Together AI vs PowerGPU at a glance
Together AI
Inference and fine-tuning API, plus dedicated GPU Clusters on H100, H200, B200
PowerGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| Together AI | PowerGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Hourly per GPU on Clusters; serverless inference billed per token instead | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Card; platform is prepaid with a $5 minimum credit purchase | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | Account signup; a card is required to fund the prepaid balance | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses |
| Free credit | No general signup credit confirmed at time of check; a startup program grants up to $50,000 for qualifying companies | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead |
| Cheaper tier | Preemptible around −50%; reserved from 7 to 180+ days, progressively cheaper | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | Not broken out on the pricing page | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | Dedicated Inference priced by 8-GPU HGX node; GPU Clusters quoted and billed per GPU | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | Not published on the pricing page | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Not published on the pricing page | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | Inference API, fine-tuning API, GPU Clusters (Slurm/Kubernetes), CLI and SDK | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
Together AI column: as published on together.ai on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.
Together AI vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Together AI's pricing page (2026-09-04) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.
| GPU | Together AI list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 SXM GPU Clusters on-demand, HGX H100 SXM, promotional rate (list $5.49) | $3.99 | $1.428 | $0.714 | −64% on PowerGPU |
| H200 GPU Clusters on-demand, HGX H200 SXM | $5.99 | $2.791 | $1.395 | −53% on PowerGPU |
| B200 GPU Clusters on-demand, HGX B200 | $8.19 | $5.425 | $2.712 | −34% on PowerGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Together AI price is quoted. Negative differences mean Together AI is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with Together AI
- Inference, fine-tuning and serving are your actual product, not raw GPU access — Together's managed model layer is more built-out than anything PowerGPU offers.
- You need hundreds to thousands of H100/H200/B200 GPUs on a reserved, sales-negotiated contract with InfiniBand.
- A 91+ day reservation already prices your H100 at $3.19/hr or below, close to a fixed-price on-demand card.
Why teams switch to PowerGPU
- Self-serve on-demand price: PowerGPU fixes the H100 SXM at the public market median × 0.70, against Together's promotional $3.99/hr (list $5.49) with no reservation required.
- No prepaid-credit gate: PowerGPU has no $5 minimum purchase or card-on-file requirement — top up in crypto and the balance draws down per second.
- Consumer and workstation cards Together does not sell at all: RTX 5090, 4090, 3090, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000.
- A single GPU in about 30 seconds instead of a cluster allocation; interruptible here is a flat −50%, not a separate preemptible SKU with its own provisioning.
Switching from Together AI: what maps to what
| On Together AI | On PowerGPU |
|---|---|
| GPU Cluster node (on-demand) | Instance — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Preemptible GPU Cluster | Interruptible instance, flat −50% |
| Reserved GPU Cluster (7–180+ days) | Reserved instance, −35% from 3 months |
| Dedicated Inference endpoint | Serverless endpoint (vLLM / ComfyUI / any container, scale to zero) |
| Together CLI / SDK | powergpu CLI / REST API / Python SDK |
pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu h100-sxm --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $1.428/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Together AI machine to a PowerGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.
A real month, costed
| Scenario | Together AI | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $2,913 | $1,042 |
| 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $638 | $228 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $114 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Not published on the pricing page | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
Together AI alternative: FAQ
Is PowerGPU cheaper than Together AI for raw GPUs?
On the GPU Clusters product, yes: Together lists on-demand HGX H100 at $3.99/hr (promotional; list $5.49) and HGX H200 at $5.99/hr (checked 2026-09-04); PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70. Together's long-term reservations (91+ days) close much of that gap.
Can PowerGPU replace Together's inference API?
Not directly — Together's serverless model endpoints and fine-tuning pipeline are a managed product PowerGPU does not build. PowerGPU's serverless endpoints run a container you bring (vLLM, TGI, your own image) rather than a hosted model catalog.
Do I need a sales call to get GPUs on PowerGPU like Together's clusters?
No — single GPUs and small multi-GPU machines deploy self-serve in about 30 seconds. Multi-node InfiniBand clusters (16 to 512 GPUs) go through provisioning but not a prepaid-credit gate.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Together AI, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
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