Pick FriendliAI if
inference teams who will start on Model APIs (pay per token) and only open Dedicated when they need a pinned H100 at $5/hr — not a team looking for a $20 chat plan.
Read the FriendliAI pageFriendliAI vs Together AI
Our take
Pick FriendliAI if inference teams who will start on Model APIs (pay per token) and only open Dedicated when they need a pinned H100 at $5/hr — not a team looking for a $20 chat plan. Pick Together AI if developers who want one HTTP call to Llama/Qwen/DeepSeek-class models and will read the per-model row. Skip Together AI if people who want a local engine (vLLM, Ollama) or a single Flux playground with a per-image
Together AI
hosted inference (and fine-tune) platform
Best for
FriendliAI Serve tokens (or audio seconds) on published $/hr or per-token rates
Together AI Pay for open-model tokens without standing up a GPU
Free plan
FriendliAI No free plan
Together AI No free plan
Lowest paid
FriendliAI Dedicated on-demand $4.0
Together AI Ternary Bonsai 27B $0.00
Next step up
FriendliAI
Together AI Tev1 4B Experimental $0.04
Runs where
FriendliAI
Together AI Hosted
Watch out
FriendliAI Model API token dollars are per-model and JS-rendered
Together AI You are billed per token (or per dedicated GPU), not $20/month chat
Last checked
FriendliAI 2026-10-22 · friendli.ai/pricing
Together AI 2026-10-20 · together.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Together AI if
developers who want one HTTP call to Llama/Qwen/DeepSeek-class models and will read the per-model row.
Read the Together AI page