Modal
AI infrastructure that developers love
Modal is a serverless cloud platform designed for AI teams to deploy, scale, and manage machine learning workloads. It offers sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, and a developer-friendly Python-first experience with 100x faster initialization than Docker.
Funktionen
✓ Programmable infrastructure (no YAML)
✓ Sub-second cold starts
✓ Elastic GPU scaling
✓ Multi-cloud support
✓ Unified observability
✓ 100x faster than Docker
✓ Globally distributed storage
✓ Python-first API
✓ Automatic scaling to zero
Vorteile
- + Extremely fast cold starts
- + No infrastructure management
- + Python decorators for deployment
- + Generous free tier
- + Great developer experience
Nachteile
- − Python-only (no other languages)
- − Vendor lock-in concerns
- − Limited to Modal's runtime
- − Debugging distributed code can be complex