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LLM APIs · 9 alternatives · Together AI iScore 56 (#6/10)

Every LLM APIs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Together AI's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Together AI's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Google Gemini APIFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs No free offer61#1/10
  2. BasetenKind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer59#2/10
  3. Novita AIKind of free offer: Free tier vs No free offer57#3/10
  4. DeepInfraEntry paid plan: No minimum spend and no seat fees - billing is pay-per-token usage only, with no charge f…57#4/10
  5. OpenAIPricing model: Per million tokens, with a second rate above the short-context threshold — long-context i…56#5/10
  6. Fireworks AIKind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer51#7/10
  7. DeepSeekEntry paid plan: No entry plan — DeepSeek publishes one unified pricing standard for the API and states th…48#8/10
  8. AnthropicKind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer45#9/10
  9. xAIEntry paid plan: No plan fee: API usage is drawn from prepaid credits bought in the xAI Console, with mont…44#10/10

Where Together AI stands against these 9

Together AI's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier
No. 2 of the 7 alternatives that document it have one: Google Gemini API, Novita AI.
Input price, top model
$3.00 per million input tokens for Kimi K3, the most expensive model in the serverless chat table, with…Joint 6th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: Google Gemini API — $0.75 per million input tokens for Gemini 3.8 Flash through 31 December 2026, then $1.50.
Output price, top model
$15.00 per million output tokens for Kimi K3Joint 6th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $2.60 per million output tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
Input price, cheapest model
$0.09 per million input tokens for Qwen3.8 Flash, with output at $0.28 - the cheapest paid chat model on the…3rd cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $0.06 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with cached input at $0.015 and output at $0.18.
Context window
1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and V4 Flash 0731; 1,048,575 on GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.2…Joint 2nd highest of the 10 that document it. Highest: OpenAI — 1,050,000 tokens on gpt-6-astra.
H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
$3.99 per GPU-hour for an on-demand NVIDIA HGX H100 on GPU Clusters; preemptible is $1.99, and reserved falls…2nd cheapest of the 4 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $2.20 per GPU-hour for a dedicated H100 80GB — below every dedicated cloud in this dataset.
Largest GPU offered
280GB per GPU on a B300 or GB300 for dedicated inference, both priced by salesHighest of the 5 that document it. Next: DeepInfra — 270GB per GPU on a B300, at $4.89 per GPU-hour.

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