COMPARE / GROTTE / MODAL

GROTTE vs Modal.

Modal is the GPU-first compute platform behind Cognition, Lovable, and you.com. GROTTE doesn't compete on H100s - it competes on EU residency, prebuilt sovereign agents, and a managed BYOM key vault.

GROTTEModal

Data residencyFR-PAR / Scaleway / EU only
US-centric / multi-cloud
Primary use caseAgent sandboxes (Claude Code, aider, opencode)
GPU inference + training + batch
Cold start< 300 ms (Firecracker microVM)
Sub-second (claimed for containers)
Pricing modelTiered + usage
Per-second by resource (CPU, GPU, memory)
Free tier100 sandbox-hours / month
$30 / month free compute
GPU supportNot the GROTTE focus - partner with Mistral / Scaleway
B200 / H200 / H100 / A100 / L40S
BYOM vaultBuilt-in / AES-256 / 9 providers
Secrets are env vars (no managed vault)
Agent templates8 sovereign-AI agents pre-built
BYO Docker image
EU complianceEU-native / Art. 28 DPA / Scaleway sub-processor
DPA available / US-controller

Boot time / live

FR-PAR / synthetic probe / last 24 h

P50…

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EU sovereignty

Their data residency: US (San Francisco) / AWS / GCP / Oracle.

Inference in Paris. Data in Paris. DPA in Paris.

Migration recipe

Swap Modal for GROTTE in one diff.

Before / Modal

# Modal
import modal

app = modal.App("hello")

@app.function()
def hello() -> str:
    return "Hello from Modal"

with app.run():
    print(hello.remote())

After / GROTTE

# GROTTE
from grotte import Sandbox

sbx = Sandbox.create("base")
result = sbx.commands.run("echo 'Hello from GROTTE'")
print(result.stdout)
sbx.kill()

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