# Cerebrium vs Modal (slim)

> Modal scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Modal scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu.

- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #512 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Modal: B 63.6, rank #302 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.min.md
- Cerebrium, good for Teams serving their own models as real-time endpoints (voice, LLM, image) who want per-second billing, multi-region placement and a scriptable management API. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Modal, good for Python teams that want GPU functions, batch jobs and HTTP endpoints from one decorator with scale to zero. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 48; Agent ergonomics, 57 against 49; Security & auth, 68 against 60; Maintenance & community, 85 against 75. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Cerebrium | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cerebrium | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cerebrium Inc. | Modal |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2023-05-17 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 920 PyPI/wk | 514 stars, 941k npm/wk, 10.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |