Groq vs SambaNova Cloud
A side-by-side comparison of Groq and SambaNova Cloud, two Inference tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Groq
Custom LPU silicon delivers deterministic sub-100ms TTFT, ideal for voice and latency-critical apps.
- Hundreds of tokens/sec on open models
- Sub-100ms time-to-first-token
- Deterministic, low-variance latency
- OpenAI-compatible API with free tier
- Curated open-weight models only
- No frontier closed models (GPT/Claude)
- SRAM limits large context windows
- Rate limits during peak demand
SambaNova Cloud
One of the few clouds serving Llama 405B in native 16-bit precision at 100+ tokens/sec, not a quantized copy.
- Serves Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, gpt-oss
- Hundreds of tokens/sec on RDU chips
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Free tier to start
- Open-weight catalog only
- No fine-tuning/custom hosting like GPU clouds
- Smaller model selection than rivals