Vast.ai vs Lambda vs Pinecone vs Modal

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

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Vast.ai
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Lambda
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Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Vast.ai
vast.ai
Vast.ai is a GPU rental marketplace where developers and AI teams rent compute for training, fine-tuning, inference and rendering.
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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 Pinecone
pinecone.io
Vector database for AI applications
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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434.9Kvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 13.7%
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6-month growth
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-32.9%
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Global rank web
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#85,031
#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
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506.2K
960K
Bounce rate lower is better
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41%
37%
Pages / visit
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4.2
6.6
Visit duration
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2m 31s
5m 31s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 77% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
Vast.aiLambdaPineconeModal
0291.9K583.7K875.6K1.2MPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8K100K1M10MPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Paid
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
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$20per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
On-Demand GPU CustomInterruptible CustomReserved CustomSandbox $0.32/hour
On-demand instances (8x GPU) CustomOn-demand instances (1x GPU) Custom1-Click Clusters CustomReserved / Superclusters Custom
Starter FreeBuilder $20/moStandard $50/moEnterprise $500/mo
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
CodeData
DataText
Code
Output
Apps
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Data
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI 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
GPU infrastructure
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Model training
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Vector databases
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Cloud computing
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Cloud infrastructure
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Inference
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Performance optimization
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