Nebius vs SambaNova
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Nebius is cheaper on 9 of 9 shared models (input or output price), SambaNova on 0.
Nebius
AI cloud from the former Yandex team with H100/H200/B200 clusters in Europe and the US, plus Nebius AI Studio for per-token open-weight inference. Competitive pricing at cluster scale.
- European datacenters
- Both clusters and per-token inference
- Aggressive large-scale pricing
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 | Nebius in/out | SambaNova in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.020 / $0.060 | $0.100 / $0.200 | Nebius |
| Llama-Guard-3-8B | $0.020 / $0.060 | $0.300 / $0.300 | Nebius |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.400 / $0.800 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.600 / $1.20 | Nebius |
| QwQ-32B | $0.150 / $0.450 | $0.500 / $1.00 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.250 / $0.750 | $0.700 / $1.40 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.500 / $1.50 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.800 / $2.40 | $5.00 / $7.00 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.1 405B | $1.00 / $3.00 | $5.00 / $10.00 | Nebius |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.