SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems is an AI infrastructure company that builds custom Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips and the SambaCloud, SambaStack, and SambaRack platforms for fast, energy-efficient AI inference. Its developer-facing product, SambaNova Cloud, exposes an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible inference API (chat completions, completions, the Responses API, the Messages API, embeddings, and audio transcription/translation) serving open models such as Meta Llama, DeepSeek, MiniMax, gpt-oss, Gemma, and Mistral. A companion Agents Service provides coordinated coding, data-science, deep-research, and financial-analysis agents. Official Python and TypeScript SDKs, tiered rate limits, prompt caching, and dozens of framework integrations round out the platform.
SambaNova Systems publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Audio API, Chat completions API, Completions API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLM, and Inference.
The SambaNova Systems catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
SambaNova Systems’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 36 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 3
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Model Routing | covered | 43.1 | - | 1 |
| Hugging Face Hub Organisations | covered | 43.1 | - | 1 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 12
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
SambaNova Systems Audio API
The Audio API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for audio.
SambaNova Systems Chat completions API
The Chat completions API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
SambaNova Systems Completions API
The Completions API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for completions.
SambaNova Systems Embeddings API
The Embeddings API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
SambaNova Systems File Management API
The File Management API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for file management.
SambaNova Systems Main Agent API
The Main Agent API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for main agent.
SambaNova Systems Main Agent Interactive API
The Main Agent Interactive API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for main agent interactive.
SambaNova Systems Messages API
The Messages API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for messages.
SambaNova Systems Models API
The Models API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for models.
SambaNova Systems Responses API
The Responses API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for responses.
SambaNova Systems Subagents API
The Subagents API from SambaNova Systems — 4 operation(s) for subagents.
SambaNova Systems Subagents Interactive API
The Subagents Interactive API from SambaNova Systems — 4 operation(s) for subagents interactive.
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Open Collections 12
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Sambanova Agents Service Audio API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Chat completions API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Completions API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Embeddings API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio File Management API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Main Agent API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Main Agent Interactive API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Messages API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Models API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Responses API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Subagents API
OPEN COLLECTIONSambanova Agents Service Audio Subagents Interactive API
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Agent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Generate a chat completion with SambaNova
AGENT SKILLRun the SambaNova deep research agent
AGENT SKILLCreate embeddings with SambaNova
AGENT SKILLTranscribe or translate audio with SambaNova
AGENT SKILLSambaNova Systems API pricing
Prices published by SambaNova Systems, read 2026-10-07 from cloud.sambanova.ai/plans/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| MiniMax-M3 input | 0.60 USD per 1M tokens |
| MiniMax-M3 output | 2.40 USD per 1M tokens |
| MiniMax-M3 cached input | 0.06 USD per 1M cached input tokens |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 input | 3 USD per 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 output | 4.50 USD per 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 input | 3 USD per 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 output | 4.50 USD per 1M tokens |
| gemma-4-31B-it input | 0.38 USD per 1M tokens |
All 13 plans, limits and sources →
Billed by: 1m tokens · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Sambanova Systems Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Sambanova Systems Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
SambaNova Systems API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 2
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Sambanova Systems Agents Overlay
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DERIVEDSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
SambaNova Systems API — frequently asked questions
Does SambaNova Systems have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from SambaNova Systems, including SambaNova Systems Audio API, SambaNova Systems Chat completions API and SambaNova Systems Completions API, and 9 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SambaNova Systems API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for SambaNova Systems, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the SambaNova Systems API?
SambaNova Systems uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sambanova Systems Authentication.
How much does the SambaNova Systems API cost?
SambaNova Systems publishes its prices; its MiniMax-M3 input plan is 0.60 USD per 1M tokens as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 13 pricing plans for SambaNova Systems, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the SambaNova Systems API ready for AI agents?
SambaNova Systems has a Kin Score of 64.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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