# Crusoe Cloud vs Modal (slim)

> Modal and Crusoe Cloud score within a point of each other for gpu compute, 63.6 and 63.4 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Modal and Crusoe Cloud score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.6 (B) and 63.4 (B). Crusoe Cloud leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do gpu compute.

- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md
- Modal: B 63.6, rank #382 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.min.md
- Crusoe Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 74 against 68; Transparency & trust, 77 against 67. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- Modal, good for Python teams that want GPU functions, batch jobs and HTTP endpoints from one decorator with scale to zero. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 57 against 45; Maintenance & community, 85 against 76. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Crusoe Cloud | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 45 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crusoe Cloud | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Crusoe | Modal |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 41 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-05-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2023-05-17 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 7 npm/wk | 514 stars, 941k npm/wk, 10.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |