Together AI pricing details and 30 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180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time.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 rating does not lapse: it also rests on the free tier removal recorded 2025-08-31, a standing condition. The record effective 2026-10-07 stops counting on 2027-04-06, and the rating stays caution after that date.
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). Together deprecated Llama 3.3 70B (meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo) and removed it from serverless inference on 2026-10-22; Together's deprecations page (docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations) recommends meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B ($0.35/$1.50) or a dedicated endpoint instead. Together also removed deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 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. Together AI serverless serves Kimi K3 (moonshotai/Kimi-K3) at $3.00/$15.00 and Kimi K3.1 Pro (moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro) at $2.00/$10.00; 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 removed MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 and thinkingmachines/Inkling from serverless inference on 2026-11-06; its deprecations page recommends MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ($0.15/$0.60) and meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B ($1.25/$4.25). It removed Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on 2026-11-04 and recommends Qwen/Qwen3.7-Max ($2.50/$7.50); the old model is not offered on dedicated endpoints. 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 2026-10-26 from https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits, and our check recorded: the page names Together AI as "together ai" and states "$15" and "$5".
How Together AI compares against every one of the 30 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 |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe… |
stable |
| Google Gemini Embedding 2 | Free Free of charge text, image, audio, and video input on the Gemini API free tier, with Google using the content to improve its products. Batch is not available on the free tier. |
stable |
| Hugging Face | Free ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models. |
caution |
| OpenRouter | Free AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK. |
stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. |
caution |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1. |
stable |
| Keywords AI | Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts. |
source unconfirmed |
| LLM7.io | Free LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice. |
caution |
| Maxim AI | Free Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more. |
stable |
| Cohere | Free AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month. |
stable |
| Pinecone | Free Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress a month (reads that return data stop at the cap until the next billing period), 5 indexes, 1 project and 2 users, on AWS us-east-1 only. |
stable |
| Pollinations.AI | Free Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests. |
caution |
| Groq | Free Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day. |
caution |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,… |
stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI). |
stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video). |
source unconfirmed |
| SiliconFlow | Free Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR… |
unrated |
| Portkey | Free Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month. |
unrated |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started. |
unrated |
| Jina AI | Free Credits Search, Reader, embeddings and reranker APIs. Each new API key comes with 10M free tokens, shared across these APIs; no page says they renew. |
stable |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount. |
unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted. |
risky |
| Mistral AI | Pay-as-you-go Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. |
unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go Claude API with usage-based pricing per million tokens (input/output). Claude Fable 5.2 $8/$40. |
unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens). |
unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount. |
unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak. |
unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest. |
unrated |
| Ollama Cloud | Pay-as-you-go Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan. |
unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." |
source unconfirmed |
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