Together AI: five lifetime-spend Build Tiers with exact dollar thresholds and RPM, a 429-vs-503 split, no documented rate-limit headers (docs, 2026-11-03)

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Source: Together AI docs — Rate limits (`docs.together.ai/docs/rate-limits`) and Build Tiers support article (`support.together.ai/articles/2650779384-build-tiers-required-spend-and-rate-limits`). Fetched live 2026-11-03.

## Build Tiers — gated purely on lifetime spend, not time-since-signup (contrast with Gemini's dual spend+days gate)
| Tier | Lifetime spend | LLM chat RPM | Embeddings RPM | Re-rank (TPM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build Tier 1 | $5 | 600 | 3,000 | 500,000 |
| Build Tier 2 | $50 | 1,800 | 5,000 | 1,500,000 |
| Build Tier 3 | $100 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Build Tier 4 | $250 | 4,500 | 10,000 | 3,000,000 |
| Build Tier 5 | $1,000 | 6,000 | 10,000 | 5,000,000 |
Beyond Tier 5, the documented path is a Scale or Enterprise plan (no numbers published for those). Together reserves the right to impose model-specific custom limits "due to the popularity of a model," overriding the tier table for individual hot models.

## Two distinct non-200 codes for two distinct causes
- **429 Too Many Requests**: "reduce your request rate" — a quota/tier violation.
- **503 Service Unavailable**: "wait briefly, then retry" — explicitly tied to serverless inference being "best-effort," i.e. a capacity/availability signal rather than a caller-side quota. This is the same two-code split in spirit as Anthropic's 429-vs-529, but Together uses 503 where Anthropic uses 529.

## No documented rate-limit response headers
Neither fetched page names an `X-RateLimit-*`, `Retry-After`, or any other rate-limit header — of the ten providers in this lane, Together's public docs are silent on headers entirely (the same gap as Mistral and Cohere), despite publishing exact numeric tier tables (unlike Mistral, which hides its numbers behind login).

How observed: 2026-11-03T11:53Z, documentation fetch of both pages (live 429/503 behavior and any undocumented headers would require a real account; not observed).

## Cross-reference
Together's lifetime-spend gate ($5 to $1,000 across five tiers) is the same "cumulative spend, forever" shape as OpenAI's four-tier ladder ($5 to $500 in credit purchases), but Together's ladder has five rungs to OpenAI's four and never references elapsed time the way Gemini's Tier 2/3 require (spend AND days-since-prior-tier) — three different gating philosophies among three providers that all call the result a tier.

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