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Baseten vs Modal
Baseten or Modal? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Runs models for you
- Only Baseten states: Self-hosted
- Only Modal states: Agent that edits files, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
Baseten
Baseten provides managed infrastructure to deploy, serve, train, and distribute open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models.
Plans
Basic
Free
- Dedicated deployments
- Model APIs
- Training
- Fast cold starts
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
- Email and in-app chat support
Dedicated Deployments — T4
- $0.01052 per minute
- 16 GiB VM
Dedicated Deployments — L4
- $0.01414 per minute
- 24 GiB VRAM
Dedicated Deployments — A10G
- $0.02012 per minute
- 24 GiB VM
Dedicated Deployments — A100
- $0.06667 per minute
- 80 GiB VRAM
Dedicated Deployments — H100 MIG
- $0.0625 per minute
- 40 GiB VRAM
Dedicated Deployments — H100
- $0.10833 per minute
- 80 GiB VRAM
Dedicated Deployments — B200
- $0.16633 per minute
- 180 GiB VRAM
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “You can deploy open source and custom models on Baseten.” source
- Self-hosted — “Yes, you can self-host Baseten in order to manage security and use your own cloud commitments.” source
- API — “Model APIs” source
- Runs models for you — “Instant access to pre-optimized models running on the Baseten Inference Stack.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
- SOC 2 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
- ISO 27001 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. ISO 27001 Certificate.pdf” source
- GDPR — “SOC 2 ISO 27001:2022 HIPAA CCPA GDPR PCI DSS - SAQ D” source
- HIPAA — “Baseten Labs, Inc. HIPAA Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
Latest updates
- Web search with Baseten Hosted Tools
Baseten Hosted Tools now brings server-side web search to Model APIs through Baseten Grounded Inference.
- Baseten CLI 1.0.0 (1.0.0)
The Baseten CLI is now generally available. Version 1.0.0 marks the command surface as stable.
- Model API Deprecation (GLM 4.7, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K2.6, Inkling, Inkling Small, DeepSeek v4 Pro)
GLM 4.7, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K2.6, Inkling, Inkling Small, and DeepSeek v4 Pro will be deprecated at 5pm PT September 25th.
Modal
Modal is a serverless cloud platform for running AI inference, training, batch jobs, and isolated code sandboxes.
Plans
Starter
Free
- $30 / month free compute
- 3 workspace seats included
- 100 containers + 10 GPU concurrency
- Scheduled and Web Functions (limited)
- Real-time metrics and logs
- Region selection
Team
- $250 + compute / month
- $100 / month free compute
- Unlimited seats
- 5000 containers + 50 GPU concurrency
- Unlimited Scheduled Functions
- Custom domains
- Static IP proxy
Enterprise
Price on request
- Volume-based discounts
- Unlimited seats
- Higher GPU concurrency
- Embedded ML engineering services
- Environment-level budgets
- Support via private Slack
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Agent that edits files — “Autonomous agents with the right tools, context, and credentials already in place — running securely in a full, isolated dev environment.” source
- Choice of models — “Run any model or inference engine on H100s, A100s, A10Gs and more.” source
- API — “Serve your own LLM API” source
- Official SDKs — “Modal SDK” source
- Runs models for you — “Deploy and scale inference for LLMs, audio, image/video generation.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Designed to scale agents.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Debug fast by zooming into metrics, logs, and live statuses of specific inference calls.” source
Latest updates
- Network egress usage broken down by app
The Usage page now shows network egress per app.
- New controls for unauthenticated web endpoints
Filter by authentication, audit unauthenticated deployments, and block them per environment.
- User groups for RBAC-enabled workspaces
Assign environment roles to groups of members, created manually or synced from your identity provider via SCIM.