Modal vs Mobilebox

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Modal compared with Mobilebox
Detail	Modal	Mobilebox
What it does	The platform for production AI	Mobile sandboxes for your AI agents controlled over REST API and MCP
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	US
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
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.	Cloud Android 14: $0.01 per phone-minute; iPhone and iPad: $0.05 per phone-minute; Real Android devices: $0.03 per phone-minute; Dedicated devices: from $79 per month. Billed per second with one-minute minimum. Boot time and parked phones free. New accounts start with $2 credit.
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	Cloud Android 14 phones (arm64) iPhone and iPad sandboxes Real Android devices REST API and MCP server Screen as numbered text elements Batch actions (tap, type, swipe up to 20 per call) Park and resume phones with state preserved Live view with step-by-step recording App installation and management Screenshot and text observation modes
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	Same API and MCP for Android, iPhone, iPad and real devices Agents interact with real apps like people do Boot time and parked phones are free Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any HTTP MCP client
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	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	0

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