ML platforms · Named, not rankedModal
Modal is a serverless GPU compute platform for running machine learning training and inference jobs without adopting a full cloud ML suite · modal.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Modal has 3.
Why models recommend it
“Start with open-source frameworks (PyTorch, Scikit-learn) paired with developer-centric infrastructure like Modal, RunPod, Hugging Face, or Lambdalabs”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“BentoML, Modal, or Anyscale (Ray) — Specialized tools that make API endpoint deployment”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Modal, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Modal's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale
- Price stated
- $30 / month free compute
- Starting price
- $0 + compute / month
- Free plan or trial
- $30 / month free compute
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- US West, US Central, US East, US South, EU West, EU North, South Asia Pacific, Northeast Asia Pacific
- Customers named
- DoorDash, Cognition, TypeSafe AI, Ramp, Reducto, AllenAI, Blend, Meta
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 2 of the 10 answers that named Modal and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Modal came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 67 | 0 | 2026-05-20 | ||
| Comparison | 11 | 0 | 2025-09-05 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2025-11-19 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2025-10-31 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2025-10-15 |
Most recent
- 2026-05-20Applied compute reinforcement learning blog
- 2026-04-08Physical intelligence runs real time remote inference for robotic control on modal blog
- 2026-03-26Runway chooses modal to power real time inference for runway characters blog
- 2026-02-19How ramp built a full context background coding agent on modal blog
- 2026-01-15Seamless computational bio at chai discovery blog
- 2025-12-16Deploy qwen chatbot vercel blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page modal.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.