SambaCloud vs Simplismart

SambaCloud

Per-token prices and the model list are readable without a key at /v1/models, and a free tier needs no card. Production models get two to three weeks' notice before removal, 13 model ids left between March and June 2026, and the docs disagree with the live catalogue on MiniMax-M2.7.

Simplismart

Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.

SambaCloud

1. Call GET https://api.sambanova.ai/v1/models at start-up and use only ids it returns. The docs name models the endpoint no longer lists
2. Read x-ratelimit-remaining-requests and x-ratelimit-remaining-requests-day on every response. The free tier allows 20 requests a day per model
3. Treat 429 queue_full and 503 maintenance as retryable after a delay, and 410 model_deprecated as a signal to change model
4. Validate JSON output yourself. Schema enforcement is best effort and strict: true changes nothing
5. Check max_completion_tokens per model. DeepSeek-V3.1 caps output at 7,168 tokens and Llama 3.3 70B at 3,072

Simplismart

1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.
2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.
3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.
4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.
5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.