Together AI: Match Inference Bottlenecks to Your Traffic Shape
The practical shift here is treating provider benchmarks as workload-specific rather than universal — a provider that wins on decode speed can lose badly on prefill-heavy or agent workloads. Engineering teams evaluating inference vendors or deciding between self-hosting and APIs should benchmark with traces from their own traffic before committing. Concrete comparison: run the same prompt set against at least two providers and measure the metric matching your traffic shape, not aggregate throughput.
