Together AI alternatives
Best catalog breadth for OSS models. Watch minimums and lifetime spend gates before you design around a gated…
Overall 8.2 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: cheap-volume-llm, open-model-inference, multi-model-router, finetune, lora-serving-distillation
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI Top pick for production open-model serving with real DX. Prefer over random GPU DIY when you want tokens not… | same_jtbd_pick, same_jtbd_runner · cheap-volume-llm, open-model-inference, finetune | 8.35high | +0.15 | 2026-09-14 |
| Predibase Alive. Prefer when you serve dozens of LoRA adapters on shared GPUs. Together/Fireworks remain simpler… | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · finetune, lora-serving-distillation | 7.89medium | -0.31 | 2026-09-14 |
| OpenRouter Best multi-model router for agents that need failover and experimentation. Pin providers in production; don’t… | same_jtbd_pick · multi-model-router | 8high | -0.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| Unsloth Depot OSS fine-tune default. Hosted LoRA → Predibase/Fireworks/Together; dead OpenPipe → do not resurrect… | same_jtbd_runner · finetune, lora-serving-distillation | 8.52high | +0.32 | 2026-09-14 |
| Groq Use when latency is the product. Do not build your whole company on one Groq model SKU — they rotate. | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-volume-llm, open-model-inference | 7.95high | -0.25 | 2026-09-14 |
| DeepInfra Budget open-model workhorse and one of the cheapest large-catalog hosts. Great for evals and high-volume… | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-volume-llm, open-model-inference | 7.95high | -0.25 | 2026-09-14 |
| Hugging Face Inference Perfect for Hub-native workflows and custom models. For hard production latency, graduate to… | same_jtbd_runner · open-model-inference, finetune | 7.95high | -0.25 | 2026-09-14 |
| Lightning AI Use when the team already lives in Lightning/PyTorch notebooks. Together/Unsloth remain Depot finetune… | same_jtbd_runner · finetune, lora-serving-distillation | 7.93high | -0.27 | 2026-09-14 |
| Chutes Budget open-model overflow with a now-pinned public TEE matrix. Depot open-model production pick stays… | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-volume-llm, open-model-inference | 7.29high | -0.91 | 2026-09-14 |
| Modal Depot darling for Python agent backends and bursty GPU jobs. If you think in functions not VMs, start here. | same_jtbd_runner · finetune | 8.44high | +0.24 | 2026-10-19 |
| Google AI (Gemini) Best value frontier stack and multimodal king. Use Flash for high-volume agent loops; Pro when quality… | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-volume-llm | 8.43high | +0.23 | 2026-10-19 |
| Portkey Depot pick for production AI gateway (fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets). OpenRouter when you want a model… | same_jtbd_runner · multi-model-router | 8.31high | +0.11 | 2026-09-14 |
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