Novita AI vs Together AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Novita AI is cheaper on 19 of 30 shared models (input or output price), Together AI on 1.
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
Together AI
High-performance open-weight inference (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen) on a custom stack, plus fine-tuning and GPU clusters. Consistently among the fastest and cheapest for open models.
- Top-tier open-model throughput
- Fine-tuning pipeline
- Dedicated endpoints and clusters
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Novita AI in/out | Together AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | $0.020 / $0.020 | $0.060 / $0.060 | Novita AI |
| Llama 3.2 3B | $0.030 / $0.050 | $0.060 / $0.060 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.040 / $0.150 | $0.050 / $0.200 | Novita AI |
| Llama-3-8b | $0.040 / $0.040 | $0.200 / $0.200 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.050 / $0.250 | $0.150 / $0.600 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.080 / $0.500 | $0.180 / $0.680 | Novita AI |
| GLM-4.5 Air | $0.130 / $0.850 | $0.200 / $1.10 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.140 / $0.280 | $0.140 / $0.280 | tie |
| Gemma 4 31B | $0.140 / $0.400 | $0.390 / $0.970 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.50 | tie |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.50 | tie |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | $0.150 / $0.150 | $1.60 / $1.60 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.180 / $0.590 | $0.180 / $0.590 | tie |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | $0.200 / $1.50 | $0.500 / $1.20 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.270 / $1.00 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Novita AI |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| Qwen3-Coder-480b-A35b-Instruct | $0.380 / $1.55 | $2.00 / $2.00 | Novita AI |
| GLM-4.6 | $0.550 / $2.20 | $0.600 / $2.20 | Novita AI |
| GLM-4.7 | $0.600 / $2.20 | $0.450 / $2.00 | Together AI |
| Kimi K2 | $0.600 / $2.50 | $1.00 / $3.00 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | $0.600 / $3.60 | $0.600 / $3.60 | tie |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.800 / $3.40 | $1.20 / $4.50 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.800 / $0.800 | $2.00 / $2.00 | Novita AI |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | $0.800 / $0.800 | $1.95 / $8.00 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.890 / $0.890 | $1.25 / $1.25 | Novita AI |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.950 / $4.00 | tie |
| GLM-5 | $1.00 / $3.20 | $1.00 / $3.20 | tie |
| Qwen3.7 Max | $1.25 / $3.75 | $1.50 / $4.50 | Novita AI |
| GLM-5.1 | $1.38 / $4.40 | $1.40 / $4.40 | Novita AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.