Baseten vs RunPod vs Vertex AI vs Modal

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

Your tool
Baseten
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Competitor 1
RunPod
Competitor 2
Vertex AI
Competitor 3
Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Baseten
baseten.co
Models to production fast
Competitor RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
Competitor Vertex AI
cloud.google.com
Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's machine learning and generative AI platform, now presented under the Agent Platform name.
Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
355.4Kvisits/mo
2.8Mvisits/mo
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972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 21.3%
▲ 14.2%
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▲ 5.7%
6-month growth
+73.3%
+19.0%
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+13.6%
Global rank web
#113,597
#19,060
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#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
304.6K
2.5M
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960K
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
32%
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37%
Pages / visit
4.1
7.4
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6.6
Visit duration
1m 53s
8m 19s
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5m 31s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 9%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
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● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
BasetenRunPodVertex AIModal
0701.3K1.4M2.1M2.8MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8K100K1M10MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MModal · 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
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Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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$250per month · free tier available
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Plans
Basic CustomPro CustomEnterprise Custom
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
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Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextAudio
DataCode
VideoTextImagesDocumentsCode
Code
Output
TextImagesAudio
Apps
TextImagesCode
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web service deployment
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Fine-Tuning
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LLM development
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Performance optimization
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Prompt management
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.