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Anthropic API vs Together AI

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio

Anthropic website ↗Together AI website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Together AI

Pay-as-you-go
Per-token pricing for serverless inference. No minimum.
$0 base (usage-based)
Dedicated Endpoints
Single-tenant GPU endpoints billed hourly.
$0 base (usage-based)
Batch API (50% off)
50% discount for async batch processing on most serverless models.
$0 base (usage-based)
Reserved GPU Clusters
6+ day commitments with discounted reserved rates.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Private deployments, VPC, SLAs, dedicated support.
Custom
Together AI website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs payg on Together AI.

MetricAnthropic APITogether AI
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Together AI · 14 features

    • Audio (ASR + TTS) — Whisper Large v3 + Cartesia Sonic-3.
    • Batch API — 50% discount for async processing.
    • Code Interpreter — LLM with integrated code execution.
    • Code Sandbox — Secure Python execution environment.
    • Dedicated Endpoints — Single-tenant GPU endpoints for consistent latency.
    • Embeddings — BGE + nomic + mxbai embedding models.
    • Fine-Tuning — LoRA + full fine-tune + DPO on Llama, Qwen, Mistral.
    • Image Generation — FLUX.2, SD3, Ideogram, etc.
    • OpenAI-Compat API — Drop-in OpenAI SDK replacement.
    • Private Deploy — Dedicated tenant + VPC.
    • Reranker — Rerank model for RAG retrieval refinement.
    • Reserved Clusters — Discounted GPU clusters for committed use.
    • Serverless Inference — 200+ open models. OpenAI-compatible API.
    • Video Generation — Veo 3.0, Kling 2.1, Vidu 2.0.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APITogether AI
    CLIClaude Code CLITogether CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)together-js, together-python
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat)
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