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Oxlo.ai vs Together AI

By Oxlo.ai Engineering team | Last updated: March 2026

Overview

Oxlo.ai is a drop-in replacement for Together AI with a fundamentally different pricing model. While Together AI charges per token - causing costs to scale linearly with prompt length - Oxlo.ai charges a flat request-based rate. For engineering teams running RAG pipelines, agents, or long-context window tasks, Oxlo.ai is significantly cheaper and offers more predictable billing. Both providers are fully OpenAI SDK compatible.

Cost Comparison: Request vs Token Pricing

Workload (1,000 API Calls)Together AI (Tokens)Oxlo.ai (Requests)Savings
1,000 requests (3,000 tokens/req on Llama 3 70B)$2.70$0.00 (Flat Daily Rate)~$81/mo
10,000 requests (8,000 tokens/req on Llama 3 70B)$72.00$0.00 (Flat Daily Rate)~$2,100/mo
50,000 requests (15,000 tokens/req on Qwen 72B)$675.00$0.00 (Flat Daily Rate)~$20,000/mo

* Estimates based on Premium tier ($49.90/mo for 2,000 requests/day). Token rates based on publicly available Together AI pricing as of 2026.

Switch in 5 Minutes

Oxlo.ai is fully compatible with the OpenAI SDK. Simply swap the base URL and API key.

Before (Together AI)

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://api.together.com/v1",
  api_key="your_api_key"
)

After (Oxlo.ai)

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://api.oxlo.ai/v1",
  api_key="oxlo_api_key"
)
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Frequently Asked Questions

The primary difference is the business model. Together AI counts every token processed and bills variably. Oxlo.ai uses a request-based SLA, meaning you purchase a fixed tier (e.g., $49.90/mo for 2000 requests per day) and every request costs the same, whether it generates 100 tokens or 10,000 tokens.

No. Both platforms emulate the OpenAI SDK API structure. To migrate, you only need to change your `base_url` to `https://api.oxlo.ai/v1` and swap your API key.

Oxlo.ai supports 40+ leading open-source models including Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen 3 32B, DeepSeek R1, Mistral, and multimodal vision and audio models. Many are the exact same weights hosted on Together AI.