Ollama vs Together AI

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

Ollama

Run open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows and Linux

Free · from $16.67/moVisit site

Together AI

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

PaidVisit site

Choose Ollama if…

you want a free plan to start with
you want open source you can self-host or audit
you work on macOS, Windows, Linux
you're in its core audience: developers, ai engineers

Choose Together AI if…

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

Side by side

FeatureO

OllamaT

Together AI

Pricing modelFreemiumPaid

Starting price$16.67/mo—

Free plan

Free trial

API

Open source

Trains AI on your contentNo—

Data retentionCloud prompts/responses processed transiently, not stored beyond request time—

GitHub stars185K—

Works fully offline—

Optional cloud models—

OpenAI-compatible API—

Apple Silicon acceleration—

Runs on CPU only—

Team admin / SSO—

PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux, APIWeb, API

CategoryLocal & Open ModelsLLM APIs & Model Hosting

CompanyOllamaTogether AI

Full feature lists

O Ollama

Run open models locally with unlimited usage
Cloud-hosted open models with pay-as-you-go token pricing
Off-peak discounted rates for some models
Tool calling support on compatible cloud models
Concurrent requests up to 10 on higher plans
API keys with per-key cost budgets (Enterprise)
Shared team billing and administration
Usage alert email at 90% of monthly allowance

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.

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.

Team size	Ollama	Together AI
1 person	$16.67 Pro	no published plan
5 people	$500 Team (early access)	no published plan
20 people	$500 Team (early access)	no published plan

What the free plans include

Ollama

Pay as you go: $0 subscription, pay per token for cloud models
3 concurrent requests
Running models on your own hardware is unlimited

Together AI

No free plan.

All plans and prices

Ollama

Free$0

Pro$20/mo or $200/yr ($16.67/mo billed annually)

Max$100/mo

Team (early access)$500/mo

EnterpriseCustom

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.

Ollama

No changes since we started tracking.

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)