Together Dedicated Endpoints
Overview
Use dedicated endpoints for managed single-tenant model hosting with predictable performance and no shared serverless pool.
Typical fits:
- production inference with stable latency
- fine-tuned model hosting
- uploaded custom model hosting
- autoscaled model APIs
When This Skill Wins
- The user needs always-on or single-tenant hosting
- The model is supported for dedicated deployment
- Fine-tuned or uploaded models must be served as endpoints
- Hardware, scaling, or idle-time settings need explicit control
Hand Off To Another Skill
- Use
together-chat-completionsfor serverless chat inference - Use
together-dedicated-containersfor custom runtimes or nonstandard inference pipelines - Use
together-gpu-clustersfor raw infrastructure or cluster orchestration
Quick Routing
- Create and manage a standard endpoint
- Start with scripts/manage_endpoint.py or scripts/manage_endpoint.ts
- Read references/api-reference.md
- Lifecycle tuning or troubleshooting
- Read references/api-reference.md
- Deploy a fine-tuned model
- Start with scripts/deploy_finetuned.py
- Read references/dedicated-models.md
- Upload and deploy a custom model
- Start with scripts/upload_custom_model.py
- Read references/dedicated-models.md
- Hardware and sizing choices
- Read references/hardware-options.md
Workflow
- Confirm that the task needs dedicated hosting instead of serverless or containers.
- Verify model eligibility and inspect available hardware.
- Create the endpoint with explicit scaling and timeout settings.
- Wait for readiness before sending inference traffic.
- Stop or delete the endpoint when the workload no longer needs to run.
High-Signal Rules
- Python scripts require the Together v2 SDK (
together>=2.0.0). If the user is on an older version, they must upgrade first:uv pip install --upgrade "together>=2.0.0". - Model eligibility and hardware availability are gating constraints; check them early.
- Endpoint management uses endpoint IDs, while inference usually uses the endpoint name as
model. - Autoscaling, auto-shutdown, prompt caching, and speculative decoding materially affect operations and cost.
- For custom or fine-tuned models, do not skip the intermediate verification steps before deployment.
Resource Map
- API reference: references/api-reference.md
- Operational controls and troubleshooting: references/api-reference.md
- Dedicated model guide: references/dedicated-models.md
- Hardware guide: references/hardware-options.md
- Python endpoint lifecycle: scripts/manage_endpoint.py
- TypeScript endpoint lifecycle: scripts/manage_endpoint.ts
- Fine-tuned deployment: scripts/deploy_finetuned.py
- Custom model upload and deployment: scripts/upload_custom_model.py