Crusoe vs Together AI

Crusoe — Infrastructure · Private · $10B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Together AI — Infrastructure · Private · $8.3B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Serverless Fine-Tuning and Together Fine-Tuning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 7 capabilities — Shares GPU cloud, model hosting, model inference and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service, developer tool and infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCrusoeTogether AI
Valuation$10B$8.3B Together AI has 17% less
Employees1,300350 Together AI has 3.7× fewer
Founded20182022 4 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAPI service, Developer tool, Hardware, Infrastructure serviceAPI service, Developer tool, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersDenver, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

GPU cloudModel hostingModel inferenceModel training

Not verified for Together AI · 3

AI compute hardwareEvaluation and observabilityServer systems

Recorded for Crusoe. Together AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Together AI has no capability Crusoe lacks, among the 4 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Crusoe

API service

Crusoe Managed InferenceAPI service

Hosted endpoints serving open-weight and customer-supplied models on Crusoe's own hardware, billed per token or as dedicated hourly deployments.

Serverless Fine-TuningAPI service

Managed LoRA-based fine-tuning of open-weight models, billed per token of training data rather than per GPU-hour.

Developer tool

Crusoe Command CenterDeveloper tool

Unified operations and observability console for GPU fleets running AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud.

Infrastructure service

Crusoe CloudInfrastructure service

GPU cloud running on Crusoe's own energy-colocated data centres, rented by the hour.

Crusoe Edge ZonesInfrastructure service

Crusoe Cloud GPU capacity delivered at edge and sovereign locations via prefabricated Crusoe Spark modular units.

Together AI

API service

Together Batch InferenceAPI service

Asynchronous bulk inference for workloads that do not need a real-time response, priced below Together's serverless rate.

Together Fine-TuningAPI service

A managed service for fine-tuning open-source models on a customer's own data and serving the result on Together's infrastructure.

Developer tool

Together Custom TrainingDeveloper tool

Custom model training service covering supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization, billed per token.

Infrastructure service

Together Dedicated Container InferenceInfrastructure service

Dedicated, reserved GPU containers for model inference with guaranteed performance, billed per GPU-hour.

Together GPU ClustersInfrastructure service

Reserved NVIDIA GPU clusters for training and large-scale inference.

No counterpart

Crusoe sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Together AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Hardware

Crusoe SparkHardware

Prefabricated modular AI data centre integrating power, cooling, fire suppression and GPU racks for deployment at a customer site.

Together AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Crusoe yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

Together InferenceModel API

Hosted API serving open-weight text, image and audio models, billed per token.