Baseten vs Together AI
Baseten scores higher on the AgentReady, 59/100 against 46/100. They differ on 5 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.
What each one is
Baseten. Baseten is an AI inference platform that provides the fastest model runtimes, cross-cloud high availability, and seamless developer workflows.
Together AI. Full-stack AI platform, powered by cutting-edge research
Where Baseten is ahead
Baseten passes search discoverable and clear product positioning, and Together AI does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.
It also holds adopt: no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow and cli available. Together AI misses those.
What neither does
Both fail mcp discoverable, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, programmatic credential creation, mcp integration available, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.
Score, pillar by pillar
The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.
Discover is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Baseten leads 87 to 60. Baseten misses mcp discoverable; Together AI misses search discoverable, clear product positioning, mcp discoverable.
Understand. Both sit at 38/100 here. Baseten misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Together AI misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.
Adopt. Baseten leads 75 to 52. Baseten misses programmatic credential creation, mcp integration available; Together AI misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available.
Operate. Both sit at 35/100 here. Baseten misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Together AI misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.
Pricing
Baseten does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. Together AI starts at $0.00 and has a free tier.
| Baseten plans | Together AI plans |
|---|---|
| - | Serverless Inference Usage-based per 1M tokens |
| - | Provisioned Throughput Custom |
| - | Dedicated Inference Custom |
| - | GPU Clusters Custom |
| - | Sandbox Custom |
| - | Managed Storage Custom |
| - | Fine-Tuning Custom |
Signal by signal
| Signal | Baseten | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| AgentReady | 59 | 46 |
| Discovery | 87 | 60 |
| Understanding | 38 | 38 |
| Adoption | 75 | 52 |
| Operability | 35 | 35 |
| Public API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Yes |
| CLI | Yes | Unknown |
| llms.txt | Yes | Yes |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
Which to pick
Baseten clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Baseten and Together AI. Alternatives to each: Baseten, Together AI.
An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["baseten", "together"]}