FriendliAI vs Together AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
FriendliAI
Enterprise LLM inference at up to 90% lower GPU cost — built on the OR...
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Together AI
High-performance inference for open-weights LLMs
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | Up to $10K inference credits via application (10-day review, production-intent teams only) | — |
| Paid from | Serverless from $0.10/1M input tokens; Dedicated from $2.90/hr (A100 80GB) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 25-30 large enterprise clients (mid-2025); small team | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | FriendliAI Corp | — |
| Verdict | FriendliAI's edge is real research pedigree — its founders wrote the ORCA paper that gave the industry continuous batching, and the custom-built inference engine that grew out of it delivers cost and throughput numbers t... |
Together AI is a developer-focused cloud for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, and many more) with an OpenAI-compatible API, competitive pricing, and strong inference per... |
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