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Together AI — free tier setup
What you get free
Caveat first: the free offer is unconfirmed on official pages. Together is a pay-per-use inference host; the catalog's free claim rests on the Free-LLM seed repo only: "Subject to availability | Free research models | Free (Apriel series) | Free forever (research)". Together's official serverless models page (fetched 2026-07-17) lists no free models — every model shows a per-token price — and the official rate-limits docs say only that "Dynamic rate limits adjust with usage, so there are no fixed per-model limits published." Category: conditional_free — treat this as "possibly free Apriel research models, verify in the console before depending on it."
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (3 steps) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown |
The rest of this guide — the key-obtain walkthrough, first request, the limits that will bite you, and the rotation runbook — ships with the Indie field library. What you’ve read above is the real first section, not a blurred preview; the remainder simply isn’t in this page.