OpenRouter vs Together AI
OpenRouter vs Together AI: side-by-side comparison of two inference platforms & gateways systems — architecture, taxonomy, license, pricing, MCP/A2A support, and direct edges.
How they relate
- OpenRouter integrates with Together AI — OpenRouter lists Together as an inference provider (providers API slug "together").
Cost & capability
| OpenRouter | Together AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost tier | searched not found | mid |
| $/Mtok input | searched not found | — |
| $/Mtok output | searched not found | — |
Where they differ (8)
Rows where both sides have data and the values disagree — the shortlist of dimensions that actually distinguish these two systems.
| OpenRouter | Together AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost tier | searched not found | mid |
| Type | Multi-provider LLM gateway | Inference + fine-tuning cloud |
| Created | 2023 | 2022 |
| Latest release | searched not found | v3.0.0 (2026-10-22) — together (Python SDK) |
| License | searched not found | proprietary; Python SDK Apache-2.0 |
| Pricing | searched not found | Serverless pay-per-token (e.g. $0.15–$3.00 per 1M input tokens); dedicated endpoints per GPU-hour (H100 $5.49/hr); fine-tuning per 1M training tokens; GPU clusters from $3.19–$3.99 per H100-hour |
| Funding | $40M Series A 2025-03 (Andreessen Horowitz + Menlo led). | $800M Series C 2026-07-01 (Aramco Ventures, NVIDIA, Vista Equity, General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and others); earlier rounds: $20M seed, $102.5M Series A, $305M Series B at $3.3B valuation |
| Deployment | searched not found | Managed-only — serverless and dedicated inference, fine-tuning, GPU clusters |
At a glance
| OpenRouter | Together AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Section | Inference platforms & gateways | Inference platforms & gateways |
| Tier | T1 | T1 |
| Type | Multi-provider LLM gateway | Inference + fine-tuning cloud |
| Created | 2023 | 2022 |
| Latest release | searched not found | v3.0.0 (2026-10-22) — together (Python SDK) |
| License | searched not found | proprietary; Python SDK Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub | searched not found | searched not found |
| Pricing | searched not found | Serverless pay-per-token (e.g. $0.15–$3.00 per 1M input tokens); dedicated endpoints per GPU-hour (H100 $5.49/hr); fine-tuning per 1M training tokens; GPU clusters from $3.19–$3.99 per H100-hour |
| Funding | $40M Series A 2025-03 (Andreessen Horowitz + Menlo led). | $800M Series C 2026-07-01 (Aramco Ventures, NVIDIA, Vista Equity, General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and others); earlier rounds: $20M seed, $102.5M Series A, $305M Series B at $3.3B valuation |
| Deployment | searched not found | Managed-only — serverless and dedicated inference, fine-tuning, GPU clusters |
| API surface | searched not found | searched not found |
| Multi-tenancy | searched not found | searched not found |
| MCP | searched not found | searched not found |
| A2A | searched not found | searched not found |
| OpenTelemetry | searched not found | searched not found |
| Optimised for | searched not found | searched not found |
| Anti-fit | searched not found | searched not found |
Pros & cons
OpenRouter
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Together AI
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