Modal records 1,196,021 monthly visits with +30.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Shutterstock AI Image Generator records 47,855,171 monthly visits with +3.2% growth and Paid pricing.
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Commercially licensed AI image generator aggregating frontier visual models with legal indemnification and stock asset integration.
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | modal.com | shutterstock.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 1.2M (1,196,021) | 47.86M (47,855,171) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +277.18K (+30.2%) | +1.49M (+3.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (43.9%) | 🇺🇸 United States (15.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 845.64K | 12.47M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Write plain Python, attach GPUs or containers, and deploy HTTPS endpoints that autoscale with traffic and scale to zero when idle.
Launch isolated, secure environments for coding agents, RL rollouts, and untrusted code, with sub-second starts and support for over a million concurrent sandboxes.
Run fine-tunes, LoRA, full training, and reinforcement learning on elastic single or multi-node GPU capacity with no quota requests.
Serve LLMs and image, video, or audio models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints, or bring your own inference stack and let Modal handle the infrastructure.
Commercially licensed AI image generator aggregating frontier visual models with legal indemnification and stock asset integration.
Provides single-dashboard access to leading third-party visual models—including OpenAI GPT Image 2, Google Imagen 4 Ultra, Gemini 3.1 Flash, and Runway Gen-4—with an automated recommender that matches prompts to the best engine.
Attaches a commercial Shutterstock Standard License and $10,000 legal indemnification to every downloaded AI image, with full human-reviewed indemnification available on Enterprise and Business tiers.
Includes browser-based inpainting, magic object erasure, background removal, image reference guidance, and aspect-ratio canvas expansion that routes royalties directly to the original contributor when editing stock photos.
Displays stock photos, vectors, 3D assets, and AI generation options in one workflow, complemented by official ChatGPT and Claude connectors for conversational asset discovery.
Commercially safe generative AI studio with built-in copyright indemnification and native stock asset ecosystem integration.
Commercially safe generative AI studio with built-in copyright indemnification and native stock asset ecosystem integration.
SpecialistE-commerce focused visual editor specializing in product photography background removal and generative scenes.
SpecialistE-commerce focused visual editor specializing in product photography background removal and generative scenes.
SpecialistAll-in-one creative studio combining AI generation with robust photo editing and design tools.
SpecialistAll-in-one creative studio combining AI generation with robust photo editing and design tools.
Industry-leading image generator producing higher-fidelity visuals, though lacking native stock asset libraries and commercial indemnification.
Industry-leading image generator producing higher-fidelity visuals, though lacking native stock asset libraries and commercial indemnification.
Stock photo platform combining traditional licensed media search with native AI image generation capabilities.
Stock photo platform combining traditional licensed media search with native AI image generation capabilities.
Stock media platform offering text-to-image generation backed by commercial licensing support.
Stock media platform offering text-to-image generation backed by commercial licensing support.
SpecialistExtremely fast serverless execution optimized specifically for generative media models rather than general Python code.
SpecialistExtremely fast serverless execution optimized specifically for generative media models rather than general Python code.
Provides flexible GPU infrastructure and serverless endpoints, though less focused on pure Python function decorators.
Provides flexible GPU infrastructure and serverless endpoints, though less focused on pure Python function decorators.
SpecialistGenerate images, video and audio at scale with 50+ AI models
SpecialistGenerate images, video and audio at scale with 50+ AI models
SpecialistFocuses heavily on managed open-source model inference APIs rather than arbitrary custom container execution.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on managed open-source model inference APIs rather than arbitrary custom container execution.
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Delivers robust enterprise GPU clusters and managed inference, requiring more infrastructure setup than Modal's serverless approach.
Delivers robust enterprise GPU clusters and managed inference, requiring more infrastructure setup than Modal's serverless approach.
