What is the difference between Crusoe and Together AI?

Crusoe and Together AI are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Crusoe or Together AI?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Crusoe and Together AI?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 8 different GPU models across both Crusoe and Together AI, with 0 models available from both providers.

Crusoe vs Together AI GPU & LLM API Pricing 2026

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 8Both available: 4Crusoe: 6Together AI: 6

Showing 8 of 8 GPUs

Last updated: 8/7/2026, 9:48:28 PM

GPU Model ↑	Crusoe Price	Together AI Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$1.45/hr★ Best	$2.59/hr	↓$1.14(44.1%)	Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $2.59/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.14(44.1%) Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$9.00/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $9.00/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$3.90/hr★ Best	$5.40/hr	↓$1.50(27.8%)	Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $5.40/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.50(27.8%) Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$4.29/hr★ Best	$6.60/hr	↓$2.31(35.0%)	Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $6.60/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$2.31(35.0%) Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $1.49/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$1.45/hr★ Best	$2.10/hr	↓$0.65(31.0%)	Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $2.10/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.65(31.0%) Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe

A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$1.45/hr★ Best	$2.59/hr	↓$1.14(44.1%)	Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $2.59/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.14(44.1%) Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$9.00/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $9.00/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$3.90/hr★ Best	$5.40/hr	↓$1.50(27.8%)	Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $5.40/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.50(27.8%) Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$4.29/hr★ Best	$6.60/hr	↓$2.31(35.0%)	Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $6.60/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$2.31(35.0%) Crusoe Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $1.49/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • CrusoeTogether AI	$1.45/hr★ Best	$2.10/hr	↓$0.65(31.0%)	Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 ★Best Price Together AI $2.10/hour Updated: 8/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.65(31.0%) Shadeform API Together AI Hardware API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 8/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 60Both available: 8Crusoe: 14Together AI: 54

Showing 15 of 60 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 8/7/2026, 9:48:28 PM

Model ↑	Crusoe	Together AI	Input Diff ↕
BAAI bge-large-en-v1.5 BAAI	Not available	$0.0080 in $0.0080 out	—
DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek	Not available	$0.800 in $0.800 out	—
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek	Not available	$3.00 in $7.00 out	—
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	$0.500 in $1.50 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek	Not available	$0.600 in $1.70 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	$0.140 in $0.280 out	$0.140 in $0.280 out	$0.0000
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$1.74 in $3.48 out	$1.74 in $3.48 out	$0.0000
Gemma 2 27B Google	Not available	$0.800 in $0.800 out	—
Gemma 3 27B Google	Not available	$0.060 in $0.120 out	—
Gemma 4 12B Google	$0.140 in $0.400 out	Not available	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	Not available	$0.280 in $0.860 out	—
GLM-4.5 Air Zhipu	Not available	$0.200 in $1.10 out	—
GLM-4.6 Zhipu	Not available	$0.600 in $2.20 out	—
GLM-4.7 Zhipu	Not available	$0.450 in $2.00 out	—
GLM-5 Zhipu	Not available	$1.00 in $3.20 out	—

Features Comparison

Crusoe

Energy-First Infrastructure
Vertically integrated power sourcing across wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas, and carbon capture
Fast Spin Up
Machines are deployed quickly when they are launched
Persistent Storage
Persistent and shared disks, object storage, and a container registry for AI datasets
SXM Support
Provides instances with NVIDIA SXM GPU interconnects
SLA Guarantee
99.5% uptime commitment backed by 24/7 enterprise-grade support
Managed Inference
LLM inference with up to 9.9x faster time-to-first-token and 5x higher throughput versus vLLM

Together AI

100+ Open-Source Models
Access to Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and other leading open-source models
Serverless Inference
Pay-per-token API with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
Fine-Tuning Platform
LoRA and full fine-tuning with proprietary optimizations
GPU Clusters
Instant self-service or reserved dedicated clusters with H100, H200, B200, GB200, GB300 access
Batch API
50% cost reduction for non-urgent inference workloads
Provisioned Throughput
Reserve dedicated capacity in throughput units (PTUs) with SLAs

Pros & Cons

Crusoe

Advantages

Great GPU availability for on-demand use
Published hourly on-demand rates for most GPU types
Renewable and low-carbon energy sourcing with vertical integration from power to cloud
99.5% uptime commitment with 24/7 enterprise support

Considerations

Contact sales required for newest GPU models (GB200, B200, MI355X)
Spot capacity is quoted by sales rather than published as a self-service rate
Data center footprint concentrated in the United States with limited European capacity

Together AI

Advantages

2x faster inference and 90% faster pre-training with cutting-edge research optimizations
Competitive pricing with 50% batch API discount
Wide selection of 100+ open-source models
OpenAI-compatible APIs for easy migration

Considerations

Primarily focused on open-source models
GPU cluster pricing requires custom quotes for reserved capacity
Smaller ecosystem compared to major cloud providers

Compute Services

Crusoe

GPU Instances

High-performance GPU instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs

CPU Instances

General-purpose and storage-optimized CPU instances for data processing

Managed Inference

Fully managed LLM inference spanning serverless, self-serve dedicated, and tailored deployments

Open models including DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.6, Llama 3.3, Gemma 4, Qwen3, GPT-OSS, and Nemotron 3
Serverless Inference billed per million input, output, and cached tokens

Together AI

Pricing Options

Crusoe

On-Demand Instances

Pay by the hour for maximum agility and unthrottled compute

Spot Instances

Use spare capacity at significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing

Reserved Instances

Lock in guaranteed resources at lowest rates with custom commitments

Pay-as-you-go Inference

Flexible pricing for LLM inference based on token usage

Provisioned Throughput

Guaranteed inference capacity with AI Model Units, priced lower for longer commitments

Dedicated Inference Deployments

Hourly per-GPU pricing for self-serve dedicated endpoints, with monthly and volume rates via sales

Serverless Fine-Tuning

Per-token pricing tiered by the parameter count of the base model being tuned

Together AI

Serverless pay-per-token

Per-token pricing scales based on model size, from small open-source models to 405B parameter frontier models

Batch API

50% discount for non-urgent inference workloads

Provisioned Throughput

Reserve dedicated capacity priced in throughput units (PTUs) with guaranteed SLAs

Fine-tuning

Per-token pricing for LoRA and full fine-tuning based on model size and dataset

GPU Clusters - On-demand

Hourly GPU pricing for instant self-service clusters

GPU Clusters - Reserved

Custom pricing for reserved capacity with significant discounts for longer commitments

Dedicated Inference

Single-tenant GPU instances with guaranteed performance

Getting Started

Crusoe

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for Crusoe Cloud services through their website
2
Select GPU instance
Choose from available GPU types including L40S, A100, H100, H200, B200, GB200, and AMD options
3
Configure storage
Set up persistent storage options for your workloads
4
Launch instance
Deploy via the console, or provision programmatically with the Crusoe CLI or Terraform

Together AI

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up at together.ai
2
Get API key
Generate an API key from your dashboard
3
Choose a model
Browse 100+ models for chat, code, images, video, and audio
4
Make API calls
Use OpenAI-compatible endpoints or Together SDK

Support & Global Availability

Crusoe

Global Regions

Data centers sited near low-cost energy in the United States, including a large-scale campus in Abilene, Texas, plus European capacity in Iceland and Norway

Support

Documentation, learning hub, and 24/7 enterprise-grade support with a 99.5% uptime commitment; SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications

Together AI

Global Regions

Global data center network across 25+ cities with frontier hardware including GB300, GB200, B200, H200, H100

Support

Documentation, community Discord, email support, and expert support for reserved cluster customers