SambaNova
80 pts
1 wins
VS
👑 
DeepSeek
95 pts
2 wins
🏆 Overall, DeepSeek offers more free value (2/6 categories)
📊 Side-by-Side
Category
SambaNova
DeepSeek
Free Tier
✅ 30 RPM (no total cap)
✅ 50 requests/day
Free API
✅ Free tier（永久免费）
✅ $5
Rate Limit
30 RPM
2 RPM
Open Source
❌ No
✅ Yes
Free Models
5
4
GitHub Stars
-
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🧠 Model Details
SambaNova 5 models Llama 3.1 405B
World's largest open-source model, completely free, RDU chip accelerated, ultra-fast
Llama 3.3 70B
Free to use, accelerated by custom RDU chip
DeepSeek R1
Reasoning model, free to use, 671B MoE
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek V3 latest, free to use
Qwen 2.5 72B
Alibaba Qwen, free to use
DeepSeek 4 models DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Released April 2026, 1.6T param MoE (49B active), 1M context, thinking/non-thinking modes
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Lightweight V4, 284B params (13B active), 1M context, excellent value
DeepSeek-V3
Previous flagship, still available
DeepSeek-R1
Reasoning model, strong at math/code