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Together AI's closed-to-open migration playbook says replay production traffic instead of reading benchmarks
Together published a five-stage migration guide (discover, evaluate, adapt, decide, production) aimed at moving workloads off closed models in weeks to months, citing up to 70% cost reduction in some cases without publishing detailed price comparisons. Its concrete advice is to skip generic benchmarks and replay existing production traffic against candidates, then canary at 10% traffic. It tiers open models as frontier (GLM-5.3, Kimi K3), value (DeepSeek-V4 Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash) and small/edge (Qwen 3.8 27B, Muse Glimmer), pointing to The Open Frontier, Artificial Analysis, DeepSWE and Arena for evaluation data. Single-vendor source with an obvious commercial interest.
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