Groq vs SambaNova

Side-by-side comparison of Groq and SambaNova: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Groq Fast, low-cost AI inference powered by custom LPU silicon Visit	SambaNova The Fastest AI Inference Platform Visit
Category	AI infrastructure	AI infrastructure
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Groq (third-party models hosted on LPU infrastructure)	SambaNova (own RDU hardware; OpenAI-compatible APIs; frontier open-weight models)
Founded	2016
Headquarters	San Jose, USA
Key strengths	·Fast AI inference ·LPU (Language Processing Unit) hardware ·LPX alongside NVIDIA GPUs ·Scalable inference at low cost	·Fastest AI inference platform ·10x lower cost of inference ·Energy-efficient RDU chip architecture ·OpenAI-compatible APIs