Together AI API
Together AI's inference API for running open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Mixtral, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints for chat, completion, and embedding tasks.
Best When
An agent needs access to open-source LLMs via an OpenAI-compatible API at competitive pricing, especially for high-throughput or fine-tuned model inference.
Avoid When
You need the absolute fastest inference (Groq), or are limited to frontier proprietary models.
Use Cases
- • Running open-source LLMs with OpenAI-compatible API format
- • Generating embeddings for semantic search and RAG pipelines
- • Fine-tuning open-source models on custom datasets
- • High-throughput inference with open-source models at lower cost
- • Building agents that need diverse model options without vendor lock-in
Not For
- • Teams needing only proprietary frontier models (use OpenAI/Anthropic directly)
- • Sub-10ms inference requirements (for those, use Groq)
- • Teams without technical knowledge to evaluate open-source models
- • Applications requiring model output guarantees and SLAs
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