# Gemini 4 Carbon vs Together AI Inference (slim)

> Together AI Inference scores 67.8 (B) to Gemini 4 Carbon's 62.6 (B) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Together AI Inference scores 67.8 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini 4 Carbon's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Gemini 4 Carbon leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference.

- Gemini 4 Carbon: B 62.6, rank #555 of 1518 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-4-carbon.min.md
- Together AI Inference: B 67.8, rank #304 of 1518 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-inference.min.md
- Gemini 4 Carbon, good for Agents on the hardest long tasks (multi-step debugging, large codebases, open-ended research, security work) that can pay frontier prices and already use the Gemini API. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 93 against 85; Maintenance & community, 83 against 65. Also No incidents deducted, where Together AI Inference loses 3 points for them.
- Together AI Inference, good for Together AI Inference serves open models through an OpenAI-compatible API, with serverless requests, batch processing, dedicated model deployments and provisioned throughput. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 40; Schema & documentation, 93 against 85; Security & auth, 70 against 55.

| Category | Gemini 4 Carbon | Together AI Inference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 93 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 55 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gemini 4 Carbon | Together AI Inference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Google | Together Computer, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` | `https://api.together.ai/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google's apps under Google's terms | Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences. |
| Last release | 2026-11-10 | 2026-10-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-28 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 10 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Together AI Inference +35: Gemini 4 Carbon 40 (Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API.); Together AI Inference 75 (Graded as listed, on the hosted API lines.)
- Maintenance & community, Gemini 4 Carbon +18: Gemini 4 Carbon 83 (Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API.); Together AI Inference 65 (Graded as listed, on the tool lines.)
- Security & auth, Together AI Inference +15: Gemini 4 Carbon 55 (Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API.); Together AI Inference 70 (Project-scoped, revocable keys with optional expiry and rotation guidance (30).)
- Schema & documentation, Together AI Inference +8: Gemini 4 Carbon 85 (Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API.); Together AI Inference 93 (Public OpenAPI 3.1 (25), llms.txt and Markdown docs (10), endpoint and model-capability guidance (16 of 20), typed inputs and constraints (13 of 15), examples a…)
- Agent ergonomics, Gemini 4 Carbon +8: Gemini 4 Carbon 93 (Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API.); Together AI Inference 85 (Compact model API with bounded output (25).)