# Modal

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/modal
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/modal.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/modal/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://modal.com
- **Slug:** modal
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Provides a 'local feel' developer experience with industry-leading sub-second cold starts for GPU-intensive applications.
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Modal is an AI infrastructure platform that enables developers to run inference, training, and batch processing in the cloud. It features a serverless architecture designed for high-performance workloads with sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling, allowing code to feel local while executing on remote GPUs.
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Serverless GPU platform
  - AI infrastructure
  - batch processing engine
  - model hosting.
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** AI startups, machine learning engineers, data scientists, enterprise AI labs.
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Replicate
  - Baseten
  - RunPod
  - Lambda Labs (Serverless)
Source: Brand's website (https://modal.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.