Using DBRX Instruct on Together AI

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Together AI exposes DBRX Instruct through model ID dbrx-instruct. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Together AI and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Together AI SDK or REST API to call dbrx-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.20/1M input, $1.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install together
API key
TOGETHER_API_KEY
Model ID
dbrx-instruct

Together uses "organization/model-name" format, e.g. "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct" or "Qwen/QwQ-32B". See the Together model catalog for the exact ID.

from together import Together

client = Together()  # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="dbrx-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Together AI

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.20
Output tokens$1.20

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct, developed by Databricks, is a cutting-edge large language model designed for various natural language processing tasks. It excels in text summarization, question answering, information extraction, and code generation, utilizing a fine-grained mixture-of-experts architecture with 132 billion parameters. With advanced features like rotary position encodings, gated linear units, and grouped query attention, it performs exceptionally across multiple benchmarks, even outperforming some closed-source models. Trained on a vast 12 trillion token dataset, it supports contexts up to 32,000 tokens. Although primarily effective in English, its multilingual strength isn't fully explored.

Model Specs

Released2024-03-27
Parameters132B
Context32k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

Together AI

San Francisco, California, United States