Organization

Modal

Cloud provider · Inference provider · Developer platform · New York, New York

Modal operates a cloud platform for AI and data workloads, including model inference, training and fine-tuning, batch jobs, and sandboxes for running untrusted code. Developers define workloads and hardware in Python code, and usage is billed per second.1 2 6 7

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

Key facts

Website: modal.com (external site: modal.com)
Legal name: Modal Labs, Inc.3 4
Ownership: Privately held
Legal form: Delaware corporation3 4
Headquarters: New York, New York4 2
Other documented locations: San Francisco, California2; Stockholm, Sweden2; London, United Kingdom2
Founded: Unknown
Sectors: Cloud

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Modal is a commercial hosted platform. It publishes its Python client library under the Apache License 2.0 and its example code under the MIT License. This catalog found no Modal-maintained open model or standalone open-source AI framework.8 9 5

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

Modal: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Modal Inference (external site: modal.com)	Inference service	Serverless deployment of open-source or custom models on GPUs through the Modal Python SDK and CLI, with autoscaling to zero and pay-per-use billing; new accounts receive a monthly free compute allowance.5 7	Sep 29, 2026
Modal Sandboxes (external site: modal.com)	Compute service	Isolated containers created programmatically through the Modal SDK for running AI-generated code and reinforcement-learning rollouts, billed per second for CPU, memory, and GPU use.6	Sep 29, 2026

Related open artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

No open-artifact records in this catalog list Modal. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Modal Labs, Inc. is a Delaware corporation per its customer agreement. Its Form D filed with the SEC on August 31, 2026 gives a principal place of business in New York, New York, and its company page lists New York City first among offices in New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, and London.3 4 2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Modal: The platform for production AI (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
Company | Modal (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Terms of Service | Modal (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · published May 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Modal Labs, Inc. Form D (Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities) (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Modal Labs, Inc.) · Filing · published Aug 31, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Inference: Serve, scale, and optimize any model | Modal (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Sandboxes: Isolated environments for reinforcement learning and AI agents | Modal (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
Pricing: Pay per second for GPUs and CPUs | Modal (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
modal-labs/modal-client LICENSE (external site: github.com)
Modal · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026
9.
modal-labs/modal-examples LICENSE (external site: github.com)
Modal · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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