Baseten vs Together AI
Both Baseten and Together AI let you run open-source AI models in the cloud, but Baseten’s enterprise-grade platform wins when performance, control, and mission-critical reliability matter.
How Baseten is different than Together AI
Better performance
There's a reason why Together AI compares itself to vLLM. Check OpenRouter for the latest metrics for popular models, the numbers speak for themselves.
No black boxes
With Baseten, you can always lift the hood and see exactly what optimizations your models use. Plus, you have full control over deployments and scaling via the UI and CLI.
Mission-critical reliability
Baseten uses Multi-cloud Capacity Management across 9+ clouds to maintain 99.99% uptime regardless of demand, capacity constraints, or hardware failures.
Model Performance
Support for different inference frameworks
Custom fork of TensorRT-LLM
White-glove engineering support
Modality-specific runtimes
The fastest speculation engine
Structured outputs and tool use
Custom inference kernels
Optimized serverless model APIs
Support for different inference frameworks
Custom fork of TensorRT-LLM
White-glove engineering support
Modality-specific runtimes
The fastest speculation engine
Structured outputs and tool use
Custom inference kernels
Optimized serverless model APIs
Inference-optimized Infrastructure
Multi-cloud capacity management
>99.99% uptime
Optimized cold starts
Intelligent request routing
Protocol flexibility
Unlimited scaling
On-demand compute access
Multi-cloud capacity management
>99.99% uptime
Optimized cold starts
Intelligent request routing
Protocol flexibility
Unlimited scaling
On-demand compute access
Security and enterprise-readiness
Hands-on user control over deployments
Transparent optimization stack
Single-tenant clusters
Self-hosting
Self-hosted with spillover capacity
Full control over data residency
Volume discounts on compute
SOC 2 Type II
HIPAA
GDPR
Hands-on user control over deployments
Transparent optimization stack
Single-tenant clusters
Self-hosting
Self-hosted with spillover capacity
Full control over data residency
Volume discounts on compute
SOC 2 Type II
HIPAA
GDPR
Developer Experience
Self-manage 100s to 1000s of models
Fine-grained logging and observability
Framework for compound AI systems
Deploy custom Docker servers
Deploy single models
Self-manage 100s to 1000s of models
Fine-grained logging and observability
Framework for compound AI systems
Deploy custom Docker servers
Deploy single models
Product support
Dedicated Deployments
Model APIs
Training
Virtual machines
Dedicated Deployments
Model APIs
Training
Virtual machines
When you should use Baseten or Together AI
Choose Baseten for:
- Leading model performance
- 99.99% uptime
- White-glove engineering support
Our team spent weeks researching and vetting inference providers. It was a thorough process and we confidently believe Baseten was a clear winner. Baseten has helped us abstract away so much of the complexity of AI model deployments and MLOps. On Baseten, things just work out of the box - this has saved us countless engineering hours. It’s made a huge difference in our productivity as a team - most of our engineers have experience now in training and deploying models on Baseten. Every time we start an ML project, we think about how quickly we can get things going through Baseten.
Baseten cut our P95 latency by 80% across the dozens of fine-tuned embedding models that power core features in Superhuman's AI-native email app. Superhuman is all about saving time. With Baseten, we're delivering a faster product for our customers while reducing engineering time spent on infrastructure.
Loïc Houssier,
CTO
Our team spent weeks researching and vetting inference providers. It was a thorough process and we confidently believe Baseten was a clear winner. Baseten has helped us abstract away so much of the complexity of AI model deployments and MLOps. On Baseten, things just work out of the box - this has saved us countless engineering hours. It’s made a huge difference in our productivity as a team - most of our engineers have experience now in training and deploying models on Baseten. Every time we start an ML project, we think about how quickly we can get things going through Baseten.
Baseten cut our P95 latency by 80% across the dozens of fine-tuned embedding models that power core features in Superhuman's AI-native email app. Superhuman is all about saving time. With Baseten, we're delivering a faster product for our customers while reducing engineering time spent on infrastructure.
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