ClearMLThe Infrastructure Platform For AI Builders

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Comparison · MLOps Platforms · weekly run Nov 2

ClearML vs Modal

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

ClearML is the stronger AI pick in MLOps Platforms: it has a visibility score of 20.6 versus 1.3 for Modal, and ranks ahead in 50% of the answers that name both.

Choose ClearML if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (20.6 vs 1.3)
You want a lower entry price ($15 vs $250)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
Per seat pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

Choose Modal if…

You need SOC 2 Type II or HIPAA coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (201–500 employees)
Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than per seat
Strong for scaling cutting-edge generative AI and multi-modal models

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	ClearML	Modal
Visibility score	20.6%	1.3%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in MLOps Platforms	#8	#36
Share of voice	4.5%	0.5%
Mentions this run	30	3
Positive in AI answers	43%	—

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

ClearML 0pp · Modal 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

ClearML leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

22.2%

AI Mode

14.3%

3.9%

Perplexity

25.2%

ClearMLModal

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

1ClearML ranked higher

1Modal ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	ClearML	Modal
What are the best MLOps Platforms tools in 2026?	AI Mode	#11	#5
Best MLOps platform for startups	AI Mode	#5	#7

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	ClearML	Modal
Pricing model	Per seat	Usage-based
Entry price	Free; paid from $15 per seat / mo	Free; paid from $250 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Hosted servers, self-hosted, or a managed service in a VPC, on-premises (including air-gapped) or hybrid.	Serverless cloud capacity pooled from more than 20 cloud providers, with regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other areas.
Compliance	—	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
Support	Dedicated Slack channel (Scale), Standard SLA (Scale), White-glove support with custom SLA (Enterprise), Professional services (Enterprise)	Modal Community Slack on Starter and Team plans, Private Slack support and embedded ML engineering services on Enterprise
Founded	2016	2021
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel	New York City, NY, United States
Employees	11–50	201–500
Funding	Series B (reported for parent Allegro AI, unverified, led by New Enterprise Associates) · $16M raised	Series D · $1200M raised
Best for	Individuals, researchers and small teams on the free plan, growing AI teams on Pro, and enterprises running GPU clusters for multiple large projects.	Startups, independent developers and larger teams that run GPU inference, fine-tuning or agent sandboxes and want to pay only for compute used.