Fireworks AI vs Together AI
Both run on DeepSeek, GLM, GPT, Llama, Mistral.
Relationship
Fireworks Training and Together Fine-Tuning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).
Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.
3 of 5 capabilities — Shares model hosting, model inference and model training.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship API service and model API.
Ludbee product recordsSmaller scale — Together AI: $8.3B valuation, against Fireworks AI's $17.5B valuation.
Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimateAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 3
Not verified for Together AI · 2
Recorded for Fireworks AI. Together AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Not verified for Fireworks AI · 1
Recorded for Together AI. Fireworks AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Products, side by side
Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked
Fireworks AI
API service
Serving for frontier open models and for a customer's own post-trained versions of them, on an inference engine tuned at each layer.
Real-time and batch speech-to-text on Fireworks, aimed at voice workflows that need low-latency transcription at scale.
Training and retraining of custom models on Fireworks, offered across several training surfaces and served on the same platform.
Model API
Drop-in API endpoint that routes each request across models to trade cost against quality.
Together AI
API service
Asynchronous bulk inference for workloads that do not need a real-time response, priced below Together's serverless rate.
A managed service for fine-tuning open-source models on a customer's own data and serving the result on Together's infrastructure.
Model API
Hosted API serving open-weight text, image and audio models, billed per token.
No counterpart
Together AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Fireworks AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
Developer tool
Custom model training service covering supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization, billed per token.
Infrastructure service
Dedicated, reserved GPU containers for model inference with guaranteed performance, billed per GPU-hour.
Reserved NVIDIA GPU clusters for training and large-scale inference.