Modal vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureModalAnthropic MCP
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Development
PricingPay-per-use + $30 free/moFree (open standard)
GitHub Stars—45,000
PlatformsWebmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ Serverless GPU
  • ✓ Container orchestration
  • ✓ Cron jobs
  • ✓ Web endpoints
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
serverlessgpucloudinfrastructure
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard