RunPod vs CometAPI vs WaveSpeedAI vs Modal

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

Your tool
RunPod
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CometAPI
Competitor 2
WaveSpeedAI
Competitor 3
Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor WaveSpeedAI
wavespeed.ai
WaveSpeedAI is a media generation platform that puts more than 1,000 image, video, audio, 3D and language models behind one API key.
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
2.8Mvisits/mo
302.3Kvisits/mo
1.9Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.2%
▲ 9.9%
▼ 3.0%
▲ 5.7%
6-month growth
+19.0%
-16.5%
-8.5%
+13.6%
Global rank web
#19,060
#157,147
#25,205
#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
2.5M
295.7K
1.9M
960K
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
46%
38%
37%
Pages / visit
7.4
2.9
5.3
6.6
Visit duration
8m 19s
38s
5m 10s
5m 31s
Traffic sources
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
RunPodCometAPIWaveSpeedAIModal
0701.3K1.4M2.1M2.8MRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KWaveSpeedAI · 894.5KWaveSpeedAI · 1.4MWaveSpeedAI · 1.7MWaveSpeedAI · 1.8MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MModal · 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 · 2.8MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KWaveSpeedAI · 894.5KWaveSpeedAI · 1.4MWaveSpeedAI · 1.7MWaveSpeedAI · 1.8MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MModal · 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
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
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$4per month · free tier available
Free tier
$250per month · free tier available
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Plans
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreePay-as-you-go $0.00/usage-based
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataCode
TextImages
TextVideoImages
Code
Output
Apps
VideoTextImages
3DAudioImagesTextVideo
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeImage GenerationVideo CreationAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
4
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4
6
APIs
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Developer tools
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GPU infrastructure
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Image generation
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Video generation
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Development
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LLM gateway
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API integrations
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Cloud infrastructure
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Image to video
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Inference
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Performance optimization
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