Qdrant vs Together AI
Rust-based vector DB — high performance, OSS, managed cloud
vs. Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
Pricing tiers
Qdrant
Free Forever
Single-node 0.5 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 4 GB disk. Free cloud inference models.
Free
Standard
Usage-based. Dedicated resources, flexible scaling. 99.5% SLA. Backups + DR. Free inference tokens.
$0 base (usage-based)
Self-Host (OSS)
Apache 2.0 licensed. Run for free.
$0 base (usage-based)
Hybrid Cloud (BYOC)
Run managed cluster on your infra. Data stays in your network.
Custom
Premium
Min spend required. SSO + private VPC links. 99.9% SLA. 24x7 enterprise support.
Custom
Private Cloud
Dedicated + isolated. Custom SLA. Large enterprise.
Custom
Together AI
Pay-as-you-go
Per-token pricing for serverless inference. No minimum.
$0 base (usage-based)
Dedicated Endpoints
Single-tenant GPU endpoints billed hourly.
$0 base (usage-based)
Batch API (50% off)
50% discount for async batch processing on most serverless models.
$0 base (usage-based)
Reserved GPU Clusters
6+ day commitments with discounted reserved rates.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Private deployments, VPC, SLAs, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Qdrant vs payg on Together AI.
| Metric | Qdrant | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Qdrant · 13 features
- BYOC (Hybrid Cloud) — Managed Qdrant in your cloud account.
- Cloud Inference — Hosted embedding models for free tokens.
- Cluster Monitoring — Prometheus metrics + health.
- Collections — Typed collections with named vectors + payload schema.
- Distributed — Horizontal sharding + Raft replication.
- Hybrid Search — Sparse + dense + keyword in one query.
- Multi-Vector — Multiple vectors per point (text + image, etc.).
- Open Source — Apache 2.0 licensed.
- Payload Filters — Rich filter DSL with indexed fields.
- Quantization — Scalar + product + binary for memory reduction.
- RBAC — API-key scopes + roles.
- Snapshots + Restore — Backup + DR primitives.
- Sparse Vectors — BM25 + SPLADE sparse embeddings natively.
Together AI · 14 features
- Audio (ASR + TTS) — Whisper Large v3 + Cartesia Sonic-3.
- Batch API — 50% discount for async processing.
- Code Interpreter — LLM with integrated code execution.
- Code Sandbox — Secure Python execution environment.
- Dedicated Endpoints — Single-tenant GPU endpoints for consistent latency.
- Embeddings — BGE + nomic + mxbai embedding models.
- Fine-Tuning — LoRA + full fine-tune + DPO on Llama, Qwen, Mistral.
- Image Generation — FLUX.2, SD3, Ideogram, etc.
- OpenAI-Compat API — Drop-in OpenAI SDK replacement.
- Private Deploy — Dedicated tenant + VPC.
- Reranker — Rerank model for RAG retrieval refinement.
- Reserved Clusters — Discounted GPU clusters for committed use.
- Serverless Inference — 200+ open models. OpenAI-compatible API.
- Video Generation — Veo 3.0, Kling 2.1, Vidu 2.0.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Qdrant | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Together CLI |
| SDK | go-client, java-client, qdrant-client (py), qdrant-client (rust), qdrant-dotnet, @qdrant/js-client-rest | together-js, together-python |
| REST | Qdrant REST API | Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat) |
| MCP | Qdrant MCP | — |
| OTHER | Qdrant gRPC | — |
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