Baseten vs OpenRouter vs Hugging Face vs Modal

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Baseten
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OpenRouter
Competitor 2
Hugging Face
Competitor 3
Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Baseten
baseten.co
Models to production fast
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Competitor OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Hugging Face
huggingface.co
The GitHub for machine learning
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
355.4Kvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
31.2Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 21.3%
▲ 14.6%
▲ 10.7%
▲ 5.7%
6-month growth
+73.3%
+39.6%
+18.4%
+13.6%
Global rank web
#113,597
#2,023
#1,410
#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
304.6K
19.5M
28.8M
960K
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
32%
42%
37%
Pages / visit
4.1
7.7
6.3
6.6
Visit duration
1m 53s
6m 13s
5m 01s
5m 31s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 9%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
BasetenOpenRouterHugging FaceModal
07.8M15.6M23.4M31.2MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MHugging Face · 21.9MHugging Face · 24MHugging Face · 24.9MHugging Face · 23.3MHugging Face · 26.4MHugging Face · 30.3MHugging Face · 27.4MHugging Face · 27.1MHugging Face · 28.2MHugging Face · 31.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8K100K1M10M100MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MHugging Face · 21.9MHugging Face · 24MHugging Face · 24.9MHugging Face · 23.3MHugging Face · 26.4MHugging Face · 30.3MHugging Face · 27.4MHugging Face · 27.1MHugging Face · 28.2MHugging Face · 31.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Free tier
$9per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
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Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $9/moTeam $20/moStorage $8/mo+1 more
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextAudio
AudioImagesTextVideo
ImagesVideoTextAudio
Code
Output
TextImagesAudio
AudioImagesTextVideo
VideoTextImagesAudio3D
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsLarge Language Models (LLMs)+1 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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