Replicate vs Together AI
A side-by-side comparison of Replicate and Together AI, two Inference tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Replicate
Any model is a Cog container behind one API billed per second — the low-commitment way to ship a model you didn't train.
- Image, video, audio, and language models
- No idle cost, no infra to manage
- Cog packaging for custom deploys
- Fine-tuning supported
- Cold starts on less-popular models
- Per-second cost adds up at scale
- Less control than raw GPU rental
Together AI
One stop for the open-model stack: hundreds of open-weights models served plus both LoRA and full fine-tuning.
- LoRA and full fine-tuning
- Competitive inference-at-scale pricing
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Dedicated endpoints + GPU clusters
- Open models only, no frontier closed models
- Less specialized than single-model hosts
- Throughput varies by model demand