# Pydantic AI vs Together AI

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Together AI

| Attribute | Pydantic AI | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.5 (62% (medium)) | 76.7 (59% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 20,608 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 3,171,945 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A comprehensive toolkit combining an open-source Python agent development framework with a managed observability platform designed specifically for AI applications, including monitoring, evaluation, and LLM gateway capabilities. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","question":"What is Pydantic AI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pydantic AI is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $2. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","question":"Is Pydantic AI free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pydantic AI supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","question":"What platforms does Pydantic AI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pydantic AI can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","question":"Can Pydantic AI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 10 integrations for Pydantic AI, including Pydantic AI, Pydantic Evals, OpenTelemetry, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Snowflake, FastAPI, OpenAI and LangChain, plus 2 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","question":"What does Pydantic AI integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Pydantic AI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pydantic AI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://pydantic.dev/security","question":"What security certifications does Pydantic AI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Pydantic AI is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai","question":"Is Pydantic AI open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud platform enabling developers to deploy, fine-tune, and run open-source AI models with optimized inference, serverless scaling, and dedicated computing resources. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://www.together.ai/blog/august-2023-pricing-update","question":"What is Together AI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Together AI offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.together.ai/blog/august-2023-pricing-update","question":"Is Together AI free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Together AI supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.together.ai/blog/august-2023-pricing-update","question":"What platforms does Together AI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Together AI can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.together.ai/blog/august-2023-pricing-update","question":"Can Together AI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Together AI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Together AI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.together.ai","question":"What security certifications does Together AI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Together AI is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.together.ai/blog/august-2023-pricing-update","question":"Where is Together AI available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | An observability and development platform for production AI agent systems that combines tracing, evaluation, and inference gateway capabilities for building reliable LLM applications. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"observability","evaluation":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"commercial_enterprise_platform","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"synchronous_and_asynchronous_execution_modes":true,"streaming_output_and_intermediate_step_yielding":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"soc2_type_ii":false,"compute_model":"multi_tenant_hybrid","managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"per_million_tokens","self_hostable":false,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":false,"no_train_on_data":"yes","llm_observability":false,"prompt_management":false,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":false,"openai_compatible_rest_api_schema":true,"bring_your_own_weights_byow_hosting":true,"dynamic_batching_and_kv_cache_management":false,"massive_context_window_support_100k_plus":true,"hipaa_baa_compliance_for_medical_inference":false,"multimodal_vision_and_audio_in_out_support":true,"native_function_calling_and_strict_json_mode":true,"streaming_server_sent_events_sse_token_yield":false,"lpu_or_custom_silicon_for_extreme_low_latency":false,"zero_data_retention_training_opt_out_enterprise":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Pydantic AI"},{"name":"Pydantic Evals"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol (MCP)"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"HuggingFace"},{"name":"Prefect"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Personal","summary":"Free for up to 10M spans/month","features":["10M spans per month","Hard cap to prevent bill shock"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For solo developers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"spans":"10M/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$49/month + $2 per million spans","features":["Overage billing at flat rate","Seat limits apply"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million spans"},"kind":"metered","amount":2,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"$249/month + $2 per million spans, unlimited seats","features":["No seat limits","Overage billing at flat rate"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":249,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million spans"},"kind":"metered","amount":2,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier for 10M spans/month. Paid plans from $49/month with flat-rate overage pricing at $2 per million spans.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pydantic.dev/articles/ai-observability-pricing-comparison","retrievedAt":"2026-09-13T19:28:55.779Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Build","summary":"Free tier","features":["Discord community support"],"description":"Community tier","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","summary":"From $0.0015 per 1M tokens","features":["Serverless inference","Batch API","Standard Support (business hours)"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million tokens"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-per-token inference with Standard Support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales for reserved capacity pricing","features":["Provisioned throughput","Dedicated GPU instances","Silver/Gold Support","Dedicated support engineer"],"description":"Reserved capacity and dedicated infrastructure with Silver/Gold Support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Pay-per-token usage starting from $0.0015 per 1M tokens. Free tier available. Dedicated instances and reserved throughput available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.together.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-02T16:26:49.735Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"million tokens","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":49,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/clai2-bleeding","date":"2026-10-06T01:25:23Z","type":"prerelease","version":"clai2-bleeding"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.56.0","date":"2026-10-13T23:35:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.56.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.55.0","date":"2026-10-09T19:20:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.55.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.54.0","date":"2026-10-03T03:21:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.54.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.53.0","date":"2026-10-02T02:52:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.53.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.52.0","date":"2026-09-30T00:54:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.52.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v1.107.7","date":"2026-09-30T00:54:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.107.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.51.0","date":"2026-09-25T23:19:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.51.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.50.0","date":"2026-09-25T04:47:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.50.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.49.0","date":"2026-09-24T03:09:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.49.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.48.0","date":"2026-09-23T02:41:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.48.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.47.0","date":"2026-09-22T03:59:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.47.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.46.0","date":"2026-09-19T03:51:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.46.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.45.0","date":"2026-09-18T04:31:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.45.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.44.0","date":"2026-09-17T04:03:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.44.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v1.107.6","date":"2026-09-17T03:30:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.107.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.43.0","date":"2026-09-12T00:54:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.43.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.42.0","date":"2026-09-09T03:33:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.42.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.41.0","date":"2026-09-08T04:15:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.41.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.40.0","date":"2026-09-05T00:09:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.40.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://pydantic.dev/security | https://www.together.ai/privacy |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fpydantic%2Fpydantic-ai&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:22:30.814Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*