Modal vs vLLM

FeatureModalvLLM
CategoryAI DevelopmentLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingPay-per-use + $30 free/moFree (open-source)
GitHub Stars—45,000
PlatformsWebLinux
Features
  • ✓ Serverless GPU
  • ✓ Container orchestration
  • ✓ Cron jobs
  • ✓ Web endpoints
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ PagedAttention
  • ✓ Continuous batching
  • ✓ Tensor parallelism
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
  • ✓ Multi-GPU
  • ✓ Quantization
Tags
serverlessgpucloudinfrastructure
open-sourceinferenceservinggpuhigh-throughput