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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.

64.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 88/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid
2 published contracts 4 Agent Skills
CompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLMInferenceGenerative AIAgentsEmbeddingsPlatformEnterprise

What this lets a business do 3

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information & Data Management
BC-610
Chat CompletionsCompletionsEmbeddingsMessagesModelsResponses
POST /completions POST /embeddings POST /chat/completions POST /messages
Agent Infrastructure & Agentic Commerce
AE-100
Main Agent InteractiveSubagentsSubagents Interactive
POST /agent/coding POST /agent/datascience POST /agent/deepresearch POST /agent/financialanalysis
AI Model Services
AE-110
Audio
POST /audio/transcriptions POST /audio/translations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
  • Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
  • Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares 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.

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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).

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Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

SambaNova Systems API pricing

Prices published by SambaNova Systems, read 2026-10-07 from cloud.sambanova.ai/plans/pricing.

PlanPrice
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

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sambanova Systems Rate Limits

11 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service 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.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

SambaNova Systems API Rules

68 rules · 55 errors 6 warnings 7 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI 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

1 action · update · sambanova-systems-agents-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Sambanova Systems Cloud Overlay

2 actions · update · sambanova-systems-cloud-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sambanova Systems Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Sambanova Systems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Sambanova Systems Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sambanova Systems Agentic Access

21 operations · 18 acting

21 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

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)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sambanova-systems
name: SambaNova Systems
description: 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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sambanova-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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- Platform
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- Company
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- FN: Kin Lane
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- FN: APIs.json
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apis:
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  name: SambaNova Systems Audio API
  description: The Audio API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for audio.
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- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-chat-completions-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Chat completions API
  description: The Chat completions API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
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  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
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- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-completions-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Completions API
  description: The Completions API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for completions.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
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  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
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- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-embeddings-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-file-management-api
  name: SambaNova Systems File Management API
  description: The File Management API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for file management.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - File Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-file-management-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-main-agent-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Main Agent API
  description: The Main Agent API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for main agent.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Main Agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-main-agent-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-main-agent-interactive-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Main Agent Interactive API
  description: The Main Agent Interactive API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for main agent interactive.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Main Agent Interactive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-main-agent-interactive-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-messages-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Messages API
  description: The Messages API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for messages.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Message
  tags_raw:
  - Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-messages-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-models-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Models API
  description: The Models API from SambaNova Systems — 2 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-models-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-responses-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Responses API
  description: The Responses API from SambaNova Systems — 1 operation(s) for responses.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-responses-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-subagents-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Subagents API
  description: The Subagents API from SambaNova Systems — 4 operation(s) for subagents.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Subagents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-subagents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: sambanova-systems:sambanova-systems-subagents-interactive-api
  name: SambaNova Systems Subagents Interactive API
  description: The Subagents Interactive API from SambaNova Systems — 4 operation(s) for subagents interactive.
  humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Subagents Interactive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sambanova-systems-subagents-interactive-api-openapi.yml
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- type: Plans
  url: plans/sambanova-systems-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://sambanova.ai/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/sambanova-systems-capability-edges.yml
  name: SambaNova Systems Business Capability Map
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/sambanova-systems-trust-center.yml
- type: Community
  url: https://community.sambanova.ai
- type: StarterKits
  url: https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit
- type: Hardware
  url: https://sambanova.ai/products/sn50-rdu
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sambanova-systems
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/SambaNovaAI
- type: Overlay
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- type: Website
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- type: Documentation
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- type: Support
  url: https://sambanova.ai/support
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    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
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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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