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E2BMost similar to Together AI in what it does, its category and its price.
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ModalHas a free plan, rated 4.5 out of 5.
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Surge AIRated 4.3 out of 5 in our review, against 4.3 for Together AI.
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At a glance
Green means better than Together AI, red means worse. Prices are starting prices per month.
| Tool | Our rating | Starts at | Free plan | Best for | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Together AIBaseline | 4.3 | Free | Yes | Crossed $1.15B in annual bookings, serving Cursor and Cognition among its customers | |
| E2B | 4.2−0.1 | Free | Yes | Sandboxed cloud environments now used by 88% of the Fortune 100 | vs Together AI |
| Modal | 4.5+0.2 | Free | Yes | Serverless cloud platform for running AI workloads, with GPU inference, fine-tuning and training, sandboxes for agents, batch jobs and multi-node clusters, billed per second with $30 of free compute a month. | vs Together AI |
 Falcon LLM | 4.1−0.2 | Free | Yes | Open-source large language model family built by Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute. | vs Together AI |
 Venice | 4.1−0.2 | Free | Yes | Became a privacy-focused unicorn on $65M, encrypting data client-side by default | vs Together AI |
 Qubrid AI | 3.7−0.6 | Not listed | No | H200s, B200s and serverless inference on an open-source platform. | vs Together AI |
 Arize | 4.2−0.1 | Not listed | No | Grew from traditional ML monitoring into a $1B+ AI engineering platform for evaluating agents in production | vs Together AI |
| Surge AI | 4.3Same | Not listed | No | Reached $1B+ ARR bootstrapped, with zero venture funding until mid-2025 | vs Together AI |
 CoreWeave | 4.3Same | Not listed | No | GPU cloud that IPO'd in 2025 and now powers training runs for OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta | vs Together AI |
The alternatives in detail
In order of how closely each one matches Together AI.
E2B
4.2Free
vs Together AI−0.1
Sandboxed cloud environments now used by 88% of the Fortune 100.
- Isolated cloud sandboxes for AI agents to execute code safely
- Full development environments an agent can run and test inside
- 88% of Fortune 100 companies reported using E2B's infrastructure
Isolates agent-executed code away from production systems and infrastructure
Usage-based compute pricing can add up for high-concurrency agent workloads
Modal
4.5Free
vs Together AI+0.2
Serverless cloud platform for running AI workloads, with GPU inference, fine-tuning and training, sandboxes for agents, batch jobs and multi-node clusters, billed per second with $30 of free compute a month.
- Serverless GPU inference with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- Fine-tuning, LoRA and reinforcement learning on GPUs with fast start times
- Sandboxes for coding agents and untrusted code
$30 of free compute each month on the Starter plan
Per-second pricing needs estimating for real workloads
Falcon LLM
4.1Free
vs Together AI−0.2
Open-source large language model family built by Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute.
- Full family of open-weight models from 1B to 180B parameters
- Falcon 3 series with 30 checkpoints optimized for lighter, on-device hardware
- Falcon-H1 hybrid architecture models alongside standard transformer variants
Genuinely open weights, not only an open API, enabling full self-hosted deployment
Falcon models have not consistently led open-model leaderboards against Meta's Llama or Mistral's releases over time
Venice
4.1Free
vs Together AI−0.2
Became a privacy-focused unicorn on $65M, encrypting data client-side by default.
- Client-side encryption with no user data stored on Venice's own servers
- Access to a range of AI models through one privacy-focused platform
- 3 million-plus active users and 850,000-plus monthly visitors
Privacy built into the architecture itself, not added as an optional feature
Paid tiers required for full encryption and higher usage limits
Qubrid AI
3.7Not listed
vs Together AI−0.6
H200s, B200s and serverless inference on an open-source platform.
- Serverless API inference with no infrastructure to manage
- GPU VMs on H200, B200 and H100 with SSH access
- Auto-stop to prevent idle GPU billing
Auto-stop guards against the most expensive mistake in rented compute
Model catalogue leans heavily on Chinese open-weight families
Arize
4.2Not listed
vs Together AI−0.1
Grew from traditional ML monitoring into a $1B+ AI engineering platform for evaluating agents in production.
- Started in traditional ML drift and performance monitoring before expanding to LLMs
- Open-source Arize Phoenix framework for generative AI observability
- LLM evaluation and prompt versioning through a Prompt Hub
Covers both traditional ML monitoring and generative AI evaluation in one platform
Enterprise pricing isn't published, so budgeting requires a sales conversation
Surge AI
4.3Not listed
vs Together AISame
Reached $1B+ ARR bootstrapped, with zero venture funding until mid-2025.
- Data annotation and reinforcement learning from human feedback for AI training
- Network of roughly 50,000 expert contributors worldwide
- Reached $1.2B in annualized revenue entirely bootstrapped, no funding until 2025
Trusted by nearly every major frontier AI lab for training data quality
Quote-based pricing requires a sales conversation, no published self-serve rates
CoreWeave
4.3Not listed
vs Together AISame
GPU cloud that IPO'd in 2025 and now powers training runs for OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta.
- Large-scale NVIDIA GPU clusters purpose-built for AI training and inference
- On-demand GPU-hour pricing alongside reserved-capacity contracts
- Publicly traded on NASDAQ since March 2025 (CRWV)
Dedicated AI-cloud focus avoids competing with general hyperscaler workloads for GPU capacity
GPU-hour pricing scales fast at the training volumes CoreWeave targets
FAQ
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Is Together AI free?
Together AI has a free plan.
What is the best free alternative to Together AI?
Modal is the highest-rated alternative here with a free plan (4.5 out of 5). Other free options: E2B, Falcon LLM, Venice.
How did you pick these alternatives?
We match tools on what they do, their category and their price, using the details in our directory. Ratings come from our reviews and reader reviews.