Comparison

Together AI vs vLLM

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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★Together AI77

vLLM64

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Together AILeader	vLLM
vioscaleAI score	77 / 100medium · 59%	64 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$0.00	-
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	29
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://www.together.ai/privacy	https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/usage/security/
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 80 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=vllm&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 52 · Max severity: CRITICAL
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	99	-
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	5
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	93,797
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	463,948
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	12
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Python
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	Available worldwide
Content
Faqcontent.faq	6 items	6 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Together AI77 / 100medium · 59%

vLLM64 / 100medium · 58%

Pricing

Free tier

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Model

Together AIfreemium

vLLMopen_source

Price level

Together AIlow

vLLMfree

Starting price

Together AI$0.00

vLLM–

Transparent

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Integrations

Count

Together AI–

vLLM29

Security

Disclosure policy

Together AI✓

vLLM–

Gdpr

Together AI✓

vLLM–

Iso27001

Together AI✓

vLLM–

Soc2

Together AI✓

vLLM–

Trust center

Together AIhttps://www.together.ai/privacy

vLLMhttps://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/usage/security/

Vulnerabilities

Together AI–

vLLMCount: 80 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=vllm&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 52 · Max severity: CRITICAL

Reliability

Sla pct

Together AI99

vLLM–

Status page

Together AI✓

vLLM–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Together AI–

vLLM5

Github stars

Together AI–

vLLM93,797

Package downloads weekly

Together AI–

vLLM463,948

Activity

Commits last 30d

Together AI–

vLLM100

Release

Cadence days

Together AI–

vLLM12

History

Together AI–

vLLM20 items

License

Spdx

Together AI–

vLLMApache-2.0

Language

Primary

Together AI–

vLLMPython

Market

Availability

Together AIAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

vLLMAvailable worldwide

Content

Faq

Together AI6 items

vLLM6 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for MLOps & LLMOps Tools
Capability	Together AI	vLLM
Core
Tool role	End-to-end ML platform	Model serving
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	Yes	-

Core

Tool role

Together AIEnd-to-end ML platform

vLLMModel serving

Deployment

Self-hostable / OSS core

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

Managed cloud available

Together AI✓

vLLM✗

On-prem / VPC deployment

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Observability

LLM tracing / observability

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)

Together AI✓

vLLM-

Dev

Prompt management + versioning

Together AI✗

vLLM-

Tracking

Experiment tracking / model registry

Together AI✗

vLLM-

Serving

Model serving / inference endpoint

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Interop

OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

Framework-agnostic

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Gateway

Multi-provider model support

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Data

No-train-on-customer-data guarantee

Together AIYes

vLLM-

What each one is

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

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

vLLM

A production-grade inference engine designed for efficient serving of large language models with support for distributed deployment, GPU acceleration, and multi-model endpoints.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 2026-10-02verify ↗

vLLM

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Together AI	vLLM
WebPlatforms	✓	✗
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Together AI✓

vLLM✗

Linux

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

CLI

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Together AI✓

vLLM✓

Self-hosted

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

On-premise

Together AI✗

vLLM✓

Integrations

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

Together AI

Leader

Not documented yet.

vLLM

33 total

Hugging Face
NVIDIA Dynamo
OpenAI-compatible API
Anthropic Messages API
FlashAttention
FlashInfer
CUTLASS
torch.compile
gRPC
GPTQ
AWQ
GGUF
ModelOpt
TorchAO
OpenAI API
Kubernetes
PyTorch
Ray
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
FastAPI
Transformers
Outlines
Google Cloud TPU
+9 more

Independently observed

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