Modal vs RunPod vs Lambda vs SiliconFlow
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
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Modal
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Modal
Competitor 1
RunPod
RunPod
Competitor 2
Lambda
Lambda
Competitor 3
SiliconFlow
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Competitor
SiliconFlow
siliconflow.com
You're building an AI app and need to run inference without spinning up your own GPU servers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
972.8Kvisits/mo
2.8Mvisits/mo
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427.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 5.7%
▲ 14.2%
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▼ 35.5%
6-month growth
+13.6%
+19.0%
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+5.4%
Global rank web
#43,856
#19,060
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#65,186
Avg. last 3 months
960K
2.5M
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540.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
32%
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40%
Pages / visit
6.6
7.4
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4.7
Visit duration
5m 31s
8m 19s
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1m 43s
Traffic sources
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
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● Direct 85% · ● Referral 14%
ModalRunPodLambdaSiliconFlow
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$250per month · free tier available
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Plans
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
On-demand instances (8x GPU) CustomOn-demand instances (1x GPU) Custom1-Click Clusters CustomReserved / Superclusters Custom
Serverless Pay-per-use VariableReserved GPUsElastic GPUs
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
CodeData
CodeData
CodeImagesText
Output
Apps
Apps
Apps
CodeImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
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6
GPU infrastructure
Developer tools
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Cloud infrastructure
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LLM development
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Performance optimization
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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.