Modal vs Hugging Face vs Replicate vs Cerebrium

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

Your tool
Modal
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Competitor 1
Hugging Face
Competitor 2
Replicate
Competitor 3
Cerebrium
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Competitor Hugging Face
huggingface.co
The GitHub for machine learning
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Competitor Replicate
replicate.com
Run open-source AI without managing servers
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Competitor Cerebrium
cerebrium.ai
Cerebrium is a serverless GPU platform for running AI workloads in production.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
972.8Kvisits/mo
31.2Mvisits/mo
1Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 5.7%
▲ 10.7%
▼ 3.1%
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6-month growth
+13.6%
+18.4%
-30.2%
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Global rank web
#43,856
#1,410
#39,584
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Avg. last 3 months
960K
28.8M
1.1M
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Bounce rate lower is better
37%
42%
35%
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Pages / visit
6.6
6.3
5.6
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Visit duration
5m 31s
5m 01s
5m 09s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 6%
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ModalHugging FaceReplicateCerebrium
07.8M15.6M23.4M31.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KHugging 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 · 31.2MReplicate · 1.6MReplicate · 1.7MReplicate · 1.5MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.5MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.2MReplicate · 1.1MReplicate · 1M100K1M10M100MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KHugging 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 · 31.2MReplicate · 1.6MReplicate · 1.7MReplicate · 1.5MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.5MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.3MReplicate · 1.2MReplicate · 1.1MReplicate · 1MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$250per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
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$100per month · free tier available
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Plans
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $9/moTeam $20/moStorage $8/mo+1 more
Public Models Custom/usage-basedPrivate Models Custom/usage-based
Hobby FreeStandard $100/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
AudioImagesTextVideo
ImagesText
Code
Output
Apps
Video3DAudioImagesText
VideoTextImagesAudio
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsLarge Language Models (LLMs)+1 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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9
4
Developer tools
APIs
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Image generation
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Performance optimization
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Video generation
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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.