Together AI pricing details and 28 free alternatives in AI / ML. Verified October 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-10-07, so it lapses on 2027-04-06 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion; embeddings_api — returns a vector for text or media so it can be compared to other vectors; the vector is the output, not a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.together.ai/pricing, where it says: “Chat Vision Image Audio Video Transcribe Embeddings Rerank Moderation” How we use this.
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Inference API for open-source models, billed per token… Together AI warrants caution — on 2026-10-07: Together AI raised the minimum first credit purchase from $5 to $15; later purchases can still be $5. Its billing docs said $5 in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-09-29 and have said $15 since the page was modified on 2026-10-07. Source: https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits Monitor for further changes.
Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid. gpt-oss-120B $0.15/$0.60 (per 1M tokens). Llama 3.3 70B (meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo) costs $1.04 per 1M input and output tokens until 2026-10-22, when Together removes it from serverless inference; Together's deprecations page (docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations) recommends meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B ($0.35/$1.50) or a dedicated endpoint instead. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (input $0.14, output $0.28 per 1M tokens) is also removed from serverless on 2026-10-22; its recommended replacement, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, costs $0.30/$1.20. DeepSeek V4 Pro is served today as deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 ($1.32/$3.96); the earlier ID deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro was removed on 2026-08-27. Kimi K3 (moonshotai/Kimi-K3, $3.00/$15.00) is the Kimi model Together serves today; moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code was removed on 2026-08-27, moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 on 2026-08-19 and moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 on 2026-05-21. Together also removed these models from serverless inference in 2026, so requests for them fail: openai/gpt-oss-20b on 2026-09-15 (Together recommends Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B); google/gemma-4-31B-it on 2026-09-15 (recommended: zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash); zai-org/GLM-5.1 on 2026-07-10; Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8 on 2026-06-04; deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 on 2026-05-14; deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 on 2026-05-14; meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 on 2026-03-31; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-03-06; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-02-25; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-02-06; meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct on 2026-02-06. Together's deprecations page says a model can still appear in catalog listings during a transition, and that the runtime API and that page are the source of truth.
We read that on 2026-10-02 from https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits, and our check recorded: the page names Together AI as "together ai" and states "$5".
How Together AI compares against every one of the 28 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | not_a_free_offer |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | stable |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| Pinecone | Free | stable |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | caution |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Google Gemini Embedding 2 | Pay-as-you-go | source unconfirmed |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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Look up Together AI programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
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"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Together AI",
"limit": 5
}
}