What are SambaNova Cloud's free rate limits?

For gpt-oss-120b: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day, 200K tokens/day.

When was this SambaNova Cloud data last verified?

Oct 21, 2026, against: Rate limits policy; Plans.

Free tier/Report for October 2026

SambaNova Cloud

Free API tier limits · LLM inference

Free Tier per model: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day, 200K tokens/day on DeepSeek, Llama 3.3 70B, gpt-oss-120b, Gemma 4.

Card unverifiedVerified Oct 21, 20262 official sourcesLLM inference

20requests / minuteRank 7 of 9 that publish it

20requests / dayRank 3 of 3 that publish it

200Ktokens / dayRank 3 of 3 that publish it

Unknowncard requirement unverified

Headline figures for gpt-oss-120b. Ranks compare providers' published headline figures, not identical models.

Free allowance

Per model: 20 RPD and 200,000 tokens/day.

Payment method. Conflicting official pages: the rate-limits doc says the Free Tier 'applies when there is no payment method linked', while the Plans page says 'Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests'.

Limits by model

Model / tier	RPM	RPD	TPM	TPD / other
DeepSeek-V3.1	20	20	—	200K
Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	20	20	—	200K
gpt-oss-120b	20	20	—	200K
DeepSeek-V3.2 (preview)	20	20	—	200K
gemma-4-31B-it (preview)	20	20	—	200K

Models on the free offer

DeepSeek-V3.1Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instructgpt-oss-120bDeepSeek-V3.2 (preview)gemma-4-31B-it (preview)

Worth knowing

Developer Tier (payment method linked) is capped at 20M tokens/day across all models.

Left blank on purpose: whether a card is required, tokens per minute. No official public source as of Oct 21, 2026.

Change history

Oct 21, 2026Official pages disagree on whether a card is needed

Questions

Does SambaNova Cloud have a free API tier?: Free tier. Free Tier per model: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day, 200K tokens/day on DeepSeek, Llama 3.3 70B, gpt-oss-120b, Gemma 4.
Does SambaNova Cloud require a credit card?: We could not verify this from an official page, so we leave it blank rather than guess. Conflicting official pages: the rate-limits doc says the Free Tier 'applies when there is no payment method linked', while the Plans page says 'Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests'.
What are SambaNova Cloud's free rate limits?: For gpt-oss-120b: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day, 200K tokens/day.
When was this SambaNova Cloud data last verified?: Oct 21, 2026, against: Rate limits policy; Plans.