Compare RunPod vs. Together AI

RunPod provides a cloud infrastructure that enables seamless deployment and scaling of AI workloads with GPU-powered pods. By offering access to a wide array of NVIDIA GPUs, such as the A100 and H100, RunPod supports training and deploying machine learning models with minimal latency and high performance. The platform emphasizes ease of use, allowing users to spin up pods in seconds and scale them dynamically to meet demand. With features like autoscaling, real-time analytics, and serverless scaling, RunPod is an ideal solution for startups, academic institutions, and enterprises seeking a flexible, powerful, and affordable platform for AI development and inference.

Together AI offers a cloud platform purpose-built for developers creating AI-native applications, providing optimized GPU infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and inference at unprecedented scale. Its environment is engineered to remain stable even as customers push workloads to trillions of tokens, ensuring seamless reliability in production. By continuously improving inference runtime performance and GPU utilization, Together AI delivers a cost-effective foundation for companies building frontier-level AI systems. The platform features a rich model library including open-source, specialized, and multimodal models for chat, image generation, video creation, and coding tasks. Developers can replace closed APIs effortlessly through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Innovations such as ATLAS, FlashAttention, Flash Decoding, and Mixture of Agents highlight Together AI’s strong research contributions. Instant GPU clusters allow teams to scale from prototypes to distributed workloads in minutes. AI-native companies rely on Together AI to break performance barriers and accelerate time to market.