Together AI
Independent inference, fine-tuning, and training platform offering open and proprietary model hosting. Model and hosting rights vary by selected model.
Score calculation
(7 + 5) ÷ 2 = 6.0
2 of six dimensions rated. Unrated dimensions and BDS status are excluded.
Full scoring method ↗Setup details
Provider operates API/infrastructure and can host models by others; customer-data privacy statements do not establish corpus rights.
Energy
↑The reviewed sources give no service-level power, emissions, or water figures.
Reasoning & sources
The reviewed sources give no service-level power, emissions, or water figures. For a deployment, request or export the selected service and region’s usage-linked footprint when available; do not treat company-wide renewable matching as per-request impact.
Request-level electricity, emissions, and water use remain unknown.
Training rights
↑Customer-data policy covers service inputs, not legal provenance of the hosted model’s pretraining corpus. Together’s catalog includes third-party/open models whose licenses and provenance differ.
Reasoning & sources
Customer-data policy covers service inputs, not legal provenance of the hosted model’s pretraining corpus. Together’s catalog includes third-party/open models whose licenses and provenance differ. Select the model first and review its license plus corpus-provenance disclosures; prompt no-training terms do not clear the model’s original dataset.
Per-model license, training source/consent/compensation, and rights claims need model-specific review.
Privacy
↑Together’s privacy policy says customer data is not used to train without explicit opt-in and describes settings to avoid retaining prompts, responses or training data.
Reasoning & sources
The company says customer data is not used for training without opt-in and documents no-retention settings, but public verification and feature-level exceptions remain limited. Check the exact API/web surface, plan, region, retention setting, routing, and stateful features in the applicable terms before sending sensitive content.
The company says customer data is not used for training without opt-in and documents no-retention settings, but public verification and feature-level exceptions remain limited.
Verify current product, account, retention settings, and separate terms for fine-tuning/custom model services.
Openness
↑Together serves many open-weight models, but its inference stack remains managed; dedicated deployments do not make the service code portable.
Reasoning & sources
Open weights are available upstream, while Together’s own serving stack remains managed. Check whether the chosen model’s weights and license permit inspection or relocation, and whether the serving runtime moves too; API compatibility alone is not an open stack.
Open weights are available upstream, while Together’s own serving stack remains managed.
Catalog availability does not establish that each model is OSI-open, that training corpora are documented, or that all service components are open.
Worker treatment
↑Together's careers page describes employee roles and benefits, while its infrastructure materials identify external data-center partners. Neither source reports worker conditions or audit outcomes for data annotation, model evaluation, or partner-site operations.
Reasoning & sources
Together publishes some employee benefit information and names infrastructure partners, but the cited materials give no annotation-worker, subcontractor, or partner-site outcomes. Request current vendor-level pay, location, exposure protections, audits, and remediation; company hiring benefits do not establish conditions across the inference supply chain.
Current pay, worker locations, exposure safeguards, and independent labor outcomes for Together or its infrastructure partners are not disclosed.
Government & military
↑Together's terms describe hosted model/API services and its public materials describe commercial infrastructure expansion, but the reviewed sources do not identify a specific defense customer, award, or deployment for this provider. A cloud footprint or government eligibility alone would not establish military use.
Reasoning & sources
Together's terms cover hosted APIs and its infrastructure page gives capacity and regional options, but neither identifies defense customers or model deployments. Leave the relationship unscored until a named contract or endpoint scope is documented; do not infer military use from infrastructure scale or general government eligibility.
These public documents are not a complete customer or contract register and cannot rule out undisclosed government work.
BDS status
↑We did not find Together Computer, Inc. among the named targets in the two official BNC campaign lists. This is a limited list check, not BDS approval.
Reasoning & sources
Together Computer, Inc. is not a named target in the checked lists, but BDS uses selective campaigns, so absence cannot establish a clean record. Your selected model, cloud and billing route can introduce other companies into the purchase.
This review covers the named targets in the BNC consumer/pressure guide and No Tech campaign, not every BDS campaign, local group, investment or supplier. Lists and ownership can change. A company’s absence from these lists is not an endorsement or proof that it has no relevant relationships.