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Together AI vs Anthropic API

Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
vs. API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning

Together AI website ↗Anthropic website ↗

Pricing tiers

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
Together AI website ↗

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Together AI vs opus-4-7 on Anthropic API.

MetricTogether AIAnthropic API
discount batch—50 % off

Features

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.

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Developer interfaces

    KindTogether AIAnthropic API
    CLITogether CLIClaude Code CLI
    SDKtogether-js, together-pythonGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)
    RESTCode Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat)AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)
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