Together AI vs Vercel

Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
vs. Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web frameworks

Together AI website ↗Vercel website ↗

Pricing tiers

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 ↗

Vercel

Hobby (Free)

Free forever. 100 GB bandwidth, 1M functions, 360 GB-hrs memory, 1M edge requests. 1 developer. Hard caps.

Free

Pro

$20/user/month. 1 TB bandwidth, pay-as-you-go overages. Team seats, concurrent builds.

$20/mo

Enterprise

Custom pricing. SLA, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support.

Custom

Vercel website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Together AI vs hobby on Vercel.

Metric	Together AI	Vercel
bandwidth gb month	—	100 GB/month
edge requests	—	1000000 requests/month
function invocations	—	1000000 invocations/month
memory gb hrs	—	360 GB-hrs/month
team members	—	1 users

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.

Vercel · 15 features

Cron Jobs — Scheduled serverless functions. JSON config in vercel.json.
Edge Functions — V8-isolate serverless functions at edge locations. Lower cold start than Lambda.
Edge Middleware — Intercept requests at edge before hitting origin — auth, routing, A/B tests.
Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket on every push. Preview URLs for every…
Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize, format conversion (AVIF, WebP), CDN caching.
Incremental Static Regeneration — Re-generate static pages on-demand or via revalidate. Next.js-native.
Log Drains — Stream logs to Datadog, Axiom, Logtail, HTTP endpoints.
Preview Deployments — Unique URL per Git branch/PR. Password-protect or share. Infinite.
Serverless Functions — Node.js, Python, Go. AWS Lambda under the hood. Up to 15 min duration.
Speed Insights — Real User Monitoring. FCP, LCP, CLS, INP per page.
Vercel Blob — Managed object storage (S3-compatible API).
Vercel KV (Redis) — Managed Redis via Upstash. Edge-accessible.
Vercel Marketplace — One-click integrations: Supabase, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Resend, 100+ services.
Vercel Postgres — Managed Neon Postgres. Edge-accessible with @vercel/postgres.
Web Analytics — Privacy-friendly web analytics. Core Web Vitals, visitors, pages.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Together AI	Vercel
CLI	Together CLI	Vercel CLI
SDK	together-js, together-python	@vercel/client
REST	Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat)	Vercel REST API
MCP	—	Vercel MCP
OTHER	—	Edge Runtime Bindings

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