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Modal compared with Aster
DetailModalAster
What it doesThe platform for production AI Intelligent Auto Routing
StageNot given Growing
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS Not given
Pricing modelusage-based usage-based
PricingStarter plan is free with $30/month compute credits. Team plan is $250/month plus compute. Enterprise plan is custom. Compute is billed per second for CPU, GPU, and memory with no charges for idle time. aster-work: $0.40 input / $0.80 output per million tokens. aster-code: $0.80 input / $1.60 output per million tokens. No subscription or seat fees. Prepaid credits start at $5 with no expiry. Routing included in product rates.
Key features
  • Serve LLMs, image, video, and audio models
  • Isolated environments for coding agents and RL rollouts
  • Fine-tune and train models on GPUs
  • Autoscale compute from zero to thousands of GPUs
  • Distributed storage for models and weights
  • Global capacity across 20+ clouds
  • Serverless functions with HTTPS endpoints
  • Out-of-the-box observability and logs
  • Task-aware model routing
  • Curated model collection
What makes it different
  • Custom infrastructure built for AI including container runtime, storage, and scheduler
  • Sub-second container startup times for GPU workloads
  • Pay only by the second with no idle charges
  • Programmatically create millions of concurrent sandboxes
  • Reinforcement learning router trained on real task data
  • 97.5% lower token cost vs frontier models
  • Same product name regardless of underlying model
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)80 no change since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)330
Citation Flow (Majestic)5311
Referring domains (Majestic)617423

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