Cerebrium vs Modal

Side-by-side comparison of Cerebrium and Modal: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Cerebrium Serverless GPU infrastructure for real-time AI with sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling Visit	Modal High-performance AI infrastructure with sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling Visit
Category	AI infrastructure	AI infrastructure
Pricing	Paid	Freemium
Starting price		USD 30/mo
Free tier
Audience	Technical	Technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider
Founded		2021
Headquarters		San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Sub-second cold starts via GPU & memory snapshotting ·Elastic autoscaling across 2500+ GPUs and multiple regions ·No code rewrites — run any Dockerfile or entry point as-is ·SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO compliance with gVisor isolation	·Sub-second cold starts with instant container boot times ·Autoscale from 0 to 1000+ GPUs on demand with no capacity planning ·Python-native SDK — define infrastructure and logic in a single file ·Full support for inference, training, sandboxes, and batch processing