AI tool
Together Link
Together Link lets developers route their existing coding agents to open models on Together AI with a single command. It preserves your current agent setup, settings, and history while providing cost receipts and usage tracking for each session.
About Together Link
Together Link routes coding agents to open models on Together AI through a single-command setup. It preserves a developer's existing agent, login, settings, history, and workflow while proxying sessions to open models. The tool is free and open source, with model usage billed through Together AI's per-token pricing.
Review
Together Link tackles a specific friction point: developers who want to experiment with open models don't want to abandon their current coding agent setup. The tool acts as a proxy layer, so you keep Claude Code, Codex, or whichever agent you're already using, but the underlying model work gets routed to Together AI's open model catalog. It's a narrow-scope utility, not a full platform play.
Key Features
- Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, ChatGPT Desktop, OpenCode, and Pi without changing agent configuration
- Auto Router sends tasks to appropriate open models automatically, or you can pick a specific model
- Access to models including Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and MiniMax M3
- Cost receipt generated for each proxied session, with spending tracked across sessions
- Single-command installation that doesn't require manually editing agent config files
Pricing and Value
Together Link itself is free and open source. Model usage costs are billed through Together AI at per-token rates. The tool shows what each session costs, so developers can compare expenses directly against their previous setup. No subscription fees or separate pricing tiers exist for the proxy layer.
Pros
- Switching back to your original setup works immediately-no lock-in or permanent config changes
- Cost visibility per session makes it straightforward to measure savings against closed-model alternatives
- Installation requires one command and skips manual agent configuration edits
- Open-source codebase means the routing logic is inspectable and forkable
- Auto Router removes the guesswork of matching a task to the right open model
Cons
- Tool-calling fidelity depends entirely on the underlying open model; Together Link is a straight passthrough with no retry logic, schema coercion, or gap normalization
- Long coding tasks may expose performance differences between open models and closed alternatives like Claude or GPT in practice
- Not well suited for teams that rely heavily on multi-step function calling where open models still trail on reliability
Together Link fits developers who already have a coding agent they like and want to test open models without disrupting their workflow. It's most practical for shorter, cost-sensitive tasks where token savings outweigh any fidelity tradeoffs. Teams running complex, multi-step tool-calling workloads will need to evaluate the underlying open models carefully before switching, since the proxy layer itself doesn't bridge capability gaps.
