Is sambanova a serious company?

Deprecating 2 of the only multimodal models with 3 days heads up? Rush in to introduce Gemma 4 model that doesn’t even exist in documentation and register sub 200 tps in my local benchmark? I might as well go back to normal openai api. I thought sambanova is trying to crack fast inference like groq and cerebra’s but the only multimodal is barely usable.

coupled to the 6 months bugs of free tier users upgrading to developer plan and still getting 429 request error and the reverting and re-reverting of usage and payment UI.

I am starting to think this company is ran by vibe coding bros.

/rant

Hi @ericB ,
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We understand your concerns and are currently reviewing the issues you’ve raised with the relevant teams. We will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

Best regards,
Shivani Moze

hey @ericB - SambaNova partners like SCX.ai are offering a lot of models on SambaNova hardware today..would love to have you try it - would love your view on this and what models you need