# Together AI — How to choose the right open model for production

- Company: Together AI (together.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Inference platform
- Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-open-model-for-production
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2390-how-to-choose-the-right-open-model-for-production

The article provides guidance on selecting open models for production workloads, discussing reasons to choose open models (transparency, adaptability, control), legal considerations, model size guidelines, tradeoffs between cost, speed, and quality, and evaluation methods.

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Verbatim from https://www.together.ai/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-open-model-for-production:

> How do you choose the right open model for your workload?

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