# SambaNova

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sambanova/  
**Website:** https://sambanova.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 5

SambaNova Systems designs the SN-series Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) AI chips and operates SambaCloud, a managed inference platform serving open-source models including the DeepSeek, Llama, Gemma, MiniMax, and gpt-oss families. The SambaCloud API is OpenAI-compatible and is consumed through first-party Python and TypeScript SDKs as well as the SambaNova AI Starter Kit collection on GitHub. SambaNova additionally ships SambaStack as an integrated chips-to-model on-prem appliance, SambaManaged managed services, and SambaRack rack-scale systems. The company emphasizes sovereign AI partnerships in Australia, Europe, and the UK and a recently announced heterogeneous inference collaboration with Intel.

## Kin Score — 38.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 22.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **SambaCloud API** — The SambaCloud API exposes OpenAI-compatible chat completions over SambaNova's RDU-accelerated infrastructure. It serves multiple open model families including DeepSeek V3, Llam...
- **SambaNova Chat API** — The Chat API from SambaNova — 1 operation(s) for chat.
- **SambaNova Completions API** — The Completions API from SambaNova — 1 operation(s) for completions.
- **SambaNova Embeddings API** — The Embeddings API from SambaNova — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
- **SambaNova Models API** — The Models API from SambaNova — 1 operation(s) for models.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sambanova Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 3 acting

## Security (3)

- **Sambanova Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Sambanova Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Sambanova Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Plans (1)

- **Sambanova Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Inference, Large Language Models, Dataflows, Hardware, Cloud, OpenAI-Compatible, Sovereign AI, SDK, Accelerator, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sambanova/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.