Serverless GPUs Compared: Modal vs RunPod vs Baseten vs Replicate

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• What you need to know Serverless GPU platforms occupy the tier between the two options every AI team already understands.
• Below them sit managed model APIs — you buy tokens from a model somebody else runs and you cannot change.
• Above them sits self-hosted infrastructure — your own GPU nodes, your own serving stack, your own autoscaler, and a bill that arrives whether anyone used the product or not.