Comparison
Frontière AI vs Together AI: the EU-sovereign alternative
Together AI and Frontière AI are both curated, but they sit under different legal systems. Together Computer, Inc. is a San Francisco company running its own infrastructure, which gives it consistent performance and a broad catalog including fine-tuning and training — on Llama 3.3 70B it publishes €0.90 ($1.04) per million input tokens before tax, against our €1.512 VAT included. Excluding VAT on both sides (Frontière AI: €1.26 in / €1.26 out per million), on this model Together AI is cheaper on both input and output. What owning your own hardware does not change is who can compel access to it: a US-incorporated company remains subject to US legal process under the CLOUD Act. Frontière AI is a French company: its 19 sovereign models run at EU providers with no non-EU capital control, the others are labeled fast access (US) before you call them, and it stores no prompts at all. Pick Together AI for breadth and training; pick Frontière AI when you have to answer for jurisdiction rather than just for data location.
Side by side
Every row below comes from the other side's own published pages, checked on 2026-08-06 and linked at the end of this section — not from a third-party comparison.
| Criterion | Frontière AI | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| Operating company | FLEECE AI SASU | Together Computer, Inc. |
| Headquarters | France | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Governing law | French / EU law | State of California |
| US CLOUD Act exposure | Inference on the 19 sovereign models runs at EU companies; requests transit the gateway on Vercel (US company, Paris region, no prompt or response stored) | Yes — US-incorporated company, regardless of where inference runs |
| How the catalog works | Curated catalog, 26 models live, each with a named primary provider | Direct provider running its own infrastructure, plus fine-tuning and training |
| Llama 3.3 70B, per 1M tokens (in / out) | €1.512 / €1.512 incl. VAT (€1.26 / €1.26 excl. VAT) | €0.90 ($1.04) / €0.90 ($1.04) excl. tax |
| Prompt storage | Never stored by Frontière AI — only token counts and the amount charged. Sovereign providers: OVHcloud zero retention; Scaleway none except error or abuse requests, up to two weeks; fast-access models: the serving provider's own policy | Zero Data Retention available as an opt-in setting; no training on customer data without explicit consent |
| Jurisdiction visible per model | Yes — sovereign / fast access, on the card and in the API response | No EU data residency documented in the privacy policy; transfers covered by standard contractual clauses |
Prices published in USD, shown converted at 1 USD = 0.8655 EUR (rate of 2026-08-05) alongside the original figure. Together AI's terms (section 6.3) say all amounts payable are exclusive of sales, use and other taxes (checked on 2026-09-23). Frontière AI publishes in EUR, margin and VAT included — the amount actually debited — so the price verdicts on this page compare both sides excluding VAT (our price ÷ 1.2, French VAT).
About the price Together AI runs its own infrastructure and sets its own prices. Frontière AI serves this model through Scaleway, an EU sovereign provider, with a fixed margin. Excluding VAT on both sides (Frontière AI: €1.26 in / €1.26 out per million), on this model Together AI is cheaper on both input and output. The comparison varies from model to model: the sovereign EU compute market is smaller and often more expensive than the US hyperscaler market, and a provider that amortises its costs across thousands of customers and several product lines can price commodity models aggressively. You pay for EU jurisdiction, not a premium on identical silicon.
Sources, checked on 2026-08-06: together.ai — pricing · together.ai — privacy policy · together.ai — terms of service
Where Together AI is the better choice
- It runs its own infrastructure, so performance is consistent and does not depend on which third party picked up your request.
- Its catalog is broader than ours across model families and sizes.
- Fine-tuning and training are first-class products there; we only serve inference on a curated catalog.
- Zero Data Retention is available as an explicit setting, and the privacy policy states customer data is not used for training without opt-in consent.
Where Frontière AI is the better choice
- The operating company is French. There is no US parent, licensee or affiliate through which a US order could reach your data on the sovereign models.
- Every model carries its jurisdiction before you call it, in the catalog and in the API's own response — you never have to reconstruct who served a given request.
- API prompts and completions are never written to our database — only the token counts billing requires, and that is the default rather than a setting to find. Our web console follows the same rule: conversations stay in your browser.
- Prices are published in euros, margin and VAT included, so the figure you read is the figure you are billed — US providers publish before tax.
How to choose, concretely
The two are not mutually exclusive, and for most teams the honest answer is to use both:
- Fine-tuning, custom weights, high-volume commodity inference: Together AI does things we deliberately do not.
- Regulated, personal or client data — anything a DPO signs off on: pick the models whose operator jurisdiction is settled, not just the contractual safeguards.
- Zero Data Retention and EU jurisdiction answer different questions. The first limits what a provider keeps; the second limits who can compel it. A workload that needs both needs the second one to be structural.
FAQ
Is Together AI GDPR-compliant?
Together AI documents the mechanisms GDPR asks for: standard contractual clauses for international transfers, data subject rights, an opt-in Zero Data Retention setting, and no training on customer data without consent. What none of that addresses is jurisdictional reach: Together Computer, Inc. is a California company, so US legal process under the CLOUD Act applies to data it controls. Compliance paperwork and jurisdictional exposure are separate axes.
Is Frontière AI cheaper than Together AI?
On Llama 3.3 70B, Together AI publishes €0.90 ($1.04) in / €0.90 ($1.04) out per million tokens before tax, against €1.512 / €1.512 VAT included on Frontière AI. Excluding VAT on both sides (Frontière AI: €1.26 in / €1.26 out per million), on this model Together AI is cheaper on both input and output. Our prices include a fixed margin over what named providers charge us, and sovereign EU capacity is not the cheapest capacity on the market, so on other models the comparison can go the other way. The argument for Frontière AI is jurisdiction, not price.
Together AI offers Zero Data Retention — isn't that the same thing?
It answers a different question. Zero Data Retention limits what the provider keeps of your prompts, which is genuinely useful. Jurisdiction determines who can compel a company to hand over what it does hold or process, and under which legal process. A US company with retention disabled is still a US company. On Frontière AI, API prompts are not stored either — and the operating company is a French company with no US parent, and the sovereign models run at EU providers. The two properties are complementary, not interchangeable.
Does Together AI offer EU data residency?
Its published privacy policy does not document an EU residency or EU-region inference option, and states data may be transferred and maintained outside your country under standard contractual clauses. If EU-region processing matters to your policy, that is worth confirming with them directly rather than inferring it — we would rather point you at the question than answer it on their behalf.
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