CoreWeave vs Lambda vs RunPod vs Modal

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

Your tool
CoreWeave
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Lambda
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RunPod
Competitor 3
Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool CoreWeave
coreweave.com
CoreWeave is a cloud built specifically for AI workloads, offering GPU and CPU compute, storage, networking, managed services and bare metal servers on NVIDIA hardware.
Competitor Lambda
lambda.ai
Lambda is a GPU cloud built for training and serving AI models.
Competitor RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.8Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 14.2%
▲ 5.7%
6-month growth
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+19.0%
+13.6%
Global rank web
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#19,060
#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
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2.5M
960K
Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
37%
Pages / visit
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7.4
6.6
Visit duration
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8m 19s
5m 31s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
CoreWeaveLambdaRunPodModal
0701.3K1.4M2.1M2.8MRunPod · 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 · 972.8K100K1M10MRunPod · 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
Paid
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Freemium
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Starting price
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$250per month · free tier available
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API access
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Plans
On-Demand GPU (e.g. HGX H100 8x) $49.24Spot GPU CustomCPU instances CustomStorage & networking Custom
On-demand instances (8x GPU) CustomOn-demand instances (1x GPU) Custom1-Click Clusters CustomReserved / Superclusters Custom
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeData
CodeData
CodeData
Code
Output
Apps
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Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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GPU infrastructure
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Cloud computing
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Inference
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Model training
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Performance optimization
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