Choosing Baseten vs Modal
Both Baseten and Modal let you run AI models on GPU hardware without setting up your own infrastructure. But Baseten’s enterprise-grade platform wins when performance, compliance, and reliability matter.
Compare Baseten to Modal
To get started quickly, Baseten offers the fastest whisper shared endpoint on the market. These are highly optimized and extremely performant.
Model deployment
SOC 2 Type II
HIPAA Compliance
Run models in your VPC
Available
Single tenant cloud
Available
Run Python on GPUs without thinking about Docker
Autoscaling model deployment
Support for any inference framework (TRT-LLM, VLLM)
Open source ML model packaging solution
Dedicated development environment with live reload
Model library with optimized production-ready models
GPU prices include generous CPU and RAM allocation
What is the product
Baseten specializes in fast, scalable inference for AI models on managed multi-cloud infrastructure or your own VPC.
Modal is a serverless platform for running AI models, batch jobs, job queues, and similar workloads on managed cloud infrastructure.
Who is it for
AI-native startups and enterprises like Descript, Bland, and Rime pick Baseten to power their core production infrastructure for serving AI models.
AI, data, and ML teams use Modal to power data-intensive applications.
How should I choose
For production inference workloads where latency, throughput, and uptime are critical, our customers love how Baseten enables them to go to market fast, scale for massive traffic, and deliver delightful user experiences at lower marginal costs by optimizing model performance.
Modal has a great team and a creative approach to containerizing Python workloads. But AI-native startups and enterprises choose Baseten for their model inference workloads for our best in class security, compliance, reliability, and performance.
Baseten vs Modal: how we're different
Model performance
Leverage our model performance team’s work for best in class latency and throughput on LLMs, image generation, audio transcription, and speech synthesis models.
Leverage our model performance team’s work for best in class latency and throughput on LLMs, image generation, audio transcription, and speech synthesis models.
Reliability
Baseten has industry-best reliability, check our status page to see our latest uptime metrics.
Baseten has industry-best reliability, check our status page to see our latest uptime metrics.
Security and compliance
Baseten is both SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. We offer region-specific deployments for data residency compliance.
Baseten is both SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. We offer region-specific deployments for data residency compliance.
Single-tenant cloud deployments
When necessary, we can deploy a fully managed single-tenant workload plane in your preferred region and cloud for additional security and data residency guarantees.
When necessary, we can deploy a fully managed single-tenant workload plane in your preferred region and cloud for additional security and data residency guarantees.
Self-hosted model deployments
For customers with bespoke security needs, we can run all model inference workloads in your VPC in AWS or GCP.
For customers with bespoke security needs, we can run all model inference workloads in your VPC in AWS or GCP.
Hands-on technical support
Baseten has the best support in the business with custom POCs and hands-on technical support from dedicated forward-deployed engineers.
Baseten has the best support in the business with custom POCs and hands-on technical support from dedicated forward-deployed engineers.
We are constantly testing and iterating to build the best-in-class retrieval models. Baseten Training allows my team to focus fully on training without needing to worry about hardware and job orchestration. We moved all of our training jobs to Baseten so our researchers have more flexibility to build our foundational models. If we had this when we were first starting out it would have saved us a lot of time and headaches.
DJ Zappegos,
Engineering Manager
We are constantly testing and iterating to build the best-in-class retrieval models. Baseten Training allows my team to focus fully on training without needing to worry about hardware and job orchestration. We moved all of our training jobs to Baseten so our researchers have more flexibility to build our foundational models. If we had this when we were first starting out it would have saved us a lot of time and headaches.