Deploy AI services into your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account where you control the compute, networking, and complete audit trail. When enterprise procurement asks about data residency and subprocessors, your answer is simple: customer data never leaves your VPC. Convox Rack installs in minutes via Terraform, giving you HIPAA/SOC2-ready infrastructure without the vendor data processing agreements that block enterprise deals.
Serverless platforms share GPU pools across customers, leaving you competing for capacity during peak demand. With Convox, configure dedicated GPU node groups using `nvidia_device_plugin_enable=true` and provision H100s, A100s, or T4s directly from your cloud provider. Set `scale.gpu: 1` in your convox.yml and your inference containers get guaranteed GPU access—no availability lotteries, no surprise throttling.
Modal and Beam scale to zero—great for prototyping, problematic for production SLAs. Convox runs inference APIs as persistent containers with health checks at `/health` and autoscaling from `count: 1-10` based on CPU targets. Your models stay warm, latency stays predictable, and you stop paying the 2-5 second cold start tax that kills real-time inference applications.
If you've containerized for Modal, Beam, or Replicate, migration is straightforward. Create a convox.yml pointing to your existing Dockerfile, define your GPU requirements under `scale`, link a managed Postgres or Redis resource for model metadata, and run `convox deploy`. No proprietary decorators, no vendor SDK rewrites—just standard Docker containers deployed to infrastructure you own.
Serverless AI platforms excel at isolated inference endpoints but struggle with the full application stack—APIs, databases, background workers, cron jobs. Convox deploys your entire AI system: model serving, vector database connections, training pipelines via timers, and customer-facing web apps, all defined in one convox.yml and deployed together with rolling updates and automatic rollback.
Replicate and Baseten charge per-prediction pricing that explodes at scale. With Convox BYOC, you pay your cloud provider directly for EC2/GCE instances at your negotiated rates—often 50-70% less than serverless markup. Reserved instances, savings plans, and spot instances for batch inference are all available because it's your account, your billing relationship.
