Together AI vs Replicate
Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
vs. Run and fine-tune AI models in the cloud — pay-per-second GPU
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
Replicate
Pay-as-you-go
Per-second GPU billing. No minimum. Public models billed by processing time or tokens.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated capacity, private deployments, SOC2, HIPAA on request.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing payg on Together AI vs payg on Replicate.
| Metric | Together AI | Replicate |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
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.
Replicate · 11 features
- 10k+ Models — Public catalog of image, video, audio, LLM, embedding, speech models.
- Batch Predictions — Parallel batch execution.
- Cog — OSS tool to containerize ML models. Standard for Replicate.
- Deployments — Private model endpoints with dedicated GPUs.
- File Storage — Temporary output file hosting.
- Fine-Tuning — Fine-tune FLUX, SDXL, Llama 2/3 with your data.
- Per-Second Billing — Pay only while model runs. No idle cost for public models.
- Playground — Interactive UI for every public model.
- Predictions API — Async + sync + streaming predictions.
- Streaming Outputs — SSE streaming for LLMs + audio.
- Webhooks — Notify when predictions complete.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Together AI | Replicate |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Together CLI | Cog (package models) |
| SDK | together-js, together-python | replicate-go, replicate (Node), replicate-python |
| REST | Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat) | Replicate REST API |
| MCP | — | Replicate MCP |
| OTHER | — | Webhooks |
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