Together AI vs Vast.ai

Together AI — Infrastructure · Private · Late-stage · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Vast.ai — Infrastructure · Private · Undisclosed

Relationship

Together GPU Clusters and Vast.ai Clusters do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and train or fine-tune a model; Vast.ai's scale not recorded.

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

3 shared capabilitiesShared product type

3 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list GPU cloud, model inference and model training.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldTogether AIVast.ai
StageLate-stageUndisclosed
Founded2022—
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAPI service, Developer tool, Infrastructure service, Model APIInfrastructure service
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAUSA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

GPU cloudModel inferenceModel training

Not verified for Vast.ai · 1

Model hosting

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

Vast.ai has no capability Together AI lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

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

Together AI

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.

Vast.ai

Infrastructure service

Vast.ai ClustersInfrastructure service

Dedicated GPU and CPU clusters for frequent AI, ML and HPC training runs, scaled from tens to hundreds of GPUs, with custom networking and storage, utilisation and cost dashboards, enterprise SLAs and specialist support, arranged through sales.

Vast.ai GPU CloudInfrastructure service

Marketplace for renting GPUs (RTX 3060 to B200 across 68+ types) with on-demand, interruptible and reserved terms billed per second, driven from a web console, API, CLI or Python SDK.

Vast.ai ServerlessInfrastructure service

Autoscaling GPU endpoints for AI inference on the Vast.ai fleet: workers are provisioned from load predictions, with a reserve pool for fast cold starts, defined from the Python SDK, CLI or API and billed per second at the platform's GPU rates.

No counterpart

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

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.

Model API

Together InferenceModel API

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