Modal vs Baseten

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Modal compared with Baseten
Detail	Modal	Baseten
What it does	The platform for production AI	Inference platform for deploying AI models in production
Stage	Not given	Established
Founded	Not given	2019
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	usage-based	usage-based
Pricing	Starter 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.	Baseten offers three pricing tiers: Basic (pay-as-you-go starting at $0/month), Pro (with volume discounts available), and Enterprise (with custom SLAs and volume discounts). Compute pricing varies by GPU type, ranging from $0.00058/minute for CPU instances to $0.16633/minute for B200 GPUs. Model AP
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	Dedicated inference deployments Pre-optimized model APIs Multi-cloud deployment Self-hosted and hybrid options Training infrastructure with Loops SDK Baseten Chains for compound AI Advanced caching and decoding techniques Baseten Embeddings Inference (BEI) Forward-deployed engineering support HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II compliance
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	99.99% uptime with cross-cloud high availability Fastest embeddings with 2x higher throughput Pay only for compute in use, not idle time Optimized inference stack with custom kernels and latest decoding techniques
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	80 no change since last check	76 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	34
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	52
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	4223

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