# Baseten vs Together GPU Clusters (slim)

> Baseten scores 62.7 (B) to Together GPU Clusters's 58.1 (C) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Baseten scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Together GPU Clusters's 58.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Together GPU Clusters leads on schema & documentation. Both do gpu compute.

- Baseten: B 62.7, rank #543 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md
- Together GPU Clusters: C 58.1, rank #768 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-gpu-clusters.min.md
- Baseten, good for Teams that want one model behind a production endpoint with real autoscaling knobs, environments and scoped keys. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 38; Security & auth, 82 against 68; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 90 against 75. Also Open source.
- Together GPU Clusters, good for Training, fine-tuning and batch jobs that need several 8-GPU nodes with InfiniBand, run by a pipeline that creates and deletes clusters. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 92 against 84. Also No incidents deducted, where Baseten loses 11 points for them.

| Category | Baseten | Together GPU Clusters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 92 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baseten | Together GPU Clusters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baseten | Together AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://api.together.ai/v1/compute/clusters` |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Together's terms of service. The Python SDK and CLI are Apache-2.0 and the OpenAPI document is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-22 |
| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Baseten +52: Baseten 90 (Atlassian Statuspage at status.baseten.co with incident history (20). Its history pages list 27 incidents from 3 August to 1 November 2026, 7 of them labelled major, plus three scheduled database upgrades. Every one is scoped to one Model API model, one cluster or region, or a subset of models, the longest labelled major being the Kimi K3 Model API for 54 minutes on 20 September, so all read as partial and minor (20). The management API rate-limits page gives per-endpoint numbers (20 a minute for activate and deactivate, 10 a minute for retry, 30 a second for logs) and the async limit stays at 12,000 a minute per the 1 October check (15). 429 returns `retry_after` with an instruction to back off on it, and 529 honours Retry-After (15). A public Service Level Agreement, part of the Terms and dated 15 September 2026 in its body (15 September 2025 in the page header), commits to 99.9 per cent monthly availability for Dedicated Inference and Model APIs on Baseten-managed infrastructure, with service credits up to 40 per cent on request within 24 hours; the 1 October check missed it (10). Dedicated deployments are GA (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 = 90.); Together GPU Clusters 38 (Read with the hosted lines. status.together.ai lists the website, the playground and serverless models with no component for GPU clusters, and a vendor page with no component for the product takes 15 in this run, as for Together's Code Sandbox and fine-tuning listings (15). No incident history for clusters can be read (5). No rate limits for the clusters API found (0). Together's docs give 429 and 503 backoff guidance for its APIs, per the inference listing's 1 November check, and the CLI has `--non-interactive` and `--json` for scripted retries, but creation has no idempotency key (8). No SLA for clusters found; the published 99% commitment covers provisioned inference throughput only (0). Generally available since 9 September 2025 and out of the CLI's beta paths since 22 October 2026, with preemptible nodes in preview (10). 15+5+0+8+0+10 = 38.)
- Payments & pricing, Baseten +20: Baseten 40 (No machine payment protocol (0). Per-minute GPU prices from $0.01052 (T4) to $0.16633 (B200) published without a login (20). New workspaces get credits and no payment method is needed until they run out, at which point models are deactivated (20). Signup is a browser flow (0).); Together GPU Clusters 20 (No machine payment protocol (0). Per GPU-hour prices for each capacity type and per GiB-month storage published without a login (20). No free trial, and creation needs credit for the full reservation or a minimum on-demand period (0). Sign-up and credit purchase are browser steps (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.)
- Maintenance & community, Baseten +15: Baseten 90 (A changelog entry on 30 October 2026 (mixed-mode rolling promotions) and Truss v0.18.37 tagged on 29 October (30). In the 90 days from 3 August, 13 stable Truss tags (v0.18.25 on 3 August to v0.18.37) and 31 dated changelog entries from 14 August to 30 October (20). Truss had 9 open issues, the recent ones answered within days, but a 24 August request for a private security contact had one reply and two January 2026 deployment issues sat unanswered, per the 1 October check; GitHub's pages weren't readable on 1 November (18). Truss, the Baseten CLI (v1.4.1 on 22 October) and a JavaScript client are current (15). Release workflow runs in GitHub Actions and Truss supports Python 3.9 to 3.14, but an open issue reports the npm performance client shipping without its platform dependencies since 0.0.10, per the 1 October check (7). 30 + 20 + 18 + 15 + 7 = 90.); Together GPU Clusters 75 (Closed service. The newest cluster change is CLI and SDK 3.0 on 22 October 2026, 15 days before this check (30). Dated cluster entries in the 90 days from 8 August include 12, 18, 19, 24, 27 and 28 August, 10 September and 22 October (20). Dated changelog, a support portal and Discord, with responsiveness not tested (8). Python SDK 3.1 and TypeScript SDK 1.0 are current and cover clusters (15). SDK CI and dependencies weren't audited (2). 30+20+8+15+2 = 75.)
- Security & auth, Baseten +14: Baseten 82 (Team keys can be full access, inference-only or metrics-only and scoped to an environment or a model, organisation keys manage other keys over the API, and every key is revocable. Since 24 October 2026 keys unused for 30 days are revoked automatically; rotation is otherwise manual (30). Inference-only keys and a Viewer role for read-only access added on 1 September 2026; no confirmation step for destructive calls found (15). Returns your own model's output, no third-party content (10). Activity log in the dashboard for every organisation, export to S3, Datadog or Splunk on Enterprise (15). Coordinated disclosure to security@baseten.co on the trust centre (per the 1 October check; it renders only with JavaScript), SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, annual penetration test, no bug bounty, and www.baseten.co/.well-known/security.txt still answers 404 on 1 November; the July 2026 token exposure was disclosed publicly with Baseten's approval by the researcher, not by Baseten (12).); Together GPU Clusters 68 (Project-scoped API keys, revocable with optional expiry, read as Together's other listings read the same key model (30). Admin and editor roles with no read-only role. Only admins get the admin kubeconfig, which has cluster-admin rights, and OIDC lets editors use kubectl under RBAC. Deletes run without confirmation when `--non-interactive` is passed (8). The API returns cluster state, not third-party content (10). Invoices itemise reserved, on-demand and storage charges, and no audit log for cluster operations was found (5). security.txt with a HackerOne route, per the 1 November check of the inference listing (15). 30+8+10+5+15 = 68.)
- Schema & documentation, Together GPU Clusters +8: Baseten 84 (A public OpenAPI 3.0 spec for the management API at api.baseten.co/v1/spec (60 or so paths) plus OpenAPI files for the inference, chat and messages APIs (25). llms.txt with a .md twin for every page (10). Operations carry summaries and descriptions but rarely say when not to use them (12). Request bodies are typed with required fields; enums are sparse (10). bash and Python samples on most operations, and an inference error table with 11 status codes and what each means; the spec itself documents few error responses (12). Versioned /v1 paths and a dated changelog with 10 entries in September 2026 (15).); Together GPU Clusters 92 (Public OpenAPI 3.1 for /v1/compute/clusters and shared volumes, MIT, embedded in every reference page (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). The docs say when to choose Kubernetes or Slurm and each capacity type, and the management page carries instructions for agents on reporting live availability and prices (18). Enums for cluster type, billing type, GPU type and status, required fields marked (13). CLI, Python, TypeScript and console steps on each task, with 402 and 403 cases documented, though no error catalogue for the clusters API (11). Versioned SDKs and a dated changelog with cluster entries (15). 25+10+18+13+11+15 = 92.)