Axiom vs Together AI
Observability for logs, traces, events — serverless-first, infinite scale
vs. Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
Pricing tiers
Axiom
Personal (Free)
No credit card. 500 GB/month ingest, 10 GB-hr compute, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention max.
Free
Axiom Cloud
$25/month minimum platform fee. Volume-based ingest + query credits. Always-free allowances: 1 TB/mo ingest, 100 GB-hr queries, 100 GB storage.
$25/mo
RBAC Add-on
+$50/month for role-based access control.
$50/mo
Audit Logs Add-on
+$50/month for audit logs.
$50/mo
Directory Sync Add-on
+$100/month for SCIM.
$100/mo
SSO Add-on
+$100/month for SAML SSO.
$100/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated cluster option, private connectivity, SLA.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing personal on Axiom vs payg on Together AI.
| Metric | Axiom | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| ingest gb month | 500 GB/month | — |
| query compute gb hr | 10 GB-hr/month | — |
| retention max days | 30 days | — |
| storage gb | 25 GB | — |
Features
Axiom · 15 features
- API Tokens — Scoped tokens for ingest or query.
- APL (query language) — Axiom Processing Language — Kusto-inspired pipes (`|`). Fast + expressive.
- AWS Lambda Extension — Native extension to ship Lambda logs + traces.
- Cloudflare Integration — Workers + Pages log drain. Log pull from any Cloudflare zone.
- Dashboards — Visualizations from APL queries: line/bar/pie/heatmap/table.
- Datasets — Logical partitions of data. Schema-free; fields auto-indexed.
- Elastic Bulk API compat — Elasticsearch Bulk API endpoint — drop-in replacement.
- Field Explorer — Auto-detected field stats, histograms, top-values per dataset.
- Monitors (alerts) — Threshold + anomaly-based alerting on APL queries. Route to Slack/PagerDuty/emai…
- next-axiom — Next.js logger with automatic correlation + Web Vitals capture.
- OpenTelemetry-native — Ingest OTLP/HTTP + gRPC. No proprietary agent.
- Saved Queries — Save + share APL queries as starters.
- Stream (live tail) — Live tail of incoming events with filter bar.
- Traces — OpenTelemetry-native. Distributed tracing across services.
- Vercel Integration — One-click: Vercel logs + Web Vitals → Axiom.
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
| Kind | Axiom | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Axiom CLI | Together CLI |
| SDK | axiom-go, @axiomhq/js, axiom-py, axiom-rs, next-axiom | together-js, together-python |
| REST | Axiom REST API, Ingest HTTP endpoint | Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat) |
| MCP | Axiom MCP | — |
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