RunPod vs Lambda vs Modal vs SiliconFlow

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

Your tool
RunPod
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Competitor 1
Lambda
Competitor 2
Modal
Competitor 3
SiliconFlow
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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 Lambda
lambda.ai
Lambda is a GPU cloud built for training and serving AI models.
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Competitor SiliconFlow
siliconflow.com
You're building an AI app and need to run inference without spinning up your own GPU servers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
2.8Mvisits/mo
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972.8Kvisits/mo
427.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.2%
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▲ 5.7%
▼ 35.5%
6-month growth
+19.0%
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+13.6%
+5.4%
Global rank web
#19,060
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#43,856
#65,186
Avg. last 3 months
2.5M
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960K
540.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
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37%
40%
Pages / visit
7.4
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6.6
4.7
Visit duration
8m 19s
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5m 31s
1m 43s
Traffic sources
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
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● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 85% · ● Referral 14%
RunPodLambdaModalSiliconFlow
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 · 972.8KSiliconFlow · 311KSiliconFlow · 286.8KSiliconFlow · 302.2KSiliconFlow · 406KSiliconFlow · 468.1KSiliconFlow · 434.2KSiliconFlow · 530.5KSiliconFlow · 662.9KSiliconFlow · 427.8K100K1M10MRunPod · 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 · 972.8KSiliconFlow · 311KSiliconFlow · 286.8KSiliconFlow · 302.2KSiliconFlow · 406KSiliconFlow · 468.1KSiliconFlow · 434.2KSiliconFlow · 530.5KSiliconFlow · 662.9KSiliconFlow · 427.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
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$250per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
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
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Serverless Pay-per-use VariableReserved GPUsElastic GPUs
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeData
CodeData
Code
CodeImagesText
Output
Apps
Apps
Apps
CodeImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
4
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6
GPU infrastructure
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LLM development
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Performance optimization
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