Modal vs Dify

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Modal compared with Dify
Detail	Modal	Dify
What it does	The platform for production AI	The Platform for Production-Ready Agentic Workflows
Stage	Not given	Established
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	US
Pricing model	usage-based	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.	Sandbox (free), Professional ($590/year per workspace), Team ($1,590/year per workspace), and custom Enterprise pricing. Message credits included monthly.
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	Workflow Studio - Visual builder for agentic workflows Agent builder - Create agents with skills, tools, and knowledge Knowledge Pipeline - Prepare searchable knowledge bases Marketplace - Explore tools, models, and integrations Multi-deployment options - Cloud, VPC, or self-hosted Publish and monitor - Ship as app, API, or tool Visual execution path - Turn prompt logic into visible workflows Unified workspace - Bring AI stack into one platform Enterprise features - SSO, SAML, RBAC, audit logs
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	No-code platform that democratizes AI agent development for beginners Deploy from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack Unified workspace for agents, workflows, and knowledge pipelines Enterprise-ready with SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and compliance certifications
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	78 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	33
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	52
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	6338

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