Modal
Modal is a serverless cloud for AI, data, and general compute. Developers define infrastructure as code in Python (with JavaScript and Go SDKs) and run functions, GPUs, sandboxes, web endpoints, cron jobs, and volumes on demand. The primary developer interface is the Modal SDK and CLI communicating with a gRPC backend, not a conventional first-party REST API. User-deployed Modal Functions can be exposed as HTTPS web endpoints (@modal.fastapi_endpoint / asgi_app / wsgi_app / web_server) on *.modal.run, and Sandboxes can expose ports via network tunnels.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Modal the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Modal scores 36.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Modal
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Modal. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Modal Functions and Remote Invocation
Decorate Python functions with @app.function to run them remotely on Modal's cloud. Invoke deployed functions synchronously (.remote), asynchronously (.spawn), in parallel (.map...
Modal Volumes
Distributed, high-performance file system volumes for sharing state across functions and containers, managed via modal.Volume in the SDK and the `modal volume` CLI. Read/write, ...
Modal Dicts and Queues
Distributed key-value store (modal.Dict) and distributed queue (modal.Queue) for passing state and messages between functions and containers. Accessed exclusively through the SD...
Modal Secrets
Securely inject environment variables and credentials into functions and sandboxes via modal.Secret, managed in the dashboard, CLI, or SDK (Secret.from_name / from_dict). SDK/CL...
Modal Cron and Scheduled Functions
Run functions on a recurring schedule using modal.Period or modal.Cron passed to @app.function(schedule=...). Schedules are declared in code and managed through deployment; ther...
Modal Images and GPU
Define container images programmatically with modal.Image (from_registry, debian_slim, pip_install, run_commands) and attach GPUs by passing gpu= (T4, L4, A10, L40S, A100, H100,...
Modal CLI
The `modal` command-line interface for deploying apps, running functions, tailing logs, managing volumes/secrets/dicts, and launching shells. Wraps the same gRPC control plane t...
Modal Modal Web Endpoints (Representative) API
The Modal Web Endpoints (Representative) API from Modal — 2 operation(s) for modal web endpoints (representative).
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Modal Web Endpoints (Representative)
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Modal Labs Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Modal Labs Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Modal — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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