--- title: "Together AI Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "Together AI vs PowerGPU: H100 SXM price, billing, payment (crypto, no KYC) and what maps to what when you switch. Public list prices checked 2026-09-04." url: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/together-ai last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-09-14 site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) --- Alternative · prices checked 2026-09-04 # Together AI alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market Together AI is primarily an inference and fine-tuning platform: serverless model APIs billed per token, Dedicated Endpoints for a single model on reserved capacity, and GPU Clusters for teams that want the bare metal. GPU Clusters ship as multi-GPU HGX nodes (H100, H200, B200) with preemptible, on-demand and reserved pricing across five commitment tiers. Provisioning beyond a small allocation is sales-assisted rather than instant self-serve. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## 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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h100-sxm) (GPU Clusters on-demand, HGX H100 SXM, promotional rate (list $5.49)) | $3.99 | **$1.428** | $0.714 | −64% on PowerGPU | | [H200](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h200) (GPU Clusters on-demand, HGX H200 SXM) | $5.99 | **$2.791** | $1.395 | −53% on PowerGPU | | [B200](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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 | *the whole migration, from the shell* ``` 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 second ``` Data moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Together AI machine to a PowerGPU [volume](https://powergpu.ai/products/volumes), which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for [PyTorch](https://powergpu.ai/templates/pytorch), [vLLM](https://powergpu.ai/templates/vllm), [ComfyUI](https://powergpu.ai/templates/comfyui) and [Ollama](https://powergpu.ai/templates/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](https://powergpu.ai/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. Together AI and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with Together AI. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. --- *About PowerGPU:* PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 80 NVIDIA GPU models — from the RTX A2000 at $0.024/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.428/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.powergpu.ai) or the REST API. Source: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/together-ai · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt