choose matters as much as the host.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for SambaNova yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign SambaNova has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to SambaNova through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 59 min ago. For SambaNova's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
We have not dated this attestation or linked the report yet.
Prompt retention: none.