# Modal

Modal is a cloud platform for running AI workloads written in Python. Its Inference product serves LLMs and other models on GPUs from real-time endpoints to batch jobs, and its Sandboxes run isolated environments for coding agents, reinforcement learning rollouts and untrusted code. Its Training product covers fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on GPUs, and it bills compute per second of use.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/modal · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: New York City, NY, United States
- Employees: 201–500
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series D
- Deployment: Serverless cloud capacity pooled from more than 20 cloud providers, with regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other areas.
- Best for: Startups, independent developers and larger teams that run GPU inference, fine-tuning or agent sandboxes and want to pay only for compute used.
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA

## Products

- Inference: Serves LLMs, image, video and audio models from real-time endpoints to batch jobs, with an OpenAI-compatible shared endpoint and dedicated endpoints.
- Sandboxes: Isolated environments for coding agents, reinforcement learning rollouts and untrusted code, scaling to a million concurrent sandboxes.
- Training: Fine-tuning, reinforcement learning and model evaluation on GPUs, from single-GPU runs to multi-node clusters.
- Functions: Serverless compute for Python code that fans out across thousands of GPUs or CPUs and can be exposed as HTTPS endpoints.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLOps Platforms | 36 of 61 | 1.3 | 3 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| google_ai_mode | 3.9 | 11.1% |
| perplexity | 0.0 | 0.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Modal AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/modal, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).