Modal records 1,196,021 monthly visits with +30.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Thunder Compute records 102,147 monthly visits with -29% growth and Paid (per-minute instances, per-second sandboxes) pricing.
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Low-cost cloud GPUs with per-minute instances and per-second sandboxes for AI workloads.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | modal.com | thundercompute.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Paid (per-minute instances, per-second sandboxes) |
| Monthly Visits | 1.2M (1,196,021) | 102.15K (102,147) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +277.18K (+30.2%) | -41.66K (-29%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (43.9%) | 🇺🇸 United States (53.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 845.64K | 40.74K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| 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.
Low-cost cloud GPUs with per-minute instances and per-second sandboxes for AI workloads.
Launch RTX A6000, L40, A100 80GB, or H100 SXM machines, often ready to SSH into within minutes, and pay only while they run.
Spin up isolated Ubuntu VMs with or without a GPU for RL rollouts, evals, and CI, billed per second and scaled to zero between runs.
A CLI, VS Code extension, MCP server, and REST API let you drive infrastructure from a terminal, an editor, an AI agent, or your own services.
Save an instance disk as a snapshot and restore it later, so you can pause experiments without leaving machines running.
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.
The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
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
An AI-native cloud built from silicon to API for training, tuning, and serving models
An AI-native cloud built from silicon to API for training, tuning, and serving models
Easier model packaging via Cog, but offers less arbitrary serverless Python container execution than Modal.
Easier model packaging via Cog, but offers less arbitrary serverless Python container execution than Modal.
Free / Open-sourceDistributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs
Free / Open-sourceDistributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs
SpecialistLow-cost serverless inference APIs for 200+ open models
Free / Open-sourceThe AI cloud built by the creators of PyTorch Lightning
Free / Open-sourceThe AI cloud built by the creators of PyTorch Lightning
Free / Open-sourceOne cloud for 200+ model APIs, agent sandboxes and GPU compute
Gigawatt-scale AI compute, built and operated end to end
SpecialistManaged Ray platform for scaling AI workloads
