Together AI vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Together AI is cheaper on 3 of 9 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 5.
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
Google Vertex AI
Gemini plus 100+ models in Google Cloud's ML platform, with enterprise governance, grounding and tuning pipelines..
- Enterprise governance
- Grounding with Google Search
- Model Garden variety
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Together AI in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.050 / $0.200 | $0.075 / $0.300 | Together AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.180 / $0.590 | $0.250 / $0.700 | Together AI |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.270 / $0.850 | $0.350 / $1.15 | Together AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.600 / $1.70 | $0.600 / $1.70 | tie |
| Qwen3-Coder-480b-A35b-Instruct | $2.00 / $2.00 | $0.220 / $1.80 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $3.00 / $7.00 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Google Vertex AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.