Modal vs Thinking Machines Tinker vs Cerebrium vs Baseten

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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Thinking Machines Tinker
Competitor 2
Cerebrium
Competitor 3
Baseten
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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 Thinking Machines Tinker
thinkingmachines.ai
A training API that hands control of model fine-tuning to researchers while someone else deals with the servers and scaling headaches
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Competitor Cerebrium
cerebrium.ai
Cerebrium is a serverless GPU platform for running AI workloads in production.
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Competitor Baseten
baseten.co
Models to production fast
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
972.8Kvisits/mo
1.1Mvisits/mo
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355.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 5.7%
▲ 181.3%
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▲ 21.3%
6-month growth
+13.6%
+372.8%
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+73.3%
Global rank web
#43,856
#55,584
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#113,597
Avg. last 3 months
960K
672K
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304.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
51%
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39%
Pages / visit
6.6
2.6
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4.1
Visit duration
5m 31s
1m 57s
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1m 53s
Traffic sources
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 15%
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 9%
ModalThinking Machines TinkerCerebriumBaseten
0291.9K583.7K875.6K1.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 421.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 345.6KThinking Machines Tinker · 223.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 298.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 303.2KThinking Machines Tinker · 582.5KThinking Machines Tinker · 375.9KThinking Machines Tinker · 1.1MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4K100K1M10MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 421.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 345.6KThinking Machines Tinker · 223.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 298.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 303.2KThinking Machines Tinker · 582.5KThinking Machines Tinker · 375.9KThinking Machines Tinker · 1.1MBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$250per month · free tier available
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$100per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Inkling-Small Prefill $0.58/usage-basedInkling-Small Sample $0.12/usage-basedVarious Model Training Custom/usage-based
Hobby FreeStandard $100/moEnterprise Custom
Basic CustomPro CustomEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
CodeData
Code
AudioText
Output
Apps
Text
Apps
AudioImagesText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Developer tools
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Development
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Fine-Tuning
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GPU infrastructure
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LLM development
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Web service deployment
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Performance optimization
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