Dataiku vs Modal

Dataiku — Application · Private · $3.7B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Modal — Infrastructure · Private · $466M raised · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldDataikuModal
Size$3.7B valuation$466M raised different basis
Employees1,250—
Founded2013—
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Infrastructure service, PlatformDeveloper tool, Infrastructure service
HeadquartersNew York, USANew York, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Model inferenceModel trainingWorkflow automation

Not verified for Modal · 5

Agent orchestrationData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safety

Recorded for Dataiku. Modal’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Dataiku · 2

GPU cloudModel hosting

Recorded for Modal. Dataiku’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Dataiku

Infrastructure service

Dataiku Agent ManagementInfrastructure service

Cross-platform governance product that discovers every AI agent an enterprise is running -- on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure Foundry, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Databricks, Snowflake Cortex, n8n or Dataiku itself -- measures each agent's business and technical performance, and flags the ones that pose the greatest risk. Announced 2026-09-24; distinct from Dataiku Agent Hub, which creates and operationalizes agents rather than discovering and governing agents built anywhere.

Dataiku LLM Guard ServicesInfrastructure service

Control layer over the Dataiku LLM Mesh that caps LLM spend, screens prompts and outputs for sensitive or malicious content, and scores model output quality.

Dataiku LLM MeshInfrastructure service

Centralised gateway that routes, meters and governs an organisation's connections to multiple LLM providers from inside the Dataiku platform.

Modal

Infrastructure service

ModalInfrastructure service

Serverless GPU compute: a Python decorator puts a function on an accelerator, scales it from zero to thousands of containers and stops billing when it stops running — aimed at inference, fine-tuning and batch jobs rather than reserved clusters.

Modal BatchInfrastructure service

Batch execution of large jobs across Modal's fleet, described as one line of code on the product page.

Modal InferenceInfrastructure service

Serve, scale and optimise model inference on Modal's runtime, with sub-second cold starts and autoscaling across regions.

Modal SandboxesInfrastructure service

Isolated, instantly-started containers for running untrusted or agent-generated code at scale — the primitive behind AI app-generation products.

Modal TrainingInfrastructure service

Managed training runs on Modal's fleet, configured in Python alongside the rest of a team's code.

No counterpart

Dataiku sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Modal yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Dataiku CobuildAI agent

AI building agent that turns a business objective written in plain language into a governed Dataiku project of data pipelines, models, agents and applications rendered as an editable visual workflow.

Agent platform

Dataiku Agent HubAgent platform

Centralised control plane inside the Dataiku platform for creating, orchestrating, deploying and tracking AI agents across teams.

Dataiku E2AAgent platform

Expert-to-Agent engine that converts subject-matter-expert know-how into governed AI agents grounded in enterprise data with structured reasoning and human oversight.

Platform

DataikuPlatform

Platform for building, deploying and governing data, machine-learning and agent workflows across an organisation.

Modal sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Dataiku yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

Modal NotebooksDeveloper tool

Hosted notebooks backed by Modal's GPUs, for profiling and experimenting without provisioning a machine.