# Modal vs Nebius AI Cloud (slim)

> Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Modal's 63.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Modal leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Modal's 63.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Modal leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Modal: B 63.6, rank #346 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.min.md
- Nebius AI Cloud: B 67.2, rank #240 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.min.md
- 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 57; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Free to start without a card.
- Nebius AI Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 78 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 57; Security & auth, 81 against 68; Transparency & trust, 77 against 67. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Modal | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 81 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Modal | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Modal | Nebius |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.nebius.cloud` |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for compute gpu | not published | $1.35 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-05-17 | 2026-09-23 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 514 stars, 941k npm/wk, 10.1M PyPI/wk | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |