Together AI API

LLM 7.5/10

Open models per-token: Qwen3.6-Plus $0.50/$3.00, DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74, Llama from $0.10/M; Batch API 50% off; serverless + dedicated

Together AI API scores 7.5/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Pay-as-you-go, from $0.10/M. Open models per-token: Qwen3.6-Plus $0.50/$3.00, DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74, Llama from $0.10/M; Batch API 50% off; serverless + dedicated.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan

Free value score

7.5 / 10

Show the math

Model Quality 8/10

value = 44 artificial_analysis_score

weighted score = 0.2 * 8/10

Access 10/10

value = 10/10

weighted score = 0.1 * 10/10

Price Efficiency 7/10

value = 10000000 tok/$

weighted score = 0.7 * 7/10

Key metrics

DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) 44 Best model

$0.1/M Price

What you get

Paid — Pay-as-you-go, from $0.10/M. Open models per-token: Qwen3.6-Plus $0.50/$3.00, DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74, Llama from $0.10/M; Batch API 50% off; serverless + dedicated

~10M tokens/$1 on small models; ~2M input/$1 on Qwen3.6-Plus; Batch halves it again

Gotchas

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Sources

"Price per 1M tokens Batch API price DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74 $0.20. Qwen3.6-Plus $0.50 $3.00."
https://www.together.ai/pricing
"In reasoning mode, DeepSeek V3.2 scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepseek-v32-2-most-intelligent-open-weights-model-qnwoc

paid value llm-providers

Open service ← All LLM

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