Organization

Modal

Modal is a cloud and inference provider headquartered in New York, New York4 2. No open models or tools from Modal are in this catalog yet; its documented products are listed below.

Documented roles: Cloud provider · Inference provider · Developer platform

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 Oct 1, 2026

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Key facts

Website: modal.com (external site: modal.com)
Legal name: Modal Labs, Inc.3 4
Ownership (separate from openness): Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
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

Cataloged artifacts

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

What this catalog does not know

Unknown means the sources reviewed for this record do not document it. It is not evidence that something does not exist.

Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.

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U.S. eligibility

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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

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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
10.
Official careers section and application links (external site: modal.com)
Modal · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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@misc{usasi_modal,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Modal},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/modal/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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