# Massed Compute vs Modal (slim)

> Modal scores 63.6 (B) to Massed Compute's 42.3 (E) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Modal scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Massed Compute's 42.3 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do gpu compute.

- Massed Compute: E 42.3, rank #896 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.min.md
- Modal: B 63.6, rank #382 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.min.md
- Massed Compute, good for Agents that rent whole GPU VMs by the hour for training, fine-tuning or a model server and want a small MCP tool set with a read-only mode. 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 20; Security & auth, 68 against 61; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 51; Transparency & trust, 67 against 61. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Massed Compute loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Massed Compute | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 51 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Massed Compute | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Massed Compute | Modal |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for gpu compute | $5.43 per GPU-hour | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Massed Compute's Terms & Conditions and End User Licence Agreement. The `massed-compute-mcp` wrapper on GitHub is MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Massed-Compute/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-24 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-05-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-22 | 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 | 1 stars | 514 stars, 941k npm/wk, 10.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |