# Vercel vs Modal

Both sit in the runtime & deploy layer with similar commercial terms, so the practical split is language: Vercel targets TypeScript and Modal targets Python.

| | Vercel | Modal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Languages | TypeScript | Python |
| Install | npm i -g vercel | pip install modal |
| Keys required | None | MODAL_TOKEN_ID, MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET |

## Full pages

- https://newagent.build/c/vercel
- https://newagent.build/c/modal

## Machine interfaces

- `GET https://newagent.build/api/registry` — every component as JSON
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/vendors` — vendors, with the repo and releases feed to watch
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/advise?q=<plain english>` — recommended stack for a description
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/stack?<layer>=<id>&format=sh|json|md|yml|agents|env` — a stack as files
- `GET https://newagent.build/llms.txt` — the whole registry in one fetch

Any page here also returns markdown if you send `Accept: text/markdown`.