OpenRouter vs SambaNova
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: OpenRouter is cheaper on 6 of 6 shared models (input or output price), SambaNova on 0.
OpenRouter
One API key for 340+ models across every major provider, with automatic failover and pass-through pricing. The fastest way to hedge provider risk or A/B models without new integrations.
- 340+ models, one integration
- Automatic provider failover
- Pass-through pricing, small platform fee
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 | OpenRouter in/out | SambaNova in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.037 / $0.170 | $0.220 / $0.590 | OpenRouter |
| Gemma 4 31B | $0.090 / $0.340 | $0.380 / $1.15 | OpenRouter |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.210 / $0.840 | $0.600 / $2.40 | OpenRouter |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.220 / $0.500 | $0.600 / $1.20 | OpenRouter |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.280 / $0.420 | $3.00 / $4.50 | OpenRouter |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.700 / $2.50 | $5.00 / $7.00 | OpenRouter |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.