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Together AI vs Clerk

Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
vs. User management and authentication as a service

Together AI website ↗Clerk 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 ↗

Clerk

Free
50k MAU included. No SSO/SAML. Perfect for side projects and early prototypes.
Free
Pro
$25/mo (or $20/mo annual). 50k MAU, $0.02 each after. 1 enterprise SSO connection per app. Webhooks, JWT templates, custom session duration.
$25/mo
Business
$300/mo (or $250/mo annual). Advanced organizations, enhanced support, additional enterprise features.
$300/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume MAU discounts, SLA, workspace-wide SAML SSO, dedicated support.
Custom
Clerk website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Together AI vs hobby on Clerk.

MetricTogether AIClerk
mao—100 orgs/month
mau—50000 users/month
sso connections—0 connections

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.

Clerk · 15 features

  • Account Portal — Hosted sign-in/user profile pages at accounts.yourapp.com — zero UI code, fully …
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA integrated into sign-up.
  • Clerk Billing — Built-in Stripe-powered billing: subscriptions, plans, proration — ties directly…
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) — SAML and OIDC for enterprise customers. Per-domain connection. Pro+ (1 included)…
  • Impersonation — Act as a user from dashboard to debug. Logged.
  • JWT Templates — Custom JWT issuance for third-party backends (Supabase, Hasura, Firebase, Convex…
  • Machine Tokens (M2M) — API keys and machine tokens for service-to-service auth in addition to user sess…
  • Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP (authenticator apps), SMS OTP, backup codes. Forced or optional per user.
  • Organizations (B2B) — Multi-tenant orgs with roles, permissions, invitations, domain allowlist, and pe…
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn) — Passwordless passkey sign-in with per-device biometrics.
  • Prebuilt Components — Drop-in React components: <SignIn/>, <SignUp/>, <UserButton/>, <OrganizationSwit…
  • Sessions — Server-side session tokens. Sliding expiration by default; configurable absolute…
  • User Management — Full user CRUD, metadata (public/private/unsafe), email/phone verification, ban/…
  • Waitlist Mode — Collect sign-ups before opening the app. Approve waitlist entries to activate ac…
  • Webhooks — Events: user.created/updated/deleted, session.created, organization.* — delivere…

Developer interfaces

KindTogether AIClerk
CLITogether CLI—
SDKtogether-js, together-python@clerk/astro, @clerk/backend / @clerk/clerk-sdk-node, @clerk/chrome-extension, @clerk/clerk-expo, @clerk/clerk-js (vanilla), @clerk/clerk-react, @clerk/clerk-react-native, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/remix, clerk-sdk-go, clerk-sdk-python, clerk-sdk-ruby, @clerk/tanstack-start, @clerk/vue
RESTCode Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat)Backend REST API, Frontend API
MCP—Clerk MCP
OTHER—Webhooks (Svix)
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