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OpenRouter vs Together AI

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

OOpenRouterFreemiumVisit site
TTogether AIPaidVisit site
VS
O

Choose OpenRouter if…

  • you want a free plan to start with
  • you're in its core audience: software developers, ai app and agent builders
T

Choose Together AI if…

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

Side by side

Feature OpenRouter Together AI
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyOpenRouterTogether AI
Full feature lists

O OpenRouter

  • OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint
  • Access to 600+ models from 80+ providers
  • Automatic fallbacks around provider outages and rate limits
  • Image, video, text-to-speech and speech-to-text endpoints
  • Bring your own provider keys
  • Budgets, spend controls and activity log export
  • EU and US in-region routing
  • Hosted MCP server for agent tooling

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.

OpenRouter home page
O OpenRouter · openrouter.ai
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.

OpenRouter

FreeFree
Standard5.5% fee on credit purchases
Business8% fee on credit purchases
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.

OpenRouter

  1. Nov 8, 2026Standard: Pay-as-you-go, 5.5% fee on credit purchases → 5.5% fee on credit purchases; Business: Pay-as-you-go, 8% fee on credit purchases → 8% fee on credit purchases

Together AI

  1. 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)

Strengths and limitations

OpenRouter

  • No markup on provider token prices
  • Free plan with 25+ free models
  • BYOK fee-free up to $25,000 of monthly inference
  • Payment by card, AliPay or USDC
  • 5.5–8% platform fee on credit purchases
  • Free plan limited to 50 requests per day
  • SSO/SAML and SLAs only on Enterprise

Together AI

  • Large catalog of open-source models across text, image, audio and video
  • Published per-token and per-GPU-hour prices
  • Path from serverless to dedicated and reserved capacity
  • Managed storage has no egress fees
  • Reserved GPU and dedicated capacity require contacting sales
  • Fine-tuning jobs carry minimum charges (e.g. $4–$60)
  • Usage-based billing makes monthly costs harder to predict

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FTogether AI vs Fireworks AIRTogether AI vs ReplicateGTogether AI vs Groq

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Fireworks AI websiteF

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Replicate websiteR

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Developer Tools & APIsAPI
G
Groq websiteG

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Groq website
Freemium
G

Groq

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LLM APIs & Model HostingFree planAPI
D
DeepSeek websiteD

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DeepSeek

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

AI ChatbotsFree planAPI
M
Mistral websiteM

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Free, from $14.99/mo
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Local & Open ModelsFree planAPIOpen source
O
Ollama websiteO

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Ollama website
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Ollama

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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 8, 2026. Editorial policy