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Reviewers are overwhelmingly positive, though the feedback comes almost entirely from founders rather than everyday users. The repeated theme is that Modal makes heavy compute feel simple: teams say they can define sandboxes, jobs, scaling, and GPU workloads in Python, ship quickly, and avoid managing clusters or servers. Makers of Fathom, viktor.com, and Kodezi highlight fast spin-up, reliable sandboxes, clean serverless workflows, and an especially strong developer experience for training, inference, and background compute.
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BrunoThe Git-native API client. Local-first, open source.
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.
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.
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.
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!