Fireworks AI vs SambaNova
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Fireworks AI is cheaper on 5 of 10 shared models (input or output price), SambaNova on 1.
Fireworks AI
Speed-focused open-model inference with FireAttention serving stack, function-calling models and image generation. Strong latency SLAs for production apps.
- Very low latency serving
- Function-calling optimized
- Enterprise SLAs
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 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Fireworks AI in/out | SambaNova in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.220 / $0.590 | Fireworks AI |
| Llama-Guard-3-8B | $0.200 / $0.200 | $0.300 / $0.300 | Fireworks AI |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.600 / $2.40 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.560 / $1.68 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.560 / $1.68 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.900 / $0.900 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.700 / $1.40 | SambaNova |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.400 / $0.800 | SambaNova |
| QwQ-32B | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.500 / $1.00 | SambaNova |
| DeepSeek R1 | $3.00 / $8.00 | $5.00 / $7.00 | Fireworks AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.