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Reviewers are uniformly positive, though the feedback is almost entirely from founders describing their own use. The clearest pattern is that Modal makes heavy compute and sandboxed workloads feel simple to ship: teams say they can define jobs, scaling, and isolated environments in Python, get fast spin-up and cold starts, and avoid managing GPUs, clusters, or broader infrastructure. Makers of Fathom, viktor.com, and Kodezi especially stress reliability, scale, and a low-friction developer experience.
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Tines The single, secure environment for agents, apps, and automations.
Modals VM's power our AI agent environments, allowing them to view pull requests, inspect files, and even execute code! Thanks to the Modal team for prioritizing our feature requests and building a GREAT headless compute environment.
Serverless GPU infrastructure helps us scale to workloads of hundreds of H200s/B200s within seconds to maintain low latency for our retrieval models in a cost-effective way.
Modal helps us spin up Python workloads with speed and control. Great for agents that need to run fast, ephemeral jobs. A dream for short-lived compute without DevOps overhead.
For when you want to quickly spin-off a fine-tuned model from AnythingLLM. There is no easier way to build that pipeline we offer in-app than using Modal Labs for creating fine-tuning jobs on powerful GPUs for a fair price.
Viktor runs its agents server-side, 24/7, which means spinning up isolated sandboxes for thousands of teams at once and scaling back to zero the moment they go idle. We looked at rolling our own on Kubernetes and at the usual serverless suspects. Modal was the only one where a Python engineer could define the whole sandbox, schedule, and scaling story in code and ship it the same afternoon. It is a big part of why a small team can run this much compute without standing up a platform team to babysit it.
Huge shoutout to Modal! The cloud infrastructure made spinning up AI and ML tasks for ScaryStories.Live effortlessly. We couldn’t have scaled our real-time horror experiences without you. We’re truly grateful for your generous support in our early days!
Modal helped us train our model to generate human-like content, we developed state-of-the-art content engine that writes content indistinguishable from the one written by subject-expert human.
I chose Modal because it made running data-heavy workloads feel effortless. A lot of alternatives required more setup or infrastructure thinking, but with Modal I could just focus on the logic and let it handle the scaling and execution.
It’s been especially useful for processing environmental data in the background without worrying about servers. It strikes a really nice balance between power and simplicity, which made building and iterating on My!hū much smoother.