Azure AI Foundry vs SambaNova
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 3 of 6 shared models (input or output price), SambaNova on 0.
Azure AI Foundry
OpenAI models with Azure enterprise controls plus a broad third-party model catalog. The compliance-friendly way to run GPT-class models.
- Azure compliance/enterprise controls
- OpenAI models with SLAs
- Provisioned throughput
SambaNova
RDU-based inference cloud serving large open models (405B-class) at high speed with per-token pricing..
- Fast large-model serving
- Full-precision open models
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | SambaNova in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.220 / $0.590 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.250 / $1.00 | $0.630 / $1.80 | Azure AI Foundry |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.580 / $1.68 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.710 / $0.710 | $0.600 / $1.20 | SambaNova |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $1.23 / $4.94 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Azure AI Foundry |
| DeepSeek R1 | $1.35 / $5.40 | $5.00 / $7.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.