# SambaCloud vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub (slim)

> SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) to Tencent Cloud TokenHub's 59.5 (C) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Tencent Cloud TokenHub's 59.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tencent Cloud TokenHub leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do llm inference.

- SambaCloud: B 66.4, rank #297 of 1260 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Tencent Cloud TokenHub: C 59.5, rank #646 of 1260 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub.min.md
- SambaCloud, good for Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 46; Schema & documentation, 81 against 73; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Transparency & trust, 63 against 54. Also Free to start without a card.
- Tencent Cloud TokenHub, good for Teams in or near Tencent Cloud that want one key and bill for Tencent's Hy models and Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qwen, MiMo) with per-key limits and CNY billing. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 83 against 67; Security & auth, 71 against 58.

| Category | SambaCloud | Tencent Cloud TokenHub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 46 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 73 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SambaCloud | Tencent Cloud TokenHub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | Model router |
| Vendor | SambaNova Systems, Inc. | Tencent Cloud |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` | `https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the TokenHub Terms of Service, the TokenHub SLA and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, with a special note for third-party deployed models. The `tencent-tokenhub-cli` package is Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-10-24 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-05-27 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk | 204 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, SambaCloud +39: SambaCloud 85 (Hosted reading. Status page at status.sambanova.ai on Statuspage, with components for the API gateway, the Playground and each model (20). The incident feed lists 25 incidents since launch, the latest an 8-minute Playground login fault on 25 June 2026, so nothing is posted for the last 90 days (30). Limits published per model and tier, 20 requests a minute and 20 a day on the free tier, 60 and 12,000 on the Developer tier (15). `x-ratelimit-*` headers on every response, the error table says to retry `queue_full` after a delay, and the SDKs retry 429 and server errors twice with backoff. No `Retry-After` header was found in the docs or the OpenAPI document (10 of 15). No SLA found on the legal page or in the terms (0). Three production models are generally available, three are previews (10).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 46 (Hosted reading. No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check (0). With no page there is no incident record to read (5 of 30). The announcements carry one incident, DeepSeek's directly supplied models unavailable from 9:06 to 13:04 Beijing time on 15 October 2026 after a fault at DeepSeek, compensated with vouchers. Rate limits are per model, shown in the console and returned by DescribeModelQuota. The public docs give numbers only for batch jobs (20 created a minute, 10 active), image models (5 concurrent) and DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro (2,500 and 500 concurrent), with the rules for self-serve increases (8 of 15). Six 429 codes separate RPM, TPM, TPD, concurrency and upstream capacity, 429s may carry `Retry-After` and the docs advise exponential backoff. No idempotency guidance, though inference calls are not writes (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% monthly availability with vouchers of 10, 25 or 50 per cent of the month's fee. It excludes free use and third-party deployed models such as DeepSeek's directly supplied ones (10). Generally available since 7 April 2026, with some models marked preview (10).)
- Agent ergonomics, Tencent Cloud TokenHub +16: SambaCloud 67 (Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Function calling with `tool_choice` to force a function, on six listed models, and a July 2026 fix for tool calls that were buffered when streaming (17 of 20). `json_object` and `json_schema` output, best effort only, with a known failure on DeepSeek-V3.2 recorded in July 2026 (8 of 15). Automatic prompt caching on the MiniMax models only, with cached input on MiniMax-M3 at a tenth of the input price, a 4,096-token minimum and no guaranteed persistence (10 of 15). 131,072-token context on four of six models, 1M on the MiniMax-M3 preview, and output capped at 7,168 tokens on DeepSeek and 3,072 on Llama 3.3 70B (8 of 15). No batch API found in the docs index or the OpenAPI document (0 of 10). Official SDKs for Python and TypeScript, and the OpenAI and Anthropic clients work with a changed base URL (10). Errors carry `type`, `param`, `code` and `request_id` (14 of 15).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 83 (Router, read on the model lines. Function calling is marked on most chat models in the model list, with behaviour depending on the model routed (14 of 20). Structured output is marked per model and missing on the MiniMax and Qwen models, and an unsupported `response_format` returns code 400006 (12 of 15). Cache-hit prices are published per model, Kimi K3.1 Pro lists five-minute and one-hour cache writes, and a guide covers `prompt_cache_key` and the `X-Session-ID` header for instance affinity (14 of 15). Most listed chat models have contexts of one million tokens, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). Batch at half price covers only Hy3 and Hy4 preview, reads and writes JSONL in the customer's own COS bucket and is documented for the Guangzhou endpoint (5 of 10). No TokenHub inference SDK. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a changed base URL, and Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 and the `thcli` CLI cover the control plane (8 of 10). Errors return a code, English and Chinese messages, the source, the upstream code and status and a request ID, and stream errors arrive as SSE error frames (15 of 15).)
- Security & auth, Tencent Cloud TokenHub +13: SambaCloud 58 (Model reading. Bearer keys from the console, up to 25 per user and shown once. No scopes, project limits or rotation guidance were found, and the key travels in a header, never in the URL (18 of 30). The terms let SambaNova access, store and process Customer Content solely to supply the service and for no other purposes, which rules out training without naming it (18 of 20). No retention period is published. The product page says SambaCloud never sees or collects prompts, while the terms grant a right to store content and to use query logs (7 of 15). The console has a Usage page. No request logs or audit log were found in the docs (5 of 15). The trust centre states SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001. No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, and the SDK's SECURITY.md sends service reports to a general address (10 of 20).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 71 (Router, read on the model lines. Bearer keys can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 source IP ranges and daily, monthly or total token quotas, can be disabled or deleted, and can be created in code through CreateApiKey with signed Tencent Cloud credentials. Keys are long-lived with no expiry setting or built-in rotation (26 of 30). Clause 2.17 of the terms says inputs are not used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and the FAQ says data is not used for training. Inputs to third-party deployed models (DeepSeek's directly supplied ones) go to DeepSeek under its terms (14 of 20). Clause 2.14 keeps data only as long as the service needs, with no periods stated. When a customer asks for generated content without AI labels, Tencent Cloud keeps logs of who received it for at least six months. No zero-retention option was found (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs (request ID, key, client IP, status, tokens, latency) and optional full call logs go to the customer's CLS, billed separately, with usage by key and a monitoring dashboard (14 of 15). No security.txt on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com or tokenhub.tencentmaas.com (404). Tencent's bug bounty through TSRC lists Tencent Cloud in scope. No certification for TokenHub was checked (10 of 20).)
- Transparency & trust, SambaCloud +9: SambaCloud 63 (Closed service with clear terms that name the entity and the governing law, and Apache-2.0 SDKs and OpenAPI document (15). The privacy policy is dated 27 May 2023 and does not name SambaCloud or API inputs, no DPA or retention period is published, and the product page's claim that prompts are never seen or collected sits beside terms that allow storing content and using query logs (10 of 30). A deprecations page with notice and removal dates back to April 2025, though it has no entry for Mistral Large 3 or MiniMax-M2.7 (14 of 20). The terms name Stripe as payment processor and the privacy policy names regions in general terms. No sub-processor list or data location for inference was found (5 of 20).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 54 (Closed service under the TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (23 April 2026), a special note on third-party deployed models and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, naming Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The CLI is Apache-2.0 (18 of 30). The terms and the FAQ agree that inputs are processed on the customer's instructions and not used for training, and clause 2.14 limits retention to what the service needs without periods. The TokenHub privacy policy on privacy.qq.com renders only with JavaScript and was not read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices, shutdown dates in the model list, a `pre-offline` status in `/v1/models` and a `DiscontinuedAt` field in the control API. Clause 6.3 refunds paid, unused tokens when a third-party model is removed. No minimum notice period is written (13 of 20). Clause 2.13 places processing generally in mainland China for the China site and in Singapore for the international site, and the third-party model list names DeepSeek's Hangzhou company with a link to its terms. No subprocessor list was found (13 of 20).)
- Schema & documentation, SambaCloud +8: SambaCloud 81 (Public OpenAPI 3.1.1 document, version 1.2.0, with 10 operations and 169 schemas, last updated 17 September 2026 (25). `llms.txt` at docs.sambanova.ai/docs/llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page (10). 717 descriptions in the document, with feature pages for function calling, Responses, Messages and caching. When not to use a route is rarely stated (15 of 20). Typed parameters with 152 enums, but JSON schema output is best effort and `strict: true` has no effect (10 of 15). Code examples in Python and TypeScript, and an errors page with 13 codes and a recovery suggestion for each (13 of 15). The spec is versioned and release notes are dated, but the newest SambaCloud entry is 7 July 2026 and the models page disagrees with `/v1/models` (8 of 15).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 73 (Router, scored on the API lines. No OpenAPI file for the inference routes. Field pages document the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages formats as TokenHub implements them, and the control plane is a Tencent Cloud API 3.0 service (version 2026-03-22) with typed parameters, API Explorer and SDKs (12 of 25). An llms.txt at cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt links a Markdown copy of each docs page (10). The docs say which models support thinking, tools, structured output and caching, how TokenHub departs from each standard protocol, and which DeepSeek model suits which job. The quickstart's examples still use `deepseek-v3`, which is not in the model list, and Qwen3.5 stays in the list with a past shutdown date (13 of 20). Protocol pages list each field with type, required flag and default, and control-plane parameters carry enums and required flags (10 of 15). Examples in curl, Python, Node.js, Java and Go, and an error page listing 30 codes with HTTP status, cause and fix (14 of 15). Paths carry `/v1`, release notes are dated monthly from 7 April to 24 October 2026, and the control-plane API has a dated history of 26 releases to 18 September 2026 (14 of 15).)
- Payments & pricing, SambaCloud +5: SambaCloud 40 (No machine payment protocol (0). Per-token prices on the pricing page and in `/v1/models`, both read without a login, such as gpt-oss-120b at $0.22 in and $0.59 out per 1M tokens (20). Free tier with no payment method (20). A person signs up in the console to get a key (0).); Tencent Cloud TokenHub 35 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in CNY for Guangzhou and Singapore, with DeepSeek's peak and off-peak rates (20). Each account gets 1M free tokens per language model, valid for a year, in a campaign running to 31 December 2026. No card is mentioned, but the account needs real-name verification, so this line takes 15 of 20. A person signs up and completes real-name verification in a browser. Keys can then be created in code or by `thcli auth login`, but only from that account (0).)