Novita AI vs SambaNova
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Novita AI is cheaper on 11 of 12 shared models (input or output price), SambaNova on 0.
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
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 | Novita AI in/out | SambaNova in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.020 / $0.050 | $0.100 / $0.200 | Novita AI |
| Llama 3.2 3B | $0.030 / $0.050 | $0.080 / $0.160 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.050 / $0.250 | $0.220 / $0.590 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.100 / $0.450 | $0.400 / $0.800 | Novita AI |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.135 / $0.400 | $0.600 / $1.20 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.180 / $0.590 | $0.400 / $0.700 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.269 / $0.400 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.270 / $1.12 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.270 / $0.850 | $0.630 / $1.80 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.270 / $1.00 | $3.00 / $4.50 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.700 / $2.50 | $5.00 / $7.00 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.800 / $0.800 | $0.700 / $1.40 | SambaNova |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.