# Modal

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/modal-com/  
**Website:** https://modal.com  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Modal is a serverless cloud platform for AI and data workloads. Modal lets developers write ordinary Python and run it on remote GPUs and CPUs with sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, and declarative container images. The platform's primitives — Functions, Sandboxes, Volumes, Images, Secrets, Dicts, Queues, Schedules, and Web Endpoints — cover inference, fine-tuning, multi-node training, batch processing, agent code execution, and HTTP/web APIs. Modal sells per-second metered compute across the full NVIDIA GPU lineup (T4 → B200) under Starter, Team, and Enterprise plans. Modal Labs raised a $355M Series C in 2026 and is used in production by Decagon, Runway, Physical Intelligence, Suno, Chai Discovery, Lovable, Quora, Reducto, and many others.

## Kin Score — 66.8 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 66.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 63.3 |
| Governance | 68.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 68.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 92.1 |

## Agent readiness — 32.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (17)

- **Modal Apps API** — Modal App lifecycle.
- **Modal Dicts API** — Distributed key-value stores.
- **Modal Environments API** — Modal workspace environments.
- **Modal Execution API** — Process execution inside sandboxes.
- **Modal Files API** — Volume file operations.
- **Modal Filesystem API** — Sandbox filesystem operations.
- **Modal Functions API** — Modal Function definitions, invocations, and scaling.
- **Modal Images API** — Container image specifications and builds.
- **Modal Invocations API** — Asynchronous function invocations and result retrieval.
- **Modal Queues API** — Distributed FIFO queues.
- **Modal Sandboxes API** — Sandbox lifecycle and management.
- **Modal Schedules API** — Scheduled function executions.
- **Modal Secrets API** — Encrypted environment-variable secrets.
- **Modal Tokens API** — Modal API tokens.
- **Modal Volumes API** — Volume lifecycle.
- **Modal WebEndpoints API** — HTTP/ASGI/WSGI web endpoints backed by Modal Functions.
- **Modal Workspaces API** — Modal workspaces.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Modal Com Agentic Access** — 56 operations · 28 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Modal Com Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Modal Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Modal Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Serverless, GPU, Cloud Compute, AI Infrastructure, Sandboxes, Inference, Training, Batch Processing, Python, TypeScript, Go

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/modal-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.