Head-to-Head Comparison

Ollama vs Together AI

Which Open Source Model is right for you? See our complete breakdown.

Ollama

8/10 Visit Ollama
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Together AI

9/10 Our Pick Visit Together AI
FeatureOllamaTogether AI
MegaOne Score8/109/10
CategoryOpen Source ModelApi Platform
Pricing ModelFreemiumPaid Only
Starting Price$20.00/mo$5.00/mo
Free TierYesNo
API AvailableNoNo
Open SourceNoNo
iOS AppNoNo
Android AppNoNo
Chrome ExtensionNoNo
CompanyOllama Inc.Together AI
Total Funding$88M$1.3B

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About Ollama

Ollama is an open-source platform that enables developers to run large language models locally on their own hardware and through hosted cloud models.

Ollama provides tools for downloading, running, importing, and managing large language models via a command-line interface, a native GUI, and a local REST API. It supports a range of hardware environments, offering local execution for privacy and cost benefits, alongside an optional cloud service for heavier workloads.

About Together AI

Together AI is a cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source AI models at scale, offering serverless inference, dedicated GPU endpoints, and GPU clusters.

Together AI is an AI-native cloud platform that provides infrastructure for developers and researchers to build, train, and run open-source generative AI models. It offers a comprehensive suite of services including per-token serverless inference, dedicated GPU endpoints for predictable throughput, on-demand GPU clusters for training, and managed fine-tuning capabilities for customizing models on proprietary data. The platform supports a broad catalog of over 200 open models and aims to remove the complexities of managing GPU infrastructure.

Together AI takes the edge

With a MegaOne score of 9/10 versus 8/10, Together AI edges ahead of Ollama in our analysis. However, Ollama may still be the better choice depending on your specific use case and budget.