aid: sambanova
name: SambaNova
description: >-
  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.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - AI Inference
  - Large Language Models
  - Dataflow
  - Hardware
  - Cloud
  - OpenAI Compatible
  - Sovereign AI
  - SDK
  - Accelerator
  - Open Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sambanova/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: sambanova:sambacloud-api
    name: SambaCloud API
    description: >-
      The SambaCloud API exposes OpenAI-compatible chat completions over
      SambaNova's RDU-accelerated infrastructure. It serves multiple open
      model families including DeepSeek V3, Llama 3.3 and Llama 4, Gemma 3,
      MiniMax, and gpt-oss, with text and vision capabilities depending on
      the model. The API is consumed via the sambanova-python and
      sambanova-typescript SDKs and through OpenAI client libraries.
    humanURL: https://docs.sambanova.ai
    baseURL: https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
    tags:
      - Inference
      - LLM
      - Chat Completions
      - OpenAI Compatible
      - Multimodal
      - REST
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.sambanova.ai
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://docs.sambanova.ai/cloud/docs/get-started
      - type: Developer Portal
        url: https://cloud.sambanova.ai
      - type: SDK
        url: https://github.com/sambanova/sambanova-python
      - type: SDK
        url: https://github.com/sambanova/sambanova-typescript
      - type: StarterKits
        url: https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit
    features:
      - name: OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints
        description: >-
          Chat completions surface compatible with standard OpenAI SDKs
          for rapid migration of existing applications.
      - name: High-Throughput RDU Inference
        description: >-
          Backed by SN50 RDU silicon optimized for tokens-per-watt on
          agentic and reasoning workloads.
      - name: Open-Weight Model Catalog
        description: >-
          Curated catalog covering DeepSeek V3.1/V3.2, Llama 3.3 70B,
          Llama 4 Maverick, Gemma 3 12B, MiniMax M2.7, and gpt-oss 120B.
      - name: Vision and Multimodal Models
        description: >-
          Llama 4 Maverick and Gemma 3 endpoints support text plus image
          inputs for multimodal applications.
      - name: Custom Checkpoints
        description: >-
          SambaStack feature for deploying customer fine-tuned model
          checkpoints onto RDU silicon.
      - name: Sovereign AI Deployment
        description: >-
          Regional partner deployments across Australia, Europe, and the
          UK for data-residency-sensitive customers.
      - name: AI Starter Kits
        description: >-
          Curated example applications and notebooks for RAG, agents,
          function calling, and document understanding.
    useCases:
      - name: Agentic Inference Workloads
        description: >-
          Run long-running, tool-using agent loops on hardware tuned for
          tokens-per-watt efficiency.
      - name: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
        description: >-
          Build enterprise RAG pipelines using starter kits and OpenAI
          client compatibility.
      - name: Sovereign and Regulated AI
        description: >-
          Deploy in-region or on-prem for finance, government, and
          regulated enterprise workloads.
      - name: Reasoning and Code Generation
        description: >-
          Serve DeepSeek and gpt-oss reasoning models at high throughput
          for coding and research assistants.
      - name: Vision Document Understanding
        description: >-
          Process documents, images, and charts via multimodal Llama and
          Gemma endpoints.
    integrations:
      - name: OpenAI SDK
      - name: LangChain
      - name: LlamaIndex
      - name: Hugging Face
      - name: Intel
      - name: AWS
      - name: n8n
      - name: Vercel AI SDK
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: >-
          Authorization Bearer token issued from the /apis dashboard on
          cloud.sambanova.ai.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://sambanova.ai
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sambanova.ai
  - type: Developer Portal
    url: https://cloud.sambanova.ai
  - type: Community
    url: https://community.sambanova.ai
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/sambanova
  - type: StarterKits
    url: https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit
  - type: Hardware
    url: https://sambanova.ai/products/sn50-rdu
  - type: Blog
    url: https://sambanova.ai/blog
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sambanova-systems
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/SambaNovaAI
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com