SambaNova Systems Data Centers, Capex and GPU Pricing
SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic in July 2026, after a $350 million round in February 2026 led by Vista that included Intel, and a $676 million round in April 2021 at more than $5 billion. Its deployment model is SambaManaged, a modular offering scaling to a 1MW token factory with 100 racks and 1,600 chips. North American site names and MW are n.a., and no customer contract value is disclosed.
Reported and guided spending
Where SambaNova Systems builds
Financing transactions
Transactions that name SambaNova Systems as a party or attach to one of its named sites. Amounts are as stated, and overlapping commitments are never summed.
| Parties | Instrument | Amount | Date | Site | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SambaNova + General Atlantic Series F led by General Atlantic. |
equity raise | $1.0B | first tranche closed July 8, 2026 |
n.a. |
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SambaNova SambaNova's 2021 round, per Reuters. |
equity raise | ≥$676M | April 2021 |
n.a. |
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SambaNova + Vista + Intel Round preceding the Series F. |
equity raise | $350M | February 2026 |
n.a. |
Sourced facts on SambaNova Systems
- SambaManaged scales to a 1MW 'token factory' with 100 racks and 1,600 chips; each SambaRack holds 16 SN40L RDU chips at 10kW air-cooled, deployable in 90 days.
- SambaNova claims a 'major US public company' customer running DeepSeek-class models, with no contract value disclosed; NA site names and MW are n.a.
SambaNova Systems prices
Every price the Index tracks for SambaNova Systems, in the provider's own words beside a normalized figure, with the date it was last checked. What AI Costs compares them across the market.
| Seller | Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Per GPU-hour | Other published prices | Change | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SambaNova | gpt-oss-120b | $0.22 | n.a. | $0.59 | n.a. | None published | No change | ResearchSep 10, 2026cloud.sambanova.ai ↗ |
Sources for SambaNova Systems
Every source cited on this page, once each.
- reuters.comReuters
- datacenterdynamics.comDCD
- cloud.sambanova.aicloud.sambanova.ai
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