Together AI vs Vespa
Vespa scores higher on the AgentReady, 56/100 against 46/100. They differ on 4 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.
What each one is
Together AI. Full-stack AI platform, powered by cutting-edge research
Vespa. Vespa.ai develops the Vespa AI Search Platform, a distributed serving engine that unifies retrieval, ranking, machine learning inference, and real-time serving for business-critical AI applications.
Where Vespa is ahead
Vespa 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 understand: limits / constraints documented. Together AI misses it.
And on adopt, cli available. Together AI misses it.
What neither does
Both fail mcp discoverable, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, 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. Vespa leads 87 to 60. Together AI misses search discoverable, clear product positioning, mcp discoverable; Vespa misses mcp discoverable.
Understand. Vespa leads 46 to 38. Together AI misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Vespa misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented.
Adopt. Vespa leads 55 to 52. Together AI misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available; Vespa misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, mcp integration available.
Operate. Both sit at 35/100 here. Together AI misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Vespa misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.
Pricing
Together AI starts at $0.00 and has a free tier. Vespa starts at $0.05/hour with no free tier.
| Together AI plans | Vespa plans |
|---|---|
| Serverless Inference Usage-based per 1M tokens | Startup vCPU $0.05/hour, Memory GB $0.005/hour, Disk GB $0.0002/hour, GPU Memory GB $0.03/hour |
| Provisioned Throughput Custom | Basic vCPU $0.1/hour, Memory GB $0.01/hour, Disk GB $0.0004/hour, GPU Memory GB $0.07/hour |
| Dedicated Inference Custom | Commercial vCPU $0.145/hour, Memory GB $0.0145/hour, Disk GB $0.0005/hour, GPU Memory GB $0.1/hour |
| GPU Clusters Custom | Enterprise vCPU $0.18/hour, Memory GB $0.018/hour, Disk GB $0.0007/hour, GPU Memory GB $0.125/hour |
| Sandbox Custom | Self Managed Contact Sales |
| Managed Storage Custom | - |
| Fine-Tuning Custom | - |
Signal by signal
| Signal | Together AI | Vespa |
|---|---|---|
| AgentReady | 46 | 56 |
| Discovery | 60 | 87 |
| Understanding | 38 | 46 |
| Adoption | 52 | 55 |
| Operability | 35 | 35 |
| Public API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Yes |
| CLI | Unknown | Yes |
| llms.txt | Yes | Yes |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
Which to pick
Vespa clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Together AI and Vespa. Alternatives to each: Together AI, Vespa.
An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["together", "vespa"]}