Modal for Academic Labs

Modal is the fastest way for researchers to develop tomorrow's cutting-edge AI models and machine learning methods. Instantly deploy experiments on the most powerful GPUs with just a few lines of code. Iterate faster with Modal.

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Why Choose Modal for Your Research?

Program Credits

Unlock up to $10k* of credits to be used on Modal to supercharge your project

Instant GPU Access

Run workloads on B200s, H100s, and more without requesting quota

Pay As You Compute

Modal provisions and scales GPUs as needed, and you only pay for what you use

Iterate Faster

Modal's developer-first Python API and sub-second container starts let you iterate faster than ever

Stay Unblocked

Run massive experiments when you need to on state-of-the-art infrastructure

Research Support

Direct access to the Modal team of engineers and PhDs for research support

Check out our Use Cases

Language Models

Image, Video, 3D

Audio Processing

Fine-Tuning

Batch Processing

Sandboxed Code

Computational Bio

Language Models

Image, Video, 3D

Audio Processing

Fine-Tuning

Batch Processing

Sandboxed Code

Computational Bio

“Verifying an LLM-based approach that relies on test-time compute can be challenging to scale. Through collaboration with ARC Prize, the MIT + Cornell team partnered with Modal, a company that provides high-performance AI infrastructure, to provide both credits and infrastructure to make this possible. Huge thanks Modal for working with us to spin up an environment that efficiently ran the MIT/Cornell model for verification.”

Kevin Ellis & Zenna Tavares, Researchers

“Check out Tokasaurus on Modal to make Llama-1B brrr! This repeated sampling example shows off two engine features that are important for serving small models: very low CPU overhead and automatic shared prefix exploitation with Hydragen.”

Jordan Juravsky, Researcher

How it works

1. Apply through the form below

2. Credits are distributed over 1 year and do not roll over

3. Credits are automatically applied towards compute usage - not subscription fees

4. Credits are granted once per research project

5. Educators looking to use Modal to teach a course - please reach out to academics@modal.com