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Together AI vs LangSmith

Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Together AI websiteLangSmith 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

LangSmith

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 5,000 traces/month. 14-day retention. 1 seat. Basic evaluations.
Free
Plus
$39/seat/month. 10k base traces included ($2.50 per 1k overage). Full evaluations, custom dashboards, email support.
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Self-host option, SSO, custom retention, dedicated support.
Custom
LangSmith website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Together AI vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricTogether AILangSmith
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Together AI · 14 features

  • Audio (ASR + TTS)Whisper Large v3 + Cartesia Sonic-3.
  • Batch API50% discount for async processing.
  • Code InterpreterLLM with integrated code execution.
  • Code SandboxSecure Python execution environment.
  • Dedicated EndpointsSingle-tenant GPU endpoints for consistent latency.
  • EmbeddingsBGE + nomic + mxbai embedding models.
  • Fine-TuningLoRA + full fine-tune + DPO on Llama, Qwen, Mistral.
  • Image GenerationFLUX.2, SD3, Ideogram, etc.
  • OpenAI-Compat APIDrop-in OpenAI SDK replacement.
  • Private DeployDedicated tenant + VPC.
  • RerankerRerank model for RAG retrieval refinement.
  • Reserved ClustersDiscounted GPU clusters for committed use.
  • Serverless Inference200+ open models. OpenAI-compatible API.
  • Video GenerationVeo 3.0, Kling 2.1, Vidu 2.0.

LangSmith · 14 features

  • AlertsThreshold alerts on latency, cost, eval metrics.
  • Annotation QueuesHuman-review workflows for trace quality rating.
  • Custom DashboardsAggregate metrics dashboards per project/tag.
  • DatasetsCollect examples → use as eval sets or training data.
  • EvaluationsLLM-as-judge, embedding similarity, custom Python evaluators, offline batch eval
  • LangChain IntegrationAuto-trace any LangChain/LangGraph run with env var.
  • LangGraph IntegrationFirst-class trace + eval for LangGraph agents.
  • LLM TracingAutomatic trace every LLM call + tool call + chain step.
  • OpenTelemetry ExportExport traces as OTLP to Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.
  • PlaygroundTest prompts + models inline before deploying.
  • Prompt CanvasVisual prompt editor with live test + eval.
  • Prompt HubPublic + private prompt library with versioning.
  • Self-Hosted (Enterprise)Docker + k8s deployment in your infra.
  • Threads + SessionsGroup traces into conversational sessions.

Developer interfaces

KindTogether AILangSmith
CLITogether CLILangSmith CLI
SDKtogether-js, together-pythonlangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTCode Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat)LangSmith REST API
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERLangSmith Dashboard
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