Modal vs openagent.email

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Modal compared with openagent.email
Detail	Modal	openagent.email
What it does	The platform for production AI	Self-hosted email and task handoffs for AI agents with no vendor control plane
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Paid	Open source
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.	Self-hosted is free under Apache-2.0 license (pay only for VPS infrastructure ~$5/month and domain ~$10/year). Hosted Pro Early Bird: $30.00/year one-time payment, no auto-renewal.
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	MCP 2026-07-28 support for Claude, Cursor, Kimi Code and other clients Unlimited agent mailboxes on your own domain Email-backed agent-to-agent task threads with stamped states
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	Apache-2.0 open source with no vendor control plane or per-inbox software fees Mail stays on your server under your control unless you explicitly opt into external services Built-in OTP extraction tested against real services from US and Chinese providers
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	4 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	3
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	28

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