For AI infra Together AI for 3 months. Not a trial, not a demo—actual use on real projects. Here is what worked, what did not, and whether I will renew.
What I value most about Together AI: the speed of iteration. Write a function signature, tab-accept the suggestion, tweak, commit. The loop is fast enough that coding feels like pair programming with a fast junior developer who never complains.
Test generation is better than I expected. It writes meaningful tests that actually test edge cases, not just assertEquals(true, true). After 3 months, I trust the generated tests enough to let them run in CI without manual review.
The user interface can be distracting. Suggestions pop up while you are thinking, auto-completions fight with your IDE's built-in tools, and notifications for new features interrupt your flow. I turned off most of the non-essential features after the first week and got back to a clean editing experience.
One more thing: the AI sometimes "helps" by adding comments to your code that explain the obvious. It is well-intentioned but clutters the codebase. I now explicitly ask it not to add comments unless I request them.
Price breakdown for Together AI: Free tier with usage caps, paid plans from $10-20/month, enterprise plans at $50-100/user/month. Most solo professionals use the mid-tier plan.
My recommendation: start with the free tier, upgrade when you hit the limits. The wrong move is paying for annual upfront without a month of real use first.
Together AI works best for solo professionals and small teams (2-10 people). The per-user pricing is reasonable, the collaboration features are adequate, and the admin overhead is low. For larger teams or enterprise deployments, evaluate carefully—some features that enterprises need (SSO, audit logs, advanced permissions) are gated behind higher tiers.
Freelancers and agencies: Together AI is a good fit. The commercial license terms are clear, the output quality is professional, and the time savings translate directly to billable hours.
After 90 days, Together AI occupies a specific role in my workflow: it handles the routine 70% of ai infrastructure tasks that I used to do manually. The remaining 30%—edge cases, creative decisions, quality-sensitive outputs—still need human judgment. That division works for me.
Rating: 4.5/5. The score reflects that Together AI is excellent at what it was designed for and average at everything else. That is not a criticism—it is an accurate description of where AI tools are in 2026.
One prediction: Together AI will either be acquired by a larger platform or add enough features to compete with them directly. The current feature set is solid but the market is consolidating fast.
Three months in, here is what surprised me about Together AI: the things I thought I would use it for, I do not. The things I do not expect, I use daily. That pattern shows up in most of the tools I keep in rotation. The value is not in the headline features, it is in the side features that turn out to be the main reason you pay.
I've been testing and reviewing AI tools for 2+ years. I run saas.pet as a side project while working as a software engineer. I buy every subscription I review. No vendor pitches, no free accounts. If a tool is in my rotation, I pay for it.
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