SambaNova vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: SambaNova is cheaper on 1 of 7 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 6.
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
Google Vertex AI
Gemini plus 100+ models in Google Cloud's ML platform, with enterprise governance, grounding and tuning pipelines..
- Enterprise governance
- Grounding with Google Search
- Model Garden variety
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | SambaNova in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.220 / $0.590 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.400 / $0.700 | $0.250 / $0.700 | Google Vertex AI |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.630 / $1.80 | $0.350 / $1.15 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $3.00 / $4.50 | $0.560 / $1.68 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $3.00 / $4.50 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $5.00 / $7.00 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Google Vertex AI |
| Llama 3.1 405B | $5.00 / $10.00 | $5.00 / $16.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.