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.


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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.

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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.

DJ Zappegos logoDJ Zappegos, Engineering Manager
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DJ Zappegos,

Engineering Manager