Modal vs camelAI

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Modal compared with camelAI
Detail	Modal	camelAI
What it does	The platform for production AI	Open-source home for AI agents
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	Not given	2022
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
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.	camelBot: free to start, no credit card required, credit packs from $4.99. camelRun: $0.01 per agent-hour of active run time, $0.10 per GB-month for storage, tokens free on your own provider keys or at provider's price on camelAI's keys with no markup. camelCode: free plan with your own model API ke
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	Define agent model, instructions, tools and channels Open-source AI agent runtime with Docker and Postgres self-hosting AI agent history and file storage Connect tools with OpenAPI, MCP, or custom code Deploy to Slack, Discord, Telegram, GitHub, or custom apps Sandboxed code execution for agents Support for multiple AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock Custom Discord bot building with testing before publishing
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	Thousands of agents at once without talking to sales Open source agent runtime available for self-hosting Agents survive crashes and deploys without losing history or pending work
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)	81 +1 (up) since last check	58 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	9
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	36
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	343

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