| Price from | — | $250/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 3 |
| Spec score · Model Hosting | 6.9 (#12) | 7.3 (#8) |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Istio, Knative Serving, Envoy Gateway, Envoy AI Gateway, and the vLLM runtime. | The Modal Datadog integration exports audit logs, Function logs, and container metrics to Datadog. |
| Security | The Istio integration documents mutual TLS, automatic certificate management, and fine-grained access-control and authorization policies. | Modal has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit. |
| Support | Users can get help through the documentation, the #kserve Slack channel, GitHub Discussions, and community meetings. | Starter and Team plans include access to Modal Community Slack, while Enterprise adds private Slack support and embedded ML engineering services. |
| What it does | KServe is an open-source platform for serving generative and predictive AI models on Kubernetes. | Modal is a cloud function platform for executing Python code in the cloud in seconds. |
