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Employment Hero vs Together AI

Employment Hero logo

Employment Hero

HR & Recruiting

Australian HR, payroll and recruitment platform for employment management

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Together AI

AI Tools

Open-source AI at scale

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Together AI has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Employment Hero hR Essentials at AUD 10/employee/month requires a minimum of 10 users, so it cannot be bought for a team smaller than that even if actual headcount is lower; Together AI fine tuning carries a minimum charge of $4.00 per job regardless of dataset size

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Employment Hero and Together AI actually diverge.

Attributes where Employment Hero and Together AI differ
AttributeEmployment HeroTogether AI
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelsubscriptionusage-based
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebApi, Cloud
CategoryHR & RecruitingAI Tools
FoundedUnknown2022

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Employment Hero

Nothing recorded that Together AI does not also cover.

Only in Together AI

  • Open-source models
  • Fine-tuning
  • Fast inference
  • Embeddings
  • REST API
  • Python SDK
  • OpenAI compatible
  • Api support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Employment Hero

No use cases recorded yet. See the Employment Hero review.

Together AI

  • Serverless inference against open source chat, vision, embedding, image and video modelsnot Employment Hero
  • Renting dedicated single tenant H100, H200 or B200 GPU clusters by the hournot Employment Hero
  • Fine tuning open weight models on a per token basisnot Employment Hero

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Employment Hero

  • HR Essentials at AUD 10/employee/month requires a minimum of 10 users, so it cannot be bought for a team smaller than that even if actual headcount is lower
  • Core features like payroll, chat and rostering are unbundled add-ons billed separately per employee, for example Managed Payroll costs an extra AUD 20/employee/month with a AUD 400 monthly minimum

Together AI

  • Fine tuning carries a minimum charge of $4.00 per job regardless of dataset size
  • Reserved GPU commitments beyond 180 days are priced by contacting sales with no published rate
  • Volume and enterprise discounts are quote only with no published threshold
  • Reserved dedicated inference pricing is contact sales while only on demand rates of $5.49 to $8.99 per GPU hour are published

Pricing, plan by plan

Employment Hero

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Employment Hero review.

Together AI

Free
  • FreeFree
    • $5 credits
    • API access
  • Pay-per-use$0.2/per-million-tokens
    • All models
    • Fine-tuning

Which should you pick?

Choose Employment Hero if

Nothing in the data separates Employment Hero from Together AI on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Employment Hero review

Choose Together AI if

  • You need open-source models.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Api, Cloud.
  • You also want fine-tuning.
Together AI review

Questions people ask

Is Employment Hero or Together AI better?
Neither clearly leads. Employment Hero starts at On request and Together AI at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Employment Hero or Together AI?
Together AI has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Employment Hero and Free for Together AI.
Does Employment Hero or Together AI run on more platforms?
Employment Hero runs on Web. Together AI runs on Api, Cloud.
Can I use Together AI for free?
Yes. Together AI has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Employment Hero starts at On request.
What can Employment Hero do that Together AI cannot?
Together AI covers Open-source models, Fine-tuning, Fast inference, Embeddings.
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