fal.ai vs Modal

Production endpoints for image, video and audio models billed per call or per second

Run private models on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs with autoscaling and scale-to-zero

Inference engines tuned for diffusion and audio workloads

Run Python functions on NVIDIA GPUs without provisioning instances; cold starts in seconds

Pay for actual GPU runtime at sub-minute granularity, with scale-to-zero by default

Define environments in code, with automatic image building and caching

From T4 and L4 through A100, L40S, H100, H200 and B200