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ScaledThought vs Together AI

Looking for a Together AI alternative for open-weight models? Here is how ScaledThought and Together AI differ on API compatibility, getting a key, billing and prompt storage. What we say about Together AI comes from its own public pages, linked and dated beside each fact. For ScaledThought's prices, see /pricing.

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OpenAI-compatible API: ScaledThoughtAn OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models. Base URL https://api.us.scaledthought.com/v1; any OpenAI SDK works.; Together AIIts docs say its API is compatible with the OpenAI REST API and SDKs: change the API key and the base URL.Source: docs.together.ai/docs/inference/openai-compatibility ↗, read October 12, 2026
Getting an API key: ScaledThoughtAn agent signs up and gets a key itself: npx -y scaledthought@0.3 init. A person can also sign up on the US dashboard by email link.; Together AIIts docs say your API key is on your account's settings page, after you register an account.Source: docs.together.ai/docs/inference/openai-compatibility ↗, read October 12, 2026
How usage is paid: ScaledThoughtPrepaid credits, no subscription: the agent asks its human to approve a top-up through an approval link. Every key can have its own daily budget, and sub-agent keys stay within their parent's budget.; Together AIIts billing docs say it is fully prepaid and needs a positive credit balance. The minimum purchase is $15 for an organization's first purchase and $5 after that; auto-recharge is available with a card.Source: docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits ↗, read October 12, 2026
Prompts and completions: ScaledThoughtPrompts and completions are not stored or logged. Every response carries x-st-data-retention: none.; Together AIIts zero data retention page says that unless your organization enables zero data retention, it stores the prompts you send and the responses models return; zero data retention is not on by default.Source: docs.together.ai/docs/zero-data-retention ↗, read October 12, 2026

Also about ScaledThought

Regions: The US region is live. Canada is coming soon: when it opens, a Canadian account's data is processed and stored in Canada.
Models: Open-weight models through one API. The current list and prices are on /pricing and each live model's page, or run npx -y scaledthought@0.3 models --live, which lists them.

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