Comparison

DSPy vs Together AI

On the evidence we track, Together AI leads this comparison with a composite score of 77/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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DSPy54
★Together AI77
Score
vioscaleAI score
DSPy54 / 100medium · 58%
Together AI77 / 100medium · 59%
Pricing
Free tier
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Model
Together AIfreemium
Price level
DSPyfree
Together AIlow
Starting price
DSPy–
Together AI$0.00
Transparent
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Integrations
Count
DSPy1
Together AI–
Security
Disclosure policy
DSPy–
Together AI✓
Gdpr
DSPy–
Together AI✓
Iso27001
DSPy–
Together AI✓
Soc2
DSPy–
Together AI✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
DSPy–
Together AI99
Status page
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
DSPy3
Together AI–
Github stars
DSPy38,644
Together AI–
Package downloads weekly
DSPy93,838
Together AI–
Activity
Commits last 30d
DSPy67
Together AI–
Release
Cadence days
DSPy17
Together AI–
History
Together AI–
License
Spdx
DSPyMIT
Together AI–
Language
Primary
DSPyPython
Together AI–
Content
Faq
Together AI6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool role
DSPyAgent / RAG framework
Together AIEnd-to-end ML platform
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
Managed cloud available
DSPy✗
Together AI✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
DSPy✗
Together AI✗
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
DSPy✗
Together AI✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
DSPy✗
Together AI✗
Framework-agnostic
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
DSPyUnknown
Together AIYes

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

DSPy

Framework enabling developers to construct AI systems using typed task definitions and modular components, with automatic optimization replacing manual prompt design.

Independently observed

Together AI

Leader

Together AI provides cloud infrastructure for deploying, fine-tuning, and training open-source AI models. It offers flexible deployment options including serverless inference, batch processing, reserved throughput, and dedicated GPU instances with optimized performance and cost efficiency.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

DSPy

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Together AI

Leader
from $0.00/million tokensUsage-basedFree tier

Pay-per-token usage starting from $0.0015 per 1M tokens. Free tier available. Dedicated instances and reserved throughput available upon request.

  • BuildFree
    • Discord community support
  • ScaleFrom $0.0015 per 1M tokens
    • Serverless inference
    • Batch API
    • Standard Support (business hours)
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Provisioned throughput
    • Dedicated GPU instances
    • Silver/Gold Support
    • Dedicated support engineer
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
macOS
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
Windows
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
Linux
DSPy✓
Together AI✗
CLI
DSPy✓
Together AI✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
DSPy✗
Together AI✓
Self-hosted
DSPy✓
Together AI✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

DSPy

2 total
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
Independently observed

Together AI

Leader

Not documented yet.

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DSPy or Together AI: which one depends on you

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