DeepSeek vs Together AI

Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.

DeepSeek

AI chat assistant and low-cost LLM API for consumers and developers

FreemiumVisit site

Together AI

Cloud for running, fine-tuning and scaling open-source AI models on GPUs

PaidVisit site

Choose DeepSeek if…

you want a free plan to start with
you work on iOS, Android
you're in its core audience: developers, ai app builders

Choose Together AI if…

you're in its core audience: ai startups, ml engineers

Side by side

FeatureD

DeepSeekT

Together AI

Pricing modelFreemiumPaid

Starting price——

Free plan

Free trial

API

Open source

Web search—

File upload & analysis—

Runs locally—

PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb, API

CategoryAI ChatbotsLLM APIs & Model Hosting

CompanyDeepSeekTogether AI

Full feature lists

D DeepSeek

Web chat at chat.deepseek.com
Mobile app and DeepSeek Harness desktop client
OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API
1M-token context window, 384K max output
Thinking mode with adjustable reasoning effort
Web search and page fetch through the API
Discounted pricing for cache hits and off-peak hours

T Together AI

Serverless pay-per-token inference for open-source models
Batch inference up to 30 billion tokens per model
Provisioned throughput with 99% uptime SLA
Dedicated single-tenant model and container endpoints
On-demand and reserved NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, B300 clusters
LoRA and full fine-tuning with SFT and DPO
Code sandboxes and code interpreter for agents
Managed storage with zero egress fees

Their home pages

What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.

DeepSeek home page — D DeepSeek · deepseek.com

Together AI home page — T Together AI · together.ai

What you'd pay

The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.

DeepSeek

ChatFree

deepseek-flash API$0.15/1M input tokens (cache miss, off-peak), $0.6/1M output tokens off-peak; peak rates are double

deepseek-v4-pro API$0.66/1M input tokens (cache miss, off-peak), $1.98/1M output tokens off-peak; peak rates are double

Search & Fetch$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests

Together AI

Serverless InferenceFrom $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens (gpt-oss-120B)

GPU Clusters (on-demand)$3.99/GPU-hour (H100)

Dedicated Inference$5.49/GPU-hour (H100)

Fine-tuningFrom $0.34 per 1M training tokens (Qwen3.5 9B SFT)

Provisioned ThroughputCustom

Price changes we've recorded

We re-read each pricing page every month and log what changed.

DeepSeek

Nov 5, 2026Pricing model: Paid → Freemium; New plan: Chat (Free)

Together AI

Nov 8, 2026Serverless Inference: $0 → $0.15; New plan: GPU Clusters (on-demand) ($3.99); New plan: Dedicated Inference ($5.49); New plan: Fine-tuning ($0.34); Provisioned Throughput: Per PTU per minute → Custom; Plan dropped: Dedicated Inference (On-demand); Plan dropped: Dedicated Inference (Reserved)