Together AI vs Yandex

Together AI — Infrastructure · Private · $8.3B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Together Dedicated Container Inference and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Yandex'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 of 4 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares model hosting, model inference and model training.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

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

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldTogether AIYandex
Size$8.3B valuationnot disclosed
Employees35036,991 Yandex has 106× more
Founded20221997 25 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerAPI service, Developer tool, Infrastructure service, Model APIAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Model hostingModel inferenceModel training

Not verified for Yandex · 1

GPU cloud

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

Not verified for Together AI · 15

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionImage generationKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechTranslationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. Together 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

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.

Yandex

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

No counterpart

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

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.

Model API

Together InferenceModel API

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

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

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.