OpenAI vs Together AI

At a Glance

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Pros

The API is the most reliable and fastest in production of any frontier model provider — consistent latency under load+189
GPT-4o is genuinely capable across a huge range of tasks including code, analysis, and vision without requiring model-specific prompting tricks+174
The ecosystem of libraries, tutorials, and third-party integrations built around OpenAI's API is unmatched — every framework has an OpenAI adapter+158
Function calling and structured outputs make it practical to integrate LLM responses into typed TypeScript applications reliably+143
The Assistants API with file search and code interpreter handles complex RAG use cases without building your own vector database setup

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Cons

Pricing for GPT-4 class models is high enough that a popular app with heavy AI usage can burn through thousands of dollars quickly+186
Vendor dependency on a single company for a critical product feature is risky — rate limits and outages have impacted production apps+162
Context window costs mean long conversations or large document analysis gets expensive fast compared to alternatives like Gemini Flash+138
The Assistants API is complex and has inconsistent behavior — many teams end up building their own simpler orchestration layer on top of the Chat API+112